Sentences with phrase «priesthood as my vocation»

By the time I was twenty - one, I had never tasted alcohol, I had finished college, I was married, and I had decided on the priesthood as my vocation and career.

Not exact matches

Perhaps, so far in this talk, you've been waiting for me to be more specific about the different types of vocation, such as priesthood, religious life, marriage and the single life.

I attended as a freelance journalist, loosely connected with a group organised by our diocesan Director of Vocations and including a number of young men training for the priesthood.

After education at St Ignatius School in Stamford Hill he pursued his oft felt vocation to the priesthood at St Cuthbert's College in Ushaw, and afterwards at the Venerable English College in Rome as a student for the Diocese of Brentwood.

As for all those African vocations, well, «the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.»

Catholicism holds its own so far as membership ticker tapes are concerned, but no one doubts the extent of the crisis reflected in disastrously declining mass attendance and vocations to priesthood and religious orders, to say nothing of the crises of faith and meaning that go with these other declines.

But perhaps it is better to leave priest and layman to fulfill their vocations without mixing them; meanwhile, the Trappist monk going from the altar to milk the cows may serve to represent the principle that no honorable labor is unbefitting the priesthood as such.