For Those Not Accepted to Seminary or Religious Life

The Poco a Poco Podcast with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Franciscan Friars of the Renewal

Christianity, Christian, Pilgrimage, Catholic, Franciscan, Spirituality, Faith, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt rejected by God or the church, as you try to get into religious life?

This can be an utterly heartbreaking experience.

When faced with "No" as a response to the desire to get into religious life, one might feel that they are being rejected by God or the church, that they're undesirable, or too broken for religious life. But in reality, that is not the case.

This decision is actually a culmination of careful assessment of one's discernment, capacity, and the call they felt into religious life. This episode speaks more about that in hopes of explaining the reasons behind those decisions and encountering the hurt and vulnerable in these situations.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Poco-O-Poco podcast sponsored by Spirit Juice Studios.
0:07.0	Poco-A-Poco-Bamos A-Egaus,
0:10.0	Sommos Perigrinos and you know that's who we are we make our way. Hey I'm Father Mark Mary. Hey I'm Father Innocent. Hey I'm Father
0:15.8	B. T. And this is the Pocopoco Podcast. So as I mentioned last week, if you heard it or not,
0:21.8	this week we're to get straight into the topic because it's
0:27.4	quite specific and more sensitive than normal. And the, basically the target audience who we're hoping listens to this,
0:39.0	who are specifically addressing are probably coming to it,
0:42.0	might be coming to it pretty hurt and beat up and kind of confused.
0:47.0	And so we're kind of just kind of in reverence for that,
0:50.0	can get straight into the topic. And the topic today is just kind of speaking to and kind of explaining a little bit more speaking to, but to those who have felt a call to religious life or to priest to seminary.
1:07.0	And when they reached out to a religious order or to a vocations director,
1:12.0	at some point received the answer no that this that
1:17.1	either our community is not for you or the seminary is not for you or or religious
1:21.9	life or priesthood in general or not for you.
1:25.0	And in my own priesthood, I've come across this,
1:31.0	I've come across this specific, not in the vocation space but in just the receiving
1:36.3	people who wanted to be sisters etc and they reached out to a religious community and they're reaching out to a religious community
1:45.1	that they like really honor and love and revere and respect and then they were told
1:50.3	after an interview they were told no and it's just such a heartbreaking experience
1:57.1	It can be very very unexpected and it can feel like you're being rejected by God you're being rejected by the church.
2:06.5	It can feel like I'm too I'm too broken for Jesus.
2:10.4	It can feel like like this thing that I've struggled with or that's happened to me that I don't like,
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