Is God calling you to be a Franciscan Friar?

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  • The Friars of Holy Name Province share their vocation experiences and invite you to consider: is God calling you?

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  • @jewelysmiledeleon5891
    @jewelysmiledeleon5891 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Pray for me, still in the discerning stage. Hoping to enter next year. God bless us all.

    • @sallypavao5676
      @sallypavao5676 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey Jewel!!! Have you contacted the vocation director Basil yet?? God bless

    • @jewelysmiledeleon5891
      @jewelysmiledeleon5891 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oops no, am from the Philippines, i will go with their 2 days search in next month.

    • @gerald5899
      @gerald5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am from the Philippines too watching this inspires me to be one but I am in the middle of confusion. I have in the back of my mind becoming one of this friars.

    • @jewelysmiledeleon5891
      @jewelysmiledeleon5891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good news brothers! I passed the entrance exam! Am now processing my requirements❤️

    • @jewelysmiledeleon5891
      @jewelysmiledeleon5891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Geohn Fr. Jhoan can help you with that, he is the Vocation Director of OFM here.

  • @johnclaudio8799
    @johnclaudio8799 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    My prayer are with those who are called to becoming no matter who you are.

  • @shauncampbell969
    @shauncampbell969 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I am living with Friars and I am thinking about becoming a Deacon

  • @thomasdamon751
    @thomasdamon751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I believe my vocation is being a husband and a father. a have a wonderful wife and a wonderful daughter . i love my family. but i love God so much . and watching these videos makes me feel so much closer to God . and think they have a wonderful life. after all what could be more wonderful then living a life of God .and doing his will .

  • @normasalamanca8558
    @normasalamanca8558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I don’t think God is calling me as I came to Catholicism late and life, AND I am female. But I trust God, so I believe in a plan for my life, even though I’m old. Blessings to all with love, your sister in Christ!

    • @trollers6326
      @trollers6326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It doesn't matter if you are female, there are also woman francicians called poor clares.

    • @emmawilson2837
      @emmawilson2837 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you think more people are returning to Catholicism? It seems to be a genuine faith.

    • @normasalamanca8558
      @normasalamanca8558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@emmawilson2837 Certainly is genuine for me, as I went to great trouble to join and I am in my 60s. I would go to daily mass if I was able. I love the teaching of the Franciscans.

  • @tekell
    @tekell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So glad that these guys found a welcoming environment to discern their vocations and ultimately live the gospel life and community! I however was not welcomed was greatly humiliated and embarrassed! I never gave up though just looked at the greater franciscan family, which is also a wonderful blessing to the Church!

  • @gerald5899
    @gerald5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am from the Philippines too watching this inspires me to be one but I am in the middle of confusion. I have in the back of my mind becoming one of this friars. I do not know if there are some here in the Philippines

    • @arlorey9079
      @arlorey9079 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes we have 2 franciscan orders in the Philippines just search it in the FB account

  • @thomasdamon751
    @thomasdamon751 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think those who gave a thumbs down . really need prayers. if you have the opportunity to live the life God is calling you to live . please go for it . what a blessing . a opportunity to live and experience God .. wow God bless you all . . i believe with shape the world is in we. need more of religious life ..
    God governs the world. but prayers govern God ..

  • @RadTradX
    @RadTradX 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was Brother Casey Cole on the Breaking in the Habbit TH-cam channel who showed me the Franciscan way of life!

  • @Chas1160
    @Chas1160 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    May God Bless all of you and use each of you for His Glory. I will be praying daily for Renewals for all our lives and for His Church. Father Casey, in particular, I thank you for getting the Word of God, the Gospel out to the general public, outside the Church walls on U tube. It’s such a Blessing to all of us listening.

  • @Hugo-ox8pk
    @Hugo-ox8pk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have always wanted to serve the poor, live a life of poverty, and help others physically and spiritually. Becoming a friar has always been something I considered, I'm only 15 but it has never been a strange thought. I wonder how I can become one?

  • @anoopjoseph3666
    @anoopjoseph3666 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    my best wishes and prayers

  • @Tjoppy
    @Tjoppy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The music is very distracting. The words of the friars should have been enough in my humble opinion.

