"Toxic" Mistakes about Vocations - Vocations Series #4 with Fr. McFarland

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The idea about religious vocations or vocations to the Priesthood has suffered from misconceptions, strange ideas, and just plain bad advice. In this episode, Father McFarland, Vocations Director for the SSPX US District, reviews some of the most common mistakes people make when thinking about the consecrated life.
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00:00 Introduction
00:46 What is "Toxic"?
02:04 How to choose a vocation
04:00 What is a vocations retreat?
06:07 Is it possible to miss your vocation?
08:30 Do you need a spiritual director?
09:40 Such a thing as a vocation "oracle"?
12:50 How parents can harm vocations
18:21 The feeling of rejection
20:53 When you should leave religious life
23:45 "Get to know the world first!"
25:22 "You need experience first!"
28:12 "We need good married people!"
29:42 "If you meet someone, it's a sign..."
31:29 Parental guilt syndrome
33:39 Father gives us the most "Toxic" element

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@selina8746 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! I am 22 years old and leaving for the Noviciate in January after a two year delay given by the Superiors. Hearing this was like hearing the voice of Christ. You helped me to reground myself after numerous doubts and temptations these past couple months. Deo gratias! Thank you!

@morningstarhomestead Жыл бұрын

Prayers for you 🙏

@selina8746 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Laura-dy1vc Жыл бұрын

Very well said. Strong, solid, and logical arguments. Excellent.

@blancobourne6243 Жыл бұрын

Good talk and points from Father. I have to say on the point of worldly experience, I’ve seen SSPX priests (who had become priests young) struggle to adapt to more modern/worldly issues in myself and others I knew. I do think having some sort of knowledge of the outside world is very important and many kids raised in very sheltered environments that become priests struggle when trying to navigate such foreign issues

@fabriciopinedaguilloux371 Жыл бұрын

This is where flexible actitud can change the perception. God provides the tools to adapt to a challenging world. That's where faith comes into friction to prove that is possible and be a good servant to a toxic modern church. In my case it has burned me out to join SSPX....to the point that at 51 years old I have vocation to Priesthood only to realise is been more my surroundings...I don't doubt I had it but I think is late for me already. Happy to be with a true Church. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Amen

@Titadj Жыл бұрын

Louis and Zelie Martin, Father :). Thank you for these talks. I wish I had received such sound and prudent advice 22 years ago when I was discerning a vocation to religious life. Still helpful. God bless you!

@ElCiervoVulnerado1 Жыл бұрын

I just think of all those poor guys I know who became Legionary priests because Fr. Maciel told them they had a vocation and am thankful to God that I was freed from the manipulation of my superiors telling me that I had a vocation. Thank you for this series. I will inculcate this mentality to my own children. God bless!

@user-xr7qn3rs4v Жыл бұрын

I suggest you find new friends. They were duped by an obvious fraud, who raped any body available, including his own daughter. It boggles my mind that perverts (who unmask themselves fairly quickly) are not obvious to so many gullible people. Pray the ROSARY DAILY as the Holy Virgin requests in every APPROVED apparition. Ask for Her protection, for discernment and prudence. Become consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart; you cannot go wrong if you FOLLOW the Holy Mother of God.

@barbaraaspengen9810 Жыл бұрын

Father you speak the TRUTH God will show you the way the TRUTH and the light.

@lucyfahrbach309 Жыл бұрын

Loved hearing this wonderful series. Thank you so much.

@peterdalyy3542 Жыл бұрын

How wonderful it is to see such a holy young man God bless you .and God bless your channel.

@ryanscottlogan8459 Жыл бұрын

I hope the day comes when the SSPX will revive some other wonderful Catholic Congregations like the Sisters of Charity of NY and SSND nuns.❤️

@TF80s Жыл бұрын

This is a breadth of fresh air..

@TS-ex4ql Жыл бұрын

I cannot thank you enough for this episode. Almost all of the concrete examples brought fourth in this episode have come up before both in mind and concretely. All examples and answers to common objections were presented and answered so well. Deo Gratias!

@marccrotty8447 Жыл бұрын

Father provides sound and practical direction.

@ucheebirim545 Жыл бұрын

God bless you Father

@janetplonka8110 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Fr. This was an incredible learning lesson all around God bless you

@elizabethsheplermusic Жыл бұрын

Awesome episode!! So straightforward!! The final part on Naturalism was so powerful regardless you state of life.

