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Hi, I'm Charles. I'm an undergrad at Villanova from Oklahoma. I'm Maronite, and seriously considering joining the seminary. However, I'm not sure if I'm called to celibacy. At present, the Maronites have married priests in Lebanon, but not in the West. Has anyone heard anything about changes in this area? Thanks!
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Charles welcome to the forum, sit back and enjoy all the learned folk and lively discussion. Those who know will answer all things in time.
Blessings
Aidan Michael
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Welcome Charles
Hope you enjoy it here.
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"We love, because he first loved us"--1 John 4:19
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Dear CharlesB: Welcome! Have you met Yuhannon? He is our resident expert on the Maronite Catholic Church! Paging Yuhannon, our fearless Maronite apologist!  Amado
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Dear CharlesB, welcome aboard, here you will find alot of hearfelt advice, wisdom, knowledge and concern for others. I suggest you talk with a priest, after all they were not born celibate! And from the priest's and monastics I know they all tell me the same thing: Celibacy is a gift from God! Good luck and I will pray for you a rosary this evening.
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Thank you all for the welcomes, and a special thanks to Seraphim. God knows I could use the rosary.
Does Yuhannon come here often?
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Welcome Charles, you will find lots of knowledge here just reading many of the posts,I know I have . There is usually someone with the answers to any questions asked.
A Sister In Christ
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Welcome Charles!
And may the Risen Christ bless you for your consideration of the priesthood! In this day and age it is a very courageous thing to do!! May Christ continue to give you His courage!!
Amen, Amen!
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Hello and welcome Charles.
I think that the Maronites are ordaining married clergy or is that Melkites.
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Charles, Welcome to the Forum, . (This is going to get confusing - used to just have to think about differentiating between Charles Bransom and our Tennessean brother  ). We need more Maronite representation (I do think that Yuhannon has been our only active Maronite poster until now); he posts here fairly regularly and I suspect reads even more regularly. I need to reply to him regarding a message on another site and will nudge him to come by, just in case. Originally posted by Stephanos I:
I think that the Maronites are ordaining married clergy or is that Melkites? Stephanos, It's the Melkites. Charles is correct that the Maronites haven't ordained any married priests in the US and I don't believe that they have any married priests assigned here. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Maronites time to get with it!
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Haha, no kidding, Father!
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