  • @kennethmatamorosa8637
    @kennethmatamorosa8637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have this calling to be a franciscan. I am from Philippines, I am a Teacher in Public School but my heart speaks with joy to be part of this mission.

    • @jomilfernandez6652
      @jomilfernandez6652 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here I'm still studying education right now but I'm planning and want to become a Franciscan friar.

    • @jomilfernandez6652
      @jomilfernandez6652 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I dunno idf there is a Franciscan school here Philippines

    • @frvitus6621
      @frvitus6621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jomilfernandez6652 Being a friar, you will never regret

  • @MukbangMukbangMukbang111
    @MukbangMukbangMukbang111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please pray for me I believe God is calling me to this way of life. Thanks!

    • @butter2747
      @butter2747 ปีที่แล้ว

      So did you follow it?

    • @MukbangMukbangMukbang111
      @MukbangMukbangMukbang111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@butter2747 not yet sadly I’ve been running from the Lord but by His grace and mercy He’s recently brought me back.

  • @jeanethlarsen8096
    @jeanethlarsen8096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is something that I like to learn about

  • @arthuraskey8154
    @arthuraskey8154 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'I have been all things unholy. If God can use me, He can use anybody.' St Francis of Assisi.

  • @vivianilyas8387
    @vivianilyas8387 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Going to join friar this year pray for me

  • @babyelias3992
    @babyelias3992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At 4:40.... it's my fav... Father Casey!!!!

    • @jomilfernandez6652
      @jomilfernandez6652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here one of my favorite Franciscan friar

    • @emmawilson2837
      @emmawilson2837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is the son I would have loved to have had🙂

    • @simon-zw6wy
      @simon-zw6wy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love and like Francis of Assisi

  • @joeraceldidulo4910
    @joeraceldidulo4910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am a diocesan seminarian and i am discerning of becoming a friar..

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ..excellent, come and join us, the Franciscans of the Cross. A new lay Community. I am the Founder and Superior General. Blessings. Francis Mary

  • @celticspirit1
    @celticspirit1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just joined a Franciscan church in CT. I love Jesus.

  • @laurielucent7460
    @laurielucent7460 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Praise Our Lord God for leading and guiding you back to where you belong. Brotherhood....capuchin....CATHOLIC LIFE!

  • @drixsalasbar8600
    @drixsalasbar8600 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Im Drix im from Philippines i want to be a Franciscan Capuchin but i have a calling to follow St Francis Footstep

    • @archsword2446
      @archsword2446 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drix Salasbar consider Minims.

    • @glyndiakarenia9454
      @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Read your holy bible some of write so naive after taking lives for fun. All in the name of the lost.

  • @jesonescasinas9918
    @jesonescasinas9918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a friar of the Franciscans of the Divine Mercy a Franciscan Community Founded by a Filipino priest and we are here in Cebu City. For those who are discerning to have a calling to religious life especially in the Franciscans Family. Try to look our Face book account. thank you and God bless you all.

  • @laurensung3196
    @laurensung3196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful wonderful sharing father 🙌 🙌 🙌
    God calling us be salt and light for the world with grateful and humble heart. Let's walk in love!! Still trust in Jesus and act of mercy believe God works in silence.
    God have mercy on us and world all the time. Amen.
    🇮🇩💓🇮🇩

    • @josephzammit8483
      @josephzammit8483 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/YK_xqBxXDBU/w-d-xo.html

  • @marcihf9763
    @marcihf9763 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful stories. :-)

  • @paroparo4127
    @paroparo4127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonna be a Franciscan friar but how? I am from East Timor. I felt like God has called me to be as poor as Jesus and St. Francis are. so that I can be the servant of God and of all in all humility and in poverty?

