tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post538072260306599958..comments2024-03-12T07:54:08.013+00:00Comments on Offerimus Tibi Domine: Seminary at Ushaw could be full!Fr Simon Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-72920328249870153762011-06-11T18:12:40.256+01:002011-06-11T18:12:40.256+01:00Oi! I was in theological study in the late 60s. ...Oi! I was in theological study in the late 60s. I was in an order, restrictions but no con life.<br />naI doubt that the open dating, some homosexual relationships and even a pregnancy were unusual. I got out for reasons of odd, or oddly presented doctrine. I got sane, eventually.<br />e bout the buildings. How the hell can bishops allow unused hoouses of worship to be so rudely treated. There are rgulations, I believ, about secularisiation of a blesse or conserted Church. England must have private security firms to proet against <br />andals.<br /><br />The Rev. Michael P. Forbes<br />Rochester, MN USAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-73523547771083770272011-06-11T00:35:08.314+01:002011-06-11T00:35:08.314+01:00There was a rector of Allen Hall who preferred his...There was a rector of Allen Hall who preferred his students to have 'sown their oats' prior to arrival. The rector has since gone to prison. At his trial, many of his former charges testified to get his sentence reduced.Sadie Vacantisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823532366874114366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-74243705388237155122011-06-10T22:23:50.082+01:002011-06-10T22:23:50.082+01:00It is unbelievable that a candidate should be turn...It is unbelievable that a candidate should be turned down for being "too orthodox". What is happening in the Church?<br /><br />I have long suspected that what amounts to a Relativist Reformation afflicted the Catholic Church in the post-Vatican 11 period, and I think we are just waking up to this and the fact that in some areas, and some seminaries, the Reformers are still at work.Jacobinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-57614381109963768262011-06-10T19:05:38.117+01:002011-06-10T19:05:38.117+01:00A priest acquaintance of mine was eventually ordai...A priest acquaintance of mine was eventually ordained in his 30s, in spite of having felt he had a vocation since boyhood. I understand he was consistently rejected as a seminarian because he had not known a woman (in the biblical sense). You couldn't make it up.<br /><br />He persevered, and with a change of bishop he was finally accepted and I was privileged to be at his ordination five years later. I recently met, entirely by coincidence, one of his parishioners who sang his praises with enthusiasm. <br /><br />Another young man I know was told by a priest friend, on entering the seminary, that he should keep his head down, an allusion to his love of traditional liturgy. He eventually left, for reasons which it would be inappropriate to repeat.<br /><br />These tales can no doubt be repeated again and again. It is little wonder that Ushaw is closing.Mater marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589638988003289809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-68928023297112272052011-06-10T17:48:19.819+01:002011-06-10T17:48:19.819+01:00I also think some people have a vocation to offer ...I also think some people have a vocation to offer themselves, like St BJ Labre. <br />They might be turned down again and again and never offer the Sublime Sacrifice but simply be willing to offer themselves to God for him to use or not in whatever way He chooses.<br /><br />But I am sure that many young men would offer themselves if they felt they would be taken seriously, and might "fit in" and not be laughed out of the parish priest's or vocation director's office.<br /><br />Liberalism is the great threat to vocations, orthodox dioceses flourish. Liberal one's die on the vine. Compare Toowawomba to Sydney or Frejus-Toulon with pretty well any other French diocese. Trad monastries with the more lax.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.com