So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.
I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.