I'm discerning a benedictine vocation and/or the sacred priesthood. Please do pray for me!

@littlerose9941

2 жыл бұрын

🙏awe, wonderful! Praise God!! Praying for you

@ninakosi7979

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll be praying for your discernment , Jensen, God bless you

@johnpaul6983

2 жыл бұрын

Praise God! Saint Benedict pray for Jensen

@EBTchad

Жыл бұрын

Where are you now Jensen?

@Inspiration_M

Жыл бұрын

Praying for you 🙏

Serving the poor and sick Is my calling. I’m making progress in joining the Franciscans. Pray for me that my path to postulancy continues to grow and I remain faithful to our Lord

@johnpaul6983

2 жыл бұрын

Praying for you, Brother!

@Cooldogwithglasses.

22 күн бұрын

How u doing bro

I grew up around a Carmelite convent. I caught the school bus just a block away and I could see them, in their dark brown ankle length habits and black veils and rosaries on their belt. They looked like angels to me. I wasn't even Catholic then, but I became Catholic at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, now St. Francis Catholic Church in Logan, West Virginia. God bless you Father! God bless your ministry.

Disernment communities? Sign me up! Those could be so helpful. Thank you for another insightful video, Fr. Casey!

Thank you for this video. I am a Carmelite Secular having said my ‘ First Promise ‘. Twenty years ago I became a Catholic and for long time knew I was being drawn into something more than the usual activities of the parish, and I then met an amazing woman who introduced me to the Carmelite way of living. It has been wonderful journey...I am learning so much and the daily routine of prayer and reading has given structure to my daily life. I am now a widow, but amongst my group there are married people, single people, widows like me and one who is about to enter Carmel to become a nun. If you want a deeper relationship with Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit, and if you would like to know more about Carmelite Saints this sort of life could be for you. In two and a half years I will take my ‘ Final Promise ‘ Doing this study and prayer has changed my life and healed a lot of old painful memories. And it is never too late, I am 76!! God bless all of you who are reading these comments, and I pray that God’s will may be revealed to you.🙏🙏

@blindknitter

8 ай бұрын

I am feeling called to the Carmelite Third Order too. Thanks for your testimony.

Greetings from Dunedin, New Zealand. I am a Consecrated Vigin living in the world. In 2002 I was granted the Consecration according to the Roman Canon. My main area of work is prayer including the Liturgy of the Hours (Public prayer of the Church), intercessory prayer, and being a presence to and for all. I thank God for calling me to this form of Consecrated Life.

I need a flow chart for this.

@ipso-kk3ft

3 жыл бұрын

Seconded!

Im Discerning the Passionist Spirituality, particularly in the Priesthood, please pray for me

This is my calling

@scriner11

3 жыл бұрын

Than do it by all means!!! Many blessings!!!

I literally went to sleep wondering about the consecrated life outside being a priest / nun / taking " permanent " vows only to wake up to this on my feed. Thank you Fr. Casey. God has definitely used you to teach me a couple of things today and to remind me that He hears me.

St. Catherine of Siena was a third order Dominican who lived in two houses. She never married and is a doctor of the church.

I am a consecrated virgin. We don't make vows as such. We are consecrated by our diocesan bishop (may not be done by a priest), according to the solemn rite contained in the Roman Pontifical. Yes, we are virgins, and we make a resolution to remain virgins for the rest of our lives, but our consecration is passive, that is, we are consecrated by the bishop who invokes the power and grace of the Holy Spirit. This consecration, unlike vows, is irrevocable when it is conferred validly and it makes us true brides of Christ. The rite is filled with bridal imagery and it celebrates virginity given to God. The first virgins were consecrated by the apostles themselves.

@TheTijuT

3 жыл бұрын

Dear sister in Christ, may your consecration truly be a means for you to prepare yourself in the most wonderful manner to union with God. May our merciful God be with you always.

@joycestolberg4971

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTijuT Thank you.

Future Jesuit here ✝️ pray for me 🙏🌷

@juanfilip1899

3 жыл бұрын

I will pray for you 🙏

@reintaler6355

3 жыл бұрын

AMDG you've got this

Such a timely video for me! Discerning consecrated life right now, and planning on speaking to my priest about it. ✨😊✝️

@TheTijuT

3 жыл бұрын

May God bless you, and may your gift of yourself be wholly accepted by God.

If lived well, these types of lives are a sure way to heaven.

Love from Mizoram ❤️🙏

I didn’t quite understand it all. But, I feel like I am being called to a deeper spiritual commitment, and another marriage, with talents to be used for the benefit of the world. However that works, we will see. I am in RCIA, right now.