  • @dennissalemi920
    @dennissalemi920 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God bless them

  • @roboparks
    @roboparks 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    At 27 a Belligerent Agnostic now 49 I read the St. Frances Prayer for the 1st time. My life has never been the same since. Jesus screwed up my Life . Kept me out prison. I stop Drinking and using Drugs. Stop treating women badly. I became in impoverish. And Rejected wealth out choice ? or Gods will? at 49 Im still trying to make sense of it. The Strange thing is Im not Even catholic. And didn't become a Christian till I was 35. I went to a Domination were they were studying the Scripture a Presbyterian church were I was encourage to challenge everything. (By Some people while others thought I was a heathen LOL). I be forever grateful to a well educated Pastor there as I challenged everything he challenged me which brought me deeper and deeper in to study. I even studied Catholicism and the History of the church. And found out Catholics arnt so bad LOL

  • @mikeobele1488
    @mikeobele1488 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    pls I need help I love you work with you and God

  • @gxklugsjskks139
    @gxklugsjskks139 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The greatest miracle of Saint Francis worldly man want to become a priest, pray for me father.

  • @xiaonai7099
    @xiaonai7099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what is the title of the background music?

    • @synon9m
      @synon9m 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      my heart will go on, Celine Dion

  • @marteenyoungfree4246
    @marteenyoungfree4246 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Myself i wanna become a Conventual frair please pray for me..... Cause there are many obstacle on my way.....

  • @josephraj2667
    @josephraj2667 ปีที่แล้ว

    Give me another chance to live the life of gospel 🙏

  • @clementmartinez121
    @clementmartinez121 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am not able to love, not just yet. There is my family and then there's the rest of humanity and I'm not impressed with the anyone. I'm working on it now and I have a way to go. God bless.

  • @conversionofsinners2963
    @conversionofsinners2963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If someone is 46 healthy & called to the Franciscans how pld is to old?

  • @davidleemartin4909
    @davidleemartin4909 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How to become a 3rd order Lay Friar since I am married?

    • @sesybisa6696
      @sesybisa6696 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Go to your parish priest to ask information about franciscan 3rd order, they knows A lot.

    • @georgeowens2539
      @georgeowens2539 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is there an upper limit on age ?

  • @donbosco6212
    @donbosco6212 ปีที่แล้ว

    For lord Christ Jesus is our lord God, written in the Bible, for Christ Jesus is the saviour of the entire world, established priesthood and family life, forever and ever, Amen,

  • @waaagh3203
    @waaagh3203 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    God is calling me to be a Templar. WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THIS?!?!?!?!

  • @supersmart671
    @supersmart671 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dear Friars we are saved(justifed) by faith alone. Truly appreciate your commitment to the Cross. Hope your good works is flowing out of your justification not for your justification.

    • @glyndiakarenia9454
      @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Liar liar liar your garmets are on fire
      LIAR LIAR LIAR blest Virgin Mary burnt your garmets on FIRE!!!! Amen

    • @glyndiakarenia9454
      @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your faith was is in hinduism culture!!!!

  • @dennisjacob1081
    @dennisjacob1081 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like st Francis love of nature

  • @Onioncup
    @Onioncup 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can I bring a friar if I am American?

  • @teleconferencing-arkadin6748
    @teleconferencing-arkadin6748 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    #sisterKristinaNolan

  • @pinoiecayme7129
    @pinoiecayme7129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can i join you... Pls help me

  • @teachereduardo8371
    @teachereduardo8371 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can I be part of this province I live in mexico

  • @dianarecharte4942
    @dianarecharte4942 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    que hermoso

  • @lukec1066
    @lukec1066 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great channel!

  • @jimhall167
    @jimhall167 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What good would it do for God to call me? I am 71 and deemed to be too old to profess. I am a very young 71 and could easily give them a good 20 years, but, alas, they say no to me.

    • @sebastianvella8992
      @sebastianvella8992 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      THAT IS NOT FAIR.

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...stay in God's eternal moment. Join us. The Franciscans of the Cross. Google us. I am the Founder and Superior General and welcome all ages. Blessings. Francis Mary

    • @frvitus6621
      @frvitus6621 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can be a secular Franciscan

  • @josephraj2667
    @josephraj2667 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a friar

  • @grantharper6033
    @grantharper6033 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s very frustrating when you’re calling comes later in life. I know God is calling me, it’s strong and going nowhere yet I’m told I’m too old at every turn. Feels like everyone is saying God doesn’t want me until I’m dead now and I’m only 50 so I’m kinda hoping I’ve got a good 30 years left.

