What is the easiest path to heaven? How do you know what is your vocation? Should you check out religious life first? Please say 3 Hail Marys for the priest
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@bonifamanlover8 жыл бұрын
I think this is one of the better videos on discernment. Thank you father. I pray for in increase in priest and religious vocations.
@genevieveaugustin31163 жыл бұрын
I really love this..discerning a religious vocation and this has left me with so much of peace
@rntrinity41364 жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a wonderful explanation. I have been having this thought all through my life ... Yet am so scared to accept.. Now I can make my move... Thank you.. I'm already 28yrs with a degree and licences as a Nurse practitioner.. The thought of religious life keeps coming especially when am in state of grace.. I'm already confused but now I know what to do...
@neoskyoyo4 жыл бұрын
I hope you are doing well in your discernment process. Find a spiritual director who can guide you on this path.
@jannavarro53643 жыл бұрын
I am thinking of trying it. I have been in my work for 10yrs. Did you try it and how did it work out?
@iacobusmonsi36452 жыл бұрын
@Gangari TheWanderer What exactly is the difference of monk, hermit, secular, and religious priest? Thanks
@deooptimomaximo98433 жыл бұрын
Lol. I'm almost 28 and I'm trying to figure out what God wants from me.
@godwin31017 ай бұрын
I am 26 and I am finding out too
@fernanda75844 ай бұрын
37 here and still trying to figure it out 😅
@deooptimomaximo98434 ай бұрын
@@fernanda7584 I'm 30 going on 31 now. I think I'm gonna try priesthood. But still don't fully know. Hahaha all the best with your discerning
@carloslugo5057 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this crucial sermon.
@dorianlelong2 жыл бұрын
Here is the best advice I got on vocations: if considering the priesthood, do you think you would like to hear confessions and say Mass? Do you like to serve Mass? If not, then one probably does not have the vocation. So, do you like doing the things associated with the vocation? It seems utterly obvious, but it actually isn't.
@avecrux3334 жыл бұрын
Superb sermon, filled with supernatural wisdom. Thank you.
@dragonfruit65323 жыл бұрын
One of the best homilies I’ve heard in a long time ❤️
@SevenDeMagnus5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Fr.
@craigw49675 жыл бұрын
Im drunk and confused. I had years of sobriety and feel God is calling me but im afraid. I want to be a saint but im scared. I relapsed and im so tangled up in the modern world. Help me.
@anthonypalmer6645 жыл бұрын
Craig Wallace pray the rosary brother. It is a powerful weapon against vice. I will include you in my next rosary’s intentions.
@zaneknowlton4 жыл бұрын
Anthony Palmer couldn’t agree more the rosary is key
@neoskyoyo4 жыл бұрын
How are you now?
@craigw49674 жыл бұрын
@@neoskyoyo Hey im glad you asked, ill be 10 months clean in a few days. Im very involved in the sacraments and my recovery program aswell. My local priest has set up perpetual adoration close to my place so im there a few times a week, aswell as daily rosary. I feel im exactly where i need to be 😌 . God bless you guys.
@dwong92893 жыл бұрын
That’s great news man. Very inspiring to hear how the faith is helping you. The rosary one of the greatest spiritual weapons we have.
@Angel2682013 жыл бұрын
I’ve learned more in a year and of half of KZbin videos than 10 years of Catholic school. That’s horrible!
@berylbroughton87235 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and easy to understand. Excellent explanation about humility and pride. Thank you so much for this upload!
@geekwithlightsaber60764 жыл бұрын
Amazing sermont ✝️
@user-lg4zi2sx7i5 жыл бұрын
This priest use to be the pastor at the chapel I went to but he moved to a new chapel .
@arthuraskey81542 жыл бұрын
'I cannot speak about being humble and be humble at the same time.' Anon.
@johnwallace75802 жыл бұрын
DEO GRATIAS AMEN
@vanessabaquera51224 жыл бұрын
What readings were used for this homily?
@tatianasouza2361 Жыл бұрын
Great sermon. The only thing I did not agree with was the part that said that young people should not share with their parents their intentions to pursue a religious life. I believe that parents should be involved in every important aspect of their children’s lives. If parents cannot handle that responsibility well, it is their problem because as parents, we must support and encourage our children’s decisions without interference.
@leesog320311 ай бұрын
That was spoken by a Saint. Which is some heavenly wisdom :)
@bossjojieservan54566 жыл бұрын
I am looking for a congregation where I can discern my vocation to religious life or priestly life
@archsword24466 жыл бұрын
Jojie Servan try Augustinians or Camillians or the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross who have deep devotions to the guardian angels.
@bossjojieservan54566 жыл бұрын
How can I be in touch with them?
@archsword24466 жыл бұрын
Jojie Servan Prayer and Google
@rockybarookie81546 жыл бұрын
You can also consider becoming a Benedictine Priest is also good vocation, you can also become a church militant a defender of the faith and an exorcist is also a strong vocation
@iacobusmonsi36452 жыл бұрын
What exactly is the difference of monk, hermit, secular, and religious priest? Thanks
@ivanspaziano19772 жыл бұрын
Honestly I've found nothing beautiful in solitude life in monastery or inside stuff like that, I've really feeled much more peace in the world, but without being of the world, in doing prayers and take Sacraments, than in seminary or religious monstery, there's no happiness at all in chastity, be poor without nothing and closed on solitude, also I've found the opposite of realization in life, in helping others etc etc prayers are consolations but I've found only pain in what you call, beauty of religious life.
