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Am I called to an order or not? I'm 16.

Trey asks:

Dear Fr. Anthony Bannon, 

I feel called to the priesthood, and I have since age twelve. (I am currently sixteen.) However, I am having a hard time discerning whether I am called to an order or not. I feel that I should take vows of poverty, but I don't feel called to any specific order, and do feel called to help ordinary Catholics, or do missionary work.

Dear Trey, 

It seems to me that the proper step for you to take now is to start looking actively into some religious orders. If you do not feel a call to a specific order it may be because you don't yet know any orders in any depth. So as to give grace a chance to move your heart, start finding out about the orders you might know of vaguely. I think it's best not to get information on too many at a time, just start of with the ones you have heard of or have come across in passing. As you get the information and read through it you will find that certain elements will begin to come into focus - you will read things and realize that they are not what you are called to, and other certain things will strike a chord with you, at times almost jump off the page at you. 

Follow up on these, write back to the order, if possible visit, speak to the priests. All the time be sure in your prayer to ask the Holy Spirit to help you see where he is leading you, and tell him you want to be as generous as you can with Christ and serve him the best you can. 

God bless.

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