    • @glyndiakarenia9454
      @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stop harping

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I want you. Come and join the Franciscans of the Cross. I am the Founder and Superior General. WE have sister's also in the St Clare Sister's of Grace and Brother's in the Franciscans of the Cross. We are a roman catholic community of lay franciscans. We are in 7 countries at the moment. You are very welcome to join us. Blessings and much love, Francis Mary

  • @brndnff1232
    @brndnff1232 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want my son to become a Franciscan father,

  • @putagonta491
    @putagonta491 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    My baptismal name is fransico, I want to be fransican , how could I be? From Japan

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...you are very welcome to join us, we are a new LAY COMMUNITY, now within 7 countries. I am the Founder and Superior General. Our Charism is Inter- religious dialogue and living the life of the gospel. You can google me on cledwyn francis mary.

  • @forgiveness2670
    @forgiveness2670 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What are the education requirements?

  • @voxtemporis4503
    @voxtemporis4503 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am being called to be an Amalekite.

  • @duranddavis7710
    @duranddavis7710 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m on a journey

  • @miguel101278
    @miguel101278 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i would like to be a monk, God is pathing that in my heart, is it to late to join and what do I need to join ?

    • @sheepishlymeh4136
      @sheepishlymeh4136 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Miguel Garcia Have you tried talking about this with your spiritual director or priest? :)

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ..just join us, the Franciscans of the Cross. We have 7 active communities around the world. I am the Founder and Superior General. I am looking for both men and women to join our most beautiful work. Blessings. Francis Mary

    • @marypreema1589
      @marypreema1589 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Say a humble yes to lord

  • @friarrodneyburnap4336
    @friarrodneyburnap4336 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a Nazaritenn Friar of the O.T.N. Way of Christ... Christ Way of Living, a Brethren in Christ; a Mendicant; living by faith with would I can carry...Hodos!
    Etymology. The English term Friar is derived from the Norman French word free ("brethren"), from the Latin frater ("brother"), which was widely used in the Latin New Testament to refer to members of the Christian community.
    We chose to include sisters as Friars also . . .
    1 Peter 2:9 King James Version (KJV)
    9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
    I am a Nazaritenn Friar . . .of the Order of the Naw-Zeer Way of Christ. . .Christ Way of Living...we are 1 Century believers in the Way of Christ. . .I am not Roman Catholic or Protestant . . .I’m neither Calvinist nor Arminian ...but of the Way of Christ or Hodos in the greek. I have taken Vows to be set apart for Christ . . .Simplicity Luke 14:33, Celibacy (Friar's from this order can marry, put are celibate till marriage) 1Corinthians 7:2 and Obedience Hebrews 13:17 .
    Many people tell me your not suppose to make Vows according to holy scripture. . .but do you realize that every time you buy a car on payments you have made a Vow to a man that you will make your payments . . .you become a bond slave to the lender . . .a contract is a Vow.
    I have taken Spiritual Vows . . .to give my life to Christ and live by faith, trusting God to meet all my needs to Forsake all... Luke 14:33 to be Celibate 1Corinthians 7:2 and to be Obedience Hebrews 13:17 I have humbled myself and submitted to the community of my brothers.
    the making of a new kind of friar...
    "Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The restoration of the church will surely come from a sort of new monasticism which has in common with the old only the uncompromising attitude of a life lived according to the Sermon on the Mount in the following of Christ. I believe it is now time to call people to this.”
    “…I still can’t ever believe that you really consider all these thoughts to be so completely insane. At present there are still some things for which an uncompromising stand is worthwhile. And it seems to me that peace and social justice or Christ himself are such.”
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from a letter to Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer in “A Testament to Freedom” (1990)
    “Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace….
    The expansion of Christianity and the increasing secularization of the church caused the awareness of costly grace to be gradually lost…. But the Roman church did keep a remnant of that original awareness. It was decisive that monasticism did not separate from the church and that the church had the good sense to tolerate monasticism. Here, on the boundary of the church, was the place where the awareness that grace is costly and that grace includes discipleship was preserved…. Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.”
    ...
    In Christianity the word (from Greek erēmitēs, “living in the desert”) is used interchangeably with anchorite, although the two were originally distinguished on the basis of location: an anchorite selected a cell attached to a church or near a populous centre, while a hermit retired to the wilderness. The term wondering fool applies to Hermit Friars.
    Like Christ, we have no where to lay our heads.. .. ..I am a Fool for Christ, who's Fool are you?
    . . Right now, I am not making plans to far in advance. My problem with making plans is somebody will always get disappointed. . .I don't follow through with to many of them. This way I can stop and help the man that needs a ride on my donkey . . .to the hospital.. . .if I don't have to be some where then no one is offended if I don't show up...I kind of let the day just unfold in front of me . . .This is part of being a mendicant.
    God told me when I met the brothers (friars) not to come under anyone's ministry any more . . .so to the best of my ability I am not doing that . . .
    A Friar is a kind of Hermit. . .I can be living with my brothers one day, then wake up and they have all left to minister some where else . . .there are about 50 of us all over the USA. The brothers usually travel in community, there could be 5 brothers or 20 brothers living together for a season . . .the thing is many times we travel alone. Living as Hermits, praying, ministering (meeting needs) loving some body . . .many times there could be three or four brothers doing the work . . .together. You can really know if this life is what you are supposed to be doing, if you can, keep doing it, when no ones around to watch . . .a Friar is a calling, a lifestyle, of traveling and meeting needs of others. Living in the moment, being a intentional believer in the Way of Christ . . .Hodo!
    friarrodney_burnap@yahoo.com