Love from kerala👍

Thank you Fr Casey for "preaching and teaching" (1 Timothy 5:17)!

Thank you Fr Casey for "preaching and teaching"

I am officially being consecrated on Wednesday feb 9th 2022 at 6pm as a consecrated virgin i first heard about this vocation on your channel thank you

That was surprisingly detailed and showed there’s a lot more diversity than I thought in the Catholic Church - and I thought I knew a lot about this! Thank you, Brother!

I’ve been looking for an explanation like this! Thank you!

Morning. I'm from Italy. 'm gonna leave for spending une year in a missionari comunity. It's from Brasile and there is a house even Gere in Italy, 1000 km from me. We work with poors, we live with them, juste like them, sharing everytjing. I'm 50, and i Nevers never exoected my life could change this way. I feel fear, and a great Joy in the same time. Please, pray for me. I promise i'll pray for tout and for all the consacrated. Peace and joy

Thank you for the video father! Most secular institutes however are not for married people. They are for unmarried people who are called to profess the Evangelical counsels and live them in the world. It is a very distinct and beautiful vocation!

Thank u Father Casey for this video, you explain things in a way, a lay person can understand.

Please pray for me I'm scared

@rosavarela7679

3 жыл бұрын

My prayers go for you.

@IONATVS

3 жыл бұрын

I will.

@ipso-kk3ft

3 жыл бұрын

"Be not afraid!" The words of Christ, also echoed by his servant, St. John Paul II!

@matt8637

3 жыл бұрын

Lord God, be with Mario Escorza. Show him that you are sovereign. Let him know your grace and truth. Give him prayers and comfort. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

@marioescorza5519

3 жыл бұрын

I'm scared of life

Great video. I love the use of "consecrated" as we in secular institutes are often not seen as distinct from religious and not understood. I have a concern. Not all Institutes involve married persons. We, The Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, do not. Our "associate group" does welcome them. They make an annual promise to embrace our attitudes of life, not vows.

@adeleredfern2606

2 жыл бұрын

I'm discerning with a secular institute called 'The Leaven' or The Institute of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. It is only for single or widowed women and we do take first and later final vows in the church to a priest and vows are binding. I am glad you wrote your comment as that was my concern too.

My 4th great grandfather was a Dominican in Baja California. Padre Gabriel Gonzalez. Originally from Spain. He successfully held off Mexican secularization efforts. Resisted occupying American forces during the Mexican-American war. Ended up as a successful rancher and parish priest. Raised a family of 11 children. He was one of two last Dominican Missionaries in Baja California.

I absolutely love learning new things about other forms of Christianity than that which I was taught.

Please pray for me I want to be a priest when I grow up and become the pope and change the world pls pray for

@catlady7183

3 жыл бұрын

Will do .never lose faith and continue praying daily

Thank you for this!

My goodness! Quite a bit to unpack here. Thanks for the explanation.

Quite interesting and necessary explanation about it.

Really enjoy your videos father Casey

Thank you for this video😭😭😭, it helped me understand and learn more than my teacher

Consecrated Virgin here! :)

@maryleeespinoza239

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Was the consecration able to be done by your priest, or maybe I saw a bishop?

@maryleeespinoza239

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I see them both. I need to ask how to get it organized. The one other person I know of was in a community though. I’ll still see if I can check with her.

My "consecrated life" has been my nursing career. I've devoted my career and life to God.

Great video. Very much limited to Roman Catholic. Eastern Catholic Churches have both western forms such as what you describe in the video and traditional Orthodox monastic forms (novice, rasophore, stavrophore and great schema). The ancient military-religious Orders (Teutonic Knights, Templars, Knights of St. John, the Spanish and Portuguese Orders, and a few others) were interesting because of the way they combined warfare and Religious life (with some even allowing married knights to be "fully" professed).

Very Interesting!!! Great job Father!!! Thank you for this!!!

Dear Father, in the apostolic live you didn't mention the prelatures like Opus Dei or the Comunnio and liberation Movement.. Can you make a video explaining about lay or secular live?

@martinkent333

3 жыл бұрын

This guy could charm the pants off of a choirboy!

@patgregory7869

3 жыл бұрын

That was a vulgar response. Sad comment .

@EXTENDEDWARRANT

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinkent333 why..

I love your videos ❣️❣️❣️

Hello I am a coptic orthodox Sister in Egypt, I am a nun in one of the very few communities that have a communal life as with a community prayer life as well as a focus on mission life.

@kk8490

3 жыл бұрын

that’s so cool! how’s it like?