@Chadlifter4 ай бұрын
Its not for everybody
@lizavaz30425 ай бұрын
I pray so much to get fr rob get married please advise me
@alexanto23732 жыл бұрын
I struggle to discern my vocation
@Chadlifter4 ай бұрын
What about the priesthood?
@maritamuras89787 ай бұрын
I’ve been struggling with my vocation for 11 or 12 years. I really want to get married, but I feel like God is playing one big joke on me and that by the time I know my vocation it will be too late. Every time I think it’s supposed to be marriage, a seed of doubt is planted in me. I’ve been on retreats and have prayed about it. The only thing I haven’t done is having ongoing conversations with my own spiritual director. When I tried to find one, my parish priest was suggested, but I’d really rather have this conversation with a woman just like a man is probably more comfortable with a man. They said they would get back to me but never did. Other women understand other women’s struggles. I don’t know how to know once and for all. My biological clock is ticking. What if trying to discern my vocation is going to be the thing that keeps me from ever having children? I feel like by the time I figure this out and my vocation is marriage, I’ll be old and unattractive, and no decent man my age will want me. I can’t be the only person who has this struggle.
@kn-xm1ij4 ай бұрын
Would highly recommend a spiritual director, even if you may have to travel a bit to get to them. A priest would be best but not a must, someone who you can open up to and is holy themselves. Discerning religious life is scary as you are putting your whole life and future on stake. Trusting in the Lord’s plans for you (He has only the best for you because only He knows you best, as your Creator) is key. I think you can’t really tell if something is for you or not until you experience it- after discussing with your spiritual director, if he recommends it, then take a leap of faith, telling the Lord that you are doing this for Him and not yourself. If religious life is not your vocation, God will take you out of it for the sake of your true vocation, as long as you remain receptive - He knows your biological clock more than anyone else. And your time in the convent will most certainly not be wasted- it will only make you a better wife / woman and will give you the confidence and peace that you have at least a gave it a hard shot. Nothing is impossible to God. He sees you and only wants you to surrender to Him for your greater happiness. You are in my prayers!!
@jk41shadow2 жыл бұрын
My only question is what you do when you refuse your vocation? You dont want to accept it as your vocation.
@jasonhaiflich896718 күн бұрын
Then obtaining Heaven will be extremely difficult, but still possible
@Warjridarrel7 күн бұрын
@@jasonhaiflich8967going to Heaven is God's gift, it's not something we have to earn
@paulgibbons23203 жыл бұрын
Humility, servitude. Careful whom you serve. By serving them you endorse them. Pride comes before a fall. 'Is that because the church will try to bring you to your knees? '
@lunalee30215 ай бұрын
"Religious orders are the most superior vocation, we are all obligated to first discern whether we are called to this." Does it ever sound life Fr. Ripperger just makes things up as he goes along? This really bothers me. So many of his videos are like this, giving the impression of church teaching when it's his opinion.
@johnf6002Ай бұрын
No commentary on what you said but that’s not Fr. Ripperger.
@jasonhaiflich896718 күн бұрын
It’s objectively a higher calling
@chrisobrien62547 ай бұрын
Choose what you want (deep down) and if you don’t like it then choose something that you like even better. Hard stuff I know 🤪
@Chadlifter4 ай бұрын
Bad advice
@chrisobrien62544 ай бұрын
@@Chadlifter how to do you figure?? 🤨🤨
@Cpripri855 жыл бұрын
I'm struggling to leave my gf to join the Benidictines.
@avecrux3334 жыл бұрын
This life is so short, and -- as Saint Paul says -- the sorrows of married life raising children in today's world are very real. On the other hand, the incredible joy and liberty which come from belonging totally to God can never be compared to human love, and is the more beautiful vocation if God is calling you to it. *You need to go on a retreat.* Because as long as you continue in the company of your girlfriend the attachment will so blind you that you will not be able to discern clearly whether God is calling you to religious life. I'll pray for you.
@neoskyoyo4 жыл бұрын
Try going on a retreat where you can pray in silence and talk to a spiritual director.
@eduardoschiavon56524 жыл бұрын
If that's the case I think you should not go to the monastery just yet. Nowadays the idea of vocation is quite badly explained. Many people think that it amounts to having an almost romantic attraction to that specific state of life. That's not very in line with the tradition of the Church, however. In other times, men looked at a religious life mostly as an objective choice they made assuming that the grace of God was working within them. It is a safer path to a vocation, one that is objectively deliberated, than one that is subjectively determined, based largely on emotions. Having said that, once we have an initial disposition for a consecrated life, we must conform our actions to that. It is reasonable to say that a man that will have to live a chaste life once he becomes a religious, should already be detached from things that lead him away from that before entering the congregation. Moreover, if one doesn't have an intent of marrying, one should not enter in a relationship with a woman, so that both the will of becoming a religious is preserved and so that we don't harm the other with false promises. Any romantic relationship should always have its goal to culminate in married life, otherwise it shouldn't have been started. Above all, I recommend you to seriously deliberate this with a priest, especially your spiritual director, since he will be able to give you much better advice. I also recommend you to read Father Lahitton's book on the priestly vocation.
@eduardoschiavon56524 жыл бұрын
P.s. I am not trying to be the moral authority nor the knowitall here, I just tried to give you some sincere advice on the matter as I am also deliberating a vocation and have made similar mistakes in the past.
@iacobusmonsi36452 жыл бұрын
Just a question, what exactly is the difference of monk, hermit, secular, and religious priest? Thanks