Hey Ya'll,
I really need some help, I'm in the the middle of finals and my vocation is really getting to me. I'm currently a religious brother-seminarian for a community and living in the Midwest. I'm sorry keeping it vague because of potential superior issues. I'm pretty much discerned that I'm not called to this community and that I should be going back to my home archdiocese.
The problem is I'm from the Archdiocese of Chicago and I would have to go to Mundelein, part of the reason I entered my religious community was because of the fear I had of that place. I'm traditional, I like cassocks, Gregorian chant, Latin in mass, and both forms of the Latin rite.
I well know the Archdioceses is a mess and most Catholics would hate a priest acting or looking like a priest but is there any hope of the Traditional coming back to Mundelein? I feel I'm called more now to diocesan life after my experience with my community which was not bad; just not for me. I have never seen a priest in the archdioceses in a cassock. I need advice or names or something to help me figure out if I should make the jump and not just being setup to be fed to the wolves.
Lastly, please don't give me comment like if you were called, you can make it anywhere....I know that and I know a few guys that had priestly vocations crushed by a horrific seminary experience and a few that are broken priests now because of what they went through; not necessarily because of Mundelein just an overall example.
Please help me! Also, pray I pass this final tomorrow with my head spinning.
God Bless.
CD
I really need some help, I'm in the the middle of finals and my vocation is really getting to me. I'm currently a religious brother-seminarian for a community and living in the Midwest. I'm sorry keeping it vague because of potential superior issues. I'm pretty much discerned that I'm not called to this community and that I should be going back to my home archdiocese.
The problem is I'm from the Archdiocese of Chicago and I would have to go to Mundelein, part of the reason I entered my religious community was because of the fear I had of that place. I'm traditional, I like cassocks, Gregorian chant, Latin in mass, and both forms of the Latin rite.
I well know the Archdioceses is a mess and most Catholics would hate a priest acting or looking like a priest but is there any hope of the Traditional coming back to Mundelein? I feel I'm called more now to diocesan life after my experience with my community which was not bad; just not for me. I have never seen a priest in the archdioceses in a cassock. I need advice or names or something to help me figure out if I should make the jump and not just being setup to be fed to the wolves.
Lastly, please don't give me comment like if you were called, you can make it anywhere....I know that and I know a few guys that had priestly vocations crushed by a horrific seminary experience and a few that are broken priests now because of what they went through; not necessarily because of Mundelein just an overall example.
Please help me! Also, pray I pass this final tomorrow with my head spinning.
God Bless.
CD