@michaelnovak9766 Жыл бұрын

Great to hear a young well grounded Priest premote the religious life. So many, mislead religious & lay people today .....over complicate the religious life , putting the empathsis, to much on self & the natural level, drive many away..

@christopherbates1428 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this incredible series!! I have always felt drawn to the Catholic priesthood. Alas, I have only known rejection in the N.O. I am 47 years old and still can’t shake the feeling I have a vocation to the priesthood. Is there anyway forward for someone like me? Thank you and God bless!! Please pray for me!!

@teresaoftheandes6279 Жыл бұрын

Of course there is. Pray then act.

@marianacasanuevaguiscafre1956 Жыл бұрын

"Look at Jesus Christ" what a logical and beautiful episode. Thank You!

@katmorales9447 Жыл бұрын

I have been discerning for some time and I have a strong sense I am being called to religious life. However, many obstacles are in the way. Currently, my dad has a big chance of being deported to Mexico. His case is very difficult and I am worried about my family. How would my mother pay for rent, etc? So many things come to my mind. I was going to visit another order this month coming and to a retreat but idk what to do in the moment. Is a very difficult and emotional moment. Plz pray for me.

@katmorales9447 Жыл бұрын

Also, I don't understand why concentrated life is a higher calling? Aren't they all beautiful and special?

@dasan9178 Жыл бұрын

There are always more graces in doing what God wants and then trusting AND PRAYING FERVENTLY for Jesus and Our Lady to take care of the rest. I know this from repeated experience. It comes down to how much you love and trust God. We are called to love and trust Him more than parents, siblings, spouses, children, friends, possessions, habits, feelings, etc. Jesus gave all for us holding nothing back, not even His own Mother, yet we hesitate to give our all back to Him. If you feel called, the complications an opportunity to grow in Faith.

@dasan9178 Жыл бұрын

@@katmorales9447 Not “concentrated”…CONSECRATED, one who has taken holy orders (bound him or herself to Jesus and His Church and religious life through holy vows). A life spent in prayer, penance and good works on behalf of others in imitation of Our Lord and Lady is specially blessed…and so are the earthly mothers of all such children who sincerely pursue a religious vocation.

@tracycameron5099 Жыл бұрын

Excellent as usual!

@TheBestGman04 Жыл бұрын

About the topic of 20:53, the author of The Imitation of Christ writes the following: "A certain man being in anxiety of mind, continually tossed about between hope and fear, and being on a certain day overwhelmed with grief, cast himself down in prayer before the altar in a church, and meditated within himself, saying, “Oh! if I but knew that I should still persevere,” and presently heard within him a voice from God, “And if thou didst know it, what wouldst thou do? Do now what thou wouldst do then, and thou shalt be very secure.” And straightway being comforted and strengthened, he committed himself to the will of God and the perturbation of spirit ceased, neither had he a mind any more to search curiously to know what should befall him hereafter, but studied rather to inquire what was the good and acceptable will of God, for the beginning and perfecting of every good work". (I, 25, 2)

@georgedavis2554 Жыл бұрын

The best Service is being in the service of God. All are called but few are chosen. But also chose the best through good discernment.

@alejandravelezmorales3991 Жыл бұрын

Thank you and God bless you!

@teresaoftheandes6279 Жыл бұрын

This is such a great talk. Thank you!

@mariafederle1694 Жыл бұрын

This is the best, most helpful explanation on mental prayer I have ever heard!

@bluecat5929 Жыл бұрын

thank you

@nicolasjosecorrado1788 Жыл бұрын

excellent

@clancys_creed3037 Жыл бұрын

“You cant even clean your own room you think you can be a priest” LOL my mom does the same thing but with marriage as the topic of ridicule

@user-xr7qn3rs4v Жыл бұрын

Listen to your mother and CLEAN YOUR ROOM. Pray the Rosary DAILY and ask for discernment, become consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, avoid sin and ask for the intercession of MANLY saints.

