{"id":5146,"date":"2006-03-30T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/03\/30\/its-very-liberating-to-not-be-attached-to-the-unnecessary\/"},"modified":"2006-03-30T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T14:47:44","slug":"its-very-liberating-to-not-be-attached-to-the-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/03\/its-very-liberating-to-not-be-attached-to-the-unnecessary\/","title":{"rendered":""It's very liberating to not be attached to the unnecessary""},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting article on young people and religious vocations includes the following.<\/p>\n

..Peter Stamm has been interested in joining the clergy since third grade, when he became an altar boy at Our Lady of Victory, a church near his subdivision of Spring Valley in Northwest Washington.<\/p>\n

"I don’t know why I wanted to do it. I just remember being deeply attracted to the role the priest had," said Stamm, 18, who is studying philosophy at Boston College.<\/p>\n

By ninth grade, the call was too loud to ignore, drowning out the intensifying sex abuse scandals that prompted his classmates at the parochial St. Anselm’s School to be unkind.<\/p>\n

"People made their voices very well known that I was a pedophile, a homosexual, like in the halls and stuff," he said with no inflection. "Luckily, I was at a good place in my prayer life. I accepted all the persecution I got and prayed for people doing it."<\/p>\n

Home during his spring break this month, Stamm talked excitedly in his family’s elegantly appointed living room about his upcoming weekend with a group of friars in Emmitsburg, in Frederick County, who own nothing and beg for food.<\/p>\n

"I think when people see this radical lifestyle they are drawn to it. It’s very liberating to not be attached to the unnecessary," he said.<\/p>\n

Stamm considered going right into the seminary after high school. But he decided he should live for a while in a more secular, diverse environment — to see whether he was sure he wanted to become a priest and to have a broader experience so he could "serve people better" if he did take that step later. He says it is likely he will enter the seminary after college.
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