@gmsgms1018

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing..The Prayer Life is the core of everything we do...I also have more than 1300 children in the school..which makes my life perfectly chaotic but very meaningful and full of joy..

@mikelastname1220

2 жыл бұрын

You can't be a "Sister" and a "Nun" at the same time, can you? Two different things there.

@jas9friend

11 ай бұрын

@@mikelastname1220a nun is referred to as sister. Same as a monk or friar is referred to as brother.

Thank you for your video. I hope you can do an update on Consecrated life in the future as a professed secular Institute member. I thought I would share more clarification. A secular institute is an institute of people consecrated to God by the three sacred bonds of poverty, celibate-chastity and obedience.. The way of life is secular, meaning that the members of a secular institute live in society like all laypeople, but combine this with consecrated life and its demands for the absolute. 5:04

love it , may i make a suggestion , can u make a video on the difference between anglicans and catholics

I’m currently reading 33 Days to Morning Glory to be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception! This is my first time doing it so I’m excited! Could you maybe do a video on Marian Consecration? What category would that be in, btw? It certainly doesn’t require being in a religious order.

Anchorites-- I have a name....I didn't know that....I thought I was just consecrated lay person. That's what everyone keeps calling me. Now I know. Thanks for teaching. I'm not sure what the 7sisters and brothers are connected to, tho'...we are too new, as far as I know. My profession was private, by apostolic order, I believe that I fit, regardless of however God wants me and my brothers and sisters to be in formation. Thanks for this video. I hope it brings lots of Vocations!

@LS-ei7xk

3 жыл бұрын

Hello-- Private vows here, too. The vows could be either private or public (Diocesan hermit, vows taken from the hands of a bishop). Both require rigorous discernment.

Actually, Norbertines do have a vow of stability to a particular abbey and in their early years were almost indistinguishable from Cistercians.

Excellent explanation

I'm in England and am discerning with a secular institute called 'The Leaven'. It is for single and widowed women only - not married women or men at all. We also do have a process of formation and do take first vows, then after 8 years take life vows and our consecration is full and binding. Vows are made in a Church to a priest and we are under the Bishop of Southwark in London. We live in our own homes and commit to saying at least morning and evening office, private silent prayer, spiritual reading and Lectio Divina and have two retreats per year where we get together and we have women in positions of authority. We are Carmelites -though we wear no outward dress showing that. We seem to fall somewhere between several vocations in this video.

Very, very interesting!

I want to be a Marist Brother, but I have many faults, I am very lustful, and I am attached to my properties, being single I have lived like a king ... And yet I have a strong desire to be religious ... I am a doctor, I am 29 years, if I correct my depraved mind, can I one day be a Marist brother? or am I already very old and damaged?

@brew8533

3 жыл бұрын

No one is too old or too young to receive the grace of God. I was was pretty lustful but crying to God I received the grace I needed. Keep going and it’s vocations week, so keep going brother!

@kemmow25

3 жыл бұрын

You can do. Just keep praying and asking for god's grace and did the saints to help guide you.

@ruthdavmor1611

3 жыл бұрын

My own feeling? Start where you are and allow yourself to be open to divine love. I am still only catechumen. My desire is to enter a contemplative order but I cannot, because I am divorced. However, I realised that this does not prevent me from adopting as much of the contemplative lifestyle as is possible whilst working to support myself. Prayer, study and mass remain open to me. The more I embrace what I *can* do and the more I attempt to live the Surrender Prayer, the more I am surprised. The smallest steps make a difference in who I am.

@doloresgrandes2536

3 жыл бұрын

Go to a Priest.

@Nepthu

3 жыл бұрын

@@brew8533 I was in my 30s when I discerned the priesthood. It had been on my heart for many years but the vocation director thought I was too old.

Hi everyone, I know you may not know me, but I was wondering if I could get some prayers for my dad who is currently fighting Covid in the hospital. Any prayers will help and I just want to say thank you and I hope everyone has a good day 💖

@breatheeasily4013

3 жыл бұрын

Praying for Meg's father, that he may survive and thrive.

@heyo8118

3 жыл бұрын

@@breatheeasily4013 Thank you so much and know that everyone may also be in my prayers no matter your current situation 💖 Sending love

@TreverSlyFox

3 жыл бұрын

Added to my Prayer List

@d88danp

3 жыл бұрын

Prayer for your father's healing.

@heyo8118

3 жыл бұрын

@@d88danp thank you so much and may you have a great day 💖💖

Oh wow! I didn’t know so many!!