@paisley293 Жыл бұрын

St. Alphonsus de Liguori in his book 'The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection' states, "The Divine call to a more perfect life is undoubtedly a special grace. and a very great one, which God does not give to all; hence He has much reason to be indignant against those who despise it." And also: "Whenever God calls to a more perfect state, he who does not wish to expose his eternal salvation to great danger must then obey, and obey promptly. Otherwise he will hear from Jesus Christ the reproach he made to that young man who, when invited to follow Him, said, "I will follow Thee, Lord, but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house.' And Jesus replied to him that he was not fit for Paradise: "No man putting his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

@SSPX Жыл бұрын

St. Alphonsus does say these things, but in doing so, he is in disagreement with the Fathers of the Church. That the evangelical counsels are open to all: St. Basil: "It is the privilege of everyone to embrace the evangelical mode of life." St. Gregory Nazaianzen: "All men take not this word but them to whom it is given. When it is said to whom it is given, you must add that it is given to those who wish it and approve of it." St. John Chrysostom: "It is given to them who freely choose it." St. Ambrose: "There are eunuchs who have made themselves such for the kingdom of heaven; while this is not commanded to all, yet all are invited.: St. Jerome: "It is given to those who asked it, to those who wished it, to those who strove to obtain it. For everyone that asks, received, he that seeks, finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened." That there is no obligation to embrace religious life: Firstly, this turns counsel into command, which is contrary to the Church's Tradition and even her terminology. St. Basil: "The Lord did not will that the virginity be the object of a command, but that it be the ornament of a soul eager for virtue, achieving of its own free choice that which is superior to a command..." St. John Chrysostom represents God as saying, "I do not force, I do not bind. But I will happily crown him who does so, though I will not punish him who does it not." St. Cyprian: "The Lord does not command this, but counsels it." St. Thomas Aquinas' teaching on the subject follows that of the Fathers and says that one may embrace the counsels based only on the general invitation from Scripture. He nowhere menaces eternal ruin to those who do not pursue it. We could continue multiplying quotations. It seems likely that St. Alphonsus is responding to the problem of people entering religion for worldly and ignoble motives. Unfortunately, he departs from the earlier doctors and theologians, whose teaching is very clear. His teaching does not seem to have any proponents before the 16-17th century Jesuit theologian Lessius. In support of his position, St. Alphonsus could only cite the rigorists Habert and Concina. Thus, while recognizing the profound learning, sanctity, and authority of St. Alphonsus, we prefer to follow the teaching of the Fathers and St. Thomas. -Fr. McFarland

@marios8120 Жыл бұрын

St. Ligouri is the most misused and misquated (interpreted) amongst pearsons who incline spirital devitiations.

@jimsember3528 Жыл бұрын

@@SSPX Father, thank you for this answer, it is very helpful. Could you shed some light on when and how historically "choice" became "discernment"? Was this a Vatican II aberration?

@cayce3921 7 ай бұрын

@@jimsember3528 I would like to know the same thing

@barbaraaspengen9810 Жыл бұрын

Father that is so true about our lives choosing GOD is what Jesus wants because we our made in his own image and likeness. Free Will it's up to us to Love Jesus or not to.

@happy777abc Жыл бұрын

Finally, some common sense!

@luisgerardoluevanosmedina433 Жыл бұрын

Long Live MARCEL LEFEBVRE. 🙏👍💪🙏

@gogetthegoose1 Жыл бұрын

I'm 44 yrs old. I attended seminary in 2007. I left after 1 semester. I've done alot in life since then but I still seem to be searching for something fulfilling. Any spiritual advice? Thank you

@Deperuse Жыл бұрын

Go talk to an Sspx priest in person and don’t be afraid. Knock.

@user-ht9fr6eh9u Жыл бұрын

Was it novus ordo seminary?

@VictoriaLepantoFatima Жыл бұрын

What about Consecrated Virginity ? Lay vocations. Any guidance from a Priest. Thank you.

@furiat5981 Жыл бұрын

What's sspx's view on the scourge of the earth - the juice?

@gabrielleeliseo6062 Жыл бұрын

Heyyyy, us East Coast folks resent those comments. xD

@Mari-fe7wu Жыл бұрын

Can a man previously married but with a marriage annulment go to seminary and become a priest?

@christopherpavesi7245 Жыл бұрын

Have there been issues uploading these to spotify? I only see the first one posted.

@SSPX Жыл бұрын

Yes, we've had issues with the podcast hosting service for the past month. Hopefully by tomorrow they'll all be back. Thanks for your patience.

@barbaraaspengen9810 Жыл бұрын

It's like telling your self your a bad mom because you're kid wants to be a drug addict. A person has a free will so that is not for you to feel guilty about.