While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.
I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?