I'm a very recent convert and I'm interested in discerning religious life. Is there a mandatory amount of years that I should be Catholic before joining a religious order?

@nfraehlich

3 жыл бұрын

You were probably asking Father, but I would say it’s never too early to start thinking and praying about it! When looking at joining a community, if you have a good idea what kind of order you want to join I’d go ahead and get in touch; their vocation directors will be more than happy to provide guidance and will let you know if they think it’s too early for you to be jumping in to religious life. They’ll also let you come and stay for short periods to get an idea of how you fit the community and to give you a feel for what your life would be like if you joined. If you’re thinking of a community and don’t have an idea of what order, this early period of prayer and discernment is a great time to do more research. (I’d also recommend the book Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, is the autobiography of a convert and his journey to enter a religious community) Congrats on your conversion! 😊

Can we get a full video on nuns and sisters and other religious?

Due to my health I cannot get accepted in the convent.i get strength from Jesus.i live the life of a nun. I love Jesus ❤️ with all my heart and soul.jesus accepts me.paulette quarie

I hope to find a vid explaining the difference between monastic contemplative apostolic and missional

Even tho i am a literal heathen (prefer the term much more than pagan) i felt for years that a monsastic life lived in honour of a vocation would be a good fit for me. However heathens in general are rare nowadays, and even rarer is for me to find enough like minded individuals to even start a prayer group... Peace my dude

I'm a 36 year old cradle Catholic and even I find the breadth and depth of Church lore to be confusing at times. It's just so big and so old that it would almost be a full time job to fully understand all of its various institutions and hierarchies of administration.

Future OFM 🙏🙏🙏

Nice

Dear Father I would require a clarification with regards to the Secular Franciscan order , as you said that secular Franciscan do not profess the evangelical counsels but as per the the rule of the SFO RULE NUMBER 23 AS APPROVED BY THE HOLY FATHER POPE PAUL THE VI , IT STATES THAT " PROFESSION BY ITS NATURE IS A PERMANENT COMMITMENT "

Considering monastic life. Pray for me.

@archsword2446

2 жыл бұрын

try the Order of St. Augustine of the Primitive Observance ( OSAPrim)

@archsword2446

11 ай бұрын

or the Hieronymites in Spain only 9 remaining in the world

Now, I am confused hahaha All this time, I thought the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity had the same level as Opus Dei. But, following your descriptions, I am confused whether we are more like them or more like Secular Franciscans. We have our public promise though and we go through a phase of pre-trial, trial, and promise though 😹

FYI, your link for "Find your vocation director" is broken.

Toward the end the Sisters left group in dark blue are DAUGHTERS OF ST PAUL. THE MEDIA SISTERS.I BELONG TO THAT CONGREGATION. THIS WAS MOST INFORMATIVE AND HRELPFUL TO HELP THE YOUNG WOMEN TO GET THE CALL HOPEFULLY. THANK YOU FATHER CASEY.

Thank you for a great presentation. I'm discerning my call on joining OFM. Is there any way to communate with you about it in private channel?

@TheTijuT

3 жыл бұрын

All the very best to you, Harald. May you grow into a life that allows you to move perpetually towards God. The Franciscan life is a call to truly live in humility, with an openness to beauty, and ultimately prepare oneself to live in imitation of Christ. I wish you only the best! :)

@haraldfrancisoddsen7413

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheTijuT Thank you, and peace to you brother.

@TheTijuT

3 жыл бұрын

@@haraldfrancisoddsen7413 Dear Brother in Christ Harald, thank you! May you find the peace and joy of Christ. I also found your other post. Harald, let us both pray for you; so you may find strength through your journey. May you listen now to him, clearer than ever before! May you find perpetual hope through Christ, and never lose your vocational orientation. Requesting intercessions of our Blessed Mother for you, Your friend in Christ, Tiju Thomas (from India)

So what are the 4 types of consecrated life?

Arent you allowed to leave if you wanted to leave no matter what your form of consecrated life? Nobody is forcing you to stay, right?

Which catagory are Redemptorists?

Future franciscan sister here 😊

Being a digital nomad with a travelling lifestyle, could I join a Third Order?

It would be interesting to know age limits I know when you're young maybe teenage, everyone welcomes you, but I think that at certain age maybe when you reach 30's you can make a mature decision, however you may seem old and with little time to make choice... or is it that I'm not listening properly to the Holy Spirit?

You didn't talk about 'Opus Dei'.

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, there are thousands of different individual communities. I couldn’t mention them all.

Im having a hard time learning on congregations while being married and if thats even an option

What about Episcopalian monk's and nuns ?