  • @noceranunzio
    @noceranunzio 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ciao All.. what happens when this call comes at the age of 46? what should i do? :) God bless u all

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ...go for it. I entered the Franciscan Community at the age of 45. I founded the Franciscans of the Cross, you can utube me / us. We have 7 Communities now around south east asia. Our CHARISM is iNTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE and LIVING THE LIFE OF THE GOSPEL. I am the Founder and Superior General. You are most welcome to join me and my Brother's and Sister's. Deepest love and blessings. God is not aware of time. Live in God's FOREVER MOMENT. Blessings and love. Francis Mary Cledwyn. and yes, we are Roman Catholic, and yes we are real.

    • @pafueraelpldyprm1019
      @pafueraelpldyprm1019 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cledwynstafford4819 im from New jersey i got a bible verse tattoed on my wrist can i still join?

  • @sheltonwijesiri8112
    @sheltonwijesiri8112 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really Iike to be.but I am now very old.

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...God does not see age, colour, orientation. God sees a loving heart. Come join us, The Franciscans of the Cross, new and in 7 countries. I am the Founder and Superior General. Francis Mary

  • @MarkSeydel
    @MarkSeydel 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    From what I have found out you better have money if you want to be a Franciscan. If you can't afford the education - good luck.

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...this is not true. Our community welcomes one immediately. Superior General of the Franciscans of the Cross. Fremantle. Australia. Francis Mary

  • @joemorris2814
    @joemorris2814 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The background music is extremely distracting to an autistic person like myself; it's a shame, as this is a very interesting documentary about a fascinating life of faith.

  • @jackwilliamatkins5602
    @jackwilliamatkins5602 ปีที่แล้ว

    No such thing as best people god created

  • @glyndiakarenia9454
    @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sad story

  • @clearjr1
    @clearjr1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You could have simply said that Franciscans wear brown, Dominicans white, and Jesuits black. I don't think you gave equal time to the competitors.

    • @roboparks
      @roboparks 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Franciscans are poor Dominicans are rich and Jesuits are educated LOL

    • @cledwynstafford4819
      @cledwynstafford4819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ..franciscans wear white, gray, brown, blue.

  • @stephen33
    @stephen33 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    no stop calling me.

  • @glyndiakarenia9454
    @glyndiakarenia9454 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who cares?

    • @waldokleynhans6977
      @waldokleynhans6977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you don't care why comment on this video or better yet watch it in the first place