Missionaries of the Sacred

A young man who was working with Mother Teresa and trying to discern his vocation asked her to pray for him to have certainty, to be sure about how God was calling him to love.  She refused to pray for certainty.  She explained that certainty was the last thing he was holding on to and he needed to let it go.  He commented that she seemed pretty sure of herself and she responded that she was hardly ever sure of her self, but that she had learned to trust in God.  She would pray for him to learn to trust in God.

As a young man I wanted to become a priest.  I didn’t know about brothers, I only knew that the priests in my life were models of what I wanted to become.  When I tried to apply to Sacred Heart Apostolic School I earned that they were only taking boys who wanted to be Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.  That was all right to me even though I didn’t know at that time what Missionaries of the Sacred Heart are.  I applied and was accepted and was on my way, so I thought, to become a priest.  I that minor seminary I met my first religious brothers.  I knew I didn’t want to be one of them, I wanted to be a priest.  I recall saying in the major seminary that I would never choose the life of a brother. A few years later, in the major seminary a serious emotional problem became manifest in my life and ordination would be a big mistake.  I was in final vows at the time.  My superiors offered to get me dispensation from my vows.  I chose to remain a Missionary of the Sacred Heart as a brother.

In my fifty-seven years I have served in many ways, teaching, writing, manual workin the states and for seventeen years in Papua New Guinea.  Now I am old and look back upon my life with satisfaction. Please note that while as a youngster I didn’t know I was trusting in God when I applied for the minor seminary, yet that was what I was doing.  Over the years His will for me unfolded little by little.  I just knew that I had to be something explicitly religious.  I even wound up being a brother which I thought I never would be.  I am now seventy-seven, fifty seven years a Missionary of the Sacred Heart.

God cannot guide you on your journey unless you are on your journey, not just standing there uncertain and afraid.  If your think you might be called to be a Missionary of the Sacred Heart you can contact Father Andrew Torma, M.S.C.

Office of Vocation Ministry
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Brother Joe Tesar, MSC