Any lay groups for older single - never married - ? Most groups I've checked into were for for married men & women with families

@clairebertha8102

3 жыл бұрын

I think there is a Franciscan order for lay people

@LS-ei7xk

3 жыл бұрын

Benedictine Oblates accept either single or married. I believe most other third orders do the same.

@archsword2446

2 жыл бұрын

Eudist of the 7th hour is for you

@lizbueding2626

Жыл бұрын

Try the Secular Franciscans. They are members of the Third Order, male and female, single, married, divorced, widowed, also diocesan priests.

I'm not Catholic, but I never found someone to marry and I'm in my mid-forties wishing I had some kind of religious community and commitment beyond how I currently live. I would not have felt the same as a younger person.

father you should collab with Rev Chris

Wow, I had no idea I could join a religious order as a married person! Can you switch to the one for widows if your spouse dies?

@archsword2446

2 жыл бұрын

Try the Sisters of St. Rita

@lizbueding2626

Жыл бұрын

You cannot join a vowed religious order as a married person, but some orders (like the Benedictines) have associates which they call oblates. The Franciscans, Dominicans, and Carmelites have lay Third Orders whose members can be male, female, single, married, widowed, or divorced.

MsRhuby was here February 11, 2023

Why do the Diocesan priests fall?

Hey as Catholics if we dont get baptized will we go to heaven?

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/am2VxdRwhae-eNY.html

What about the preists?

What about the Opus Dei?

Do you believe in theosis?

The last category sounds like the Nazirites. A vow made to G-d for a specific period of time.

Can someone become a consecrated layperson on their own ? Without having to join any kind of institute or society or third order ? With a spiritual director ? Excellent video, thank you.

@SponsaChristi

Жыл бұрын

Yes and No. Secular institutes are formally recognized by the church as an institute of Consecrated Life and are not for married people, they are for single people who renounce marriage for the sake of the kingdom like religious. Formally a member of a secular Institute is a Consecrated layperson. Third orders are not consecrated life. A person who may not feel called to a particular institute of consecrated life could make a private vow to God. But should not do so, without guidance from a spiritual director. The vow may be private, but It’s still a serious commitment and shouldn’t be taken lightly. “Single for a greater purpose”, is a great book to read, it’s about people who feel called to be dedicated to God, but not in a formal community, etc..

@r.c4914

Жыл бұрын

You can be consecrated to Sacred heart Jesus and the immaculate heart of Mary and follow what they ask in devotion. I see it necessary not even a option in these dark times , its the End the end of times.

CounSEls!

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

I’m well aware. My editor made quite a few mistakes this week.

Can men be consecrated virgins?

@alexdingle7877

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@MalevolentDebater

3 жыл бұрын

@Matt Not, specifically no. The rite of consecration to the vocation is specifically for women. Men can certainly take vows of chastity either in community or as a personal devotion, but they wouldn’t technically be “consecrated virgins”. If you are curious take a look at paragraphs 922-924 of the catechism.

@jesusacuna309

3 жыл бұрын

There's a similar but different thing

I WAS MARTYRED FOR PRAYING THE ROSARY IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 1977 A.D. (MIA-GAO, PHILIPPINES).

What about Jesuits?

Spell check...."counsels"!

😥😥😥

I MARTYRED IN 1977A.D.

What an amazing video,May lord make a way soonest for me as I search for cogregation

@archsword2446

2 жыл бұрын

try the ( OSA ) Sisters of St. Rita

No offense, but for my KZread research, I encountered too many big words to understand what's going on here. Will make a video reply fs

where does the "Old Roman Catholic Church" fit into this all these orders?

@BreakingInTheHabit

Жыл бұрын

I don’t believe the so-called Old Roman Catholic Church is in communion with The Catholic Church. It is its own religion, not a religious order.

Sorry, hate to be that person, but it should be Evangelical Counsels*, not councels

@sylvieb623

3 жыл бұрын

And I think I saw the word Institutes missing a "T". (2:53) Nevertheless, a great explanation of consecrated life!

@BreakingInTheHabit

3 жыл бұрын

Could you give me the time codes for when they happened? I need to have another conversation with my editor...

@sylvieb623

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit I have been following your videos for a while, and never noticed any other spelling hiccups, so don't take it too hard! God bless you, dear Padre. 🙏🕯🕊💒

@LS-ei7xk

3 жыл бұрын

@@sylvieb623 I noticed that, too. .

@mikelastname1220

2 жыл бұрын

@@BreakingInTheHabit - Could that "editor" be yourself? Don't be too hard on "him"!!! :)