Dear Mike:

I applaud you and praise God that you desire to be loyal to the faith concerning homosexuality. It is very courageous what you are doing to not only remain loyal to the faith but to try to seek healing. We will pray for your healing.

As for the priesthood, those with deep-seated homosexual tendencies are precluded from seminary. The actual ruling is:

...even while deeply respecting the persons in question, cannot admit to Seminary or Holy Orders those who are actively homosexual, have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called gay culture.

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Since you are not actively engaging in homosexual acts and are not supporting the homosexual culture, the issue will be deep-seated homosexual tendencies.

As you progress in healing, those deep-seated tendencies may withdraw. If they do, or if they already have, then you may be eligible for seminary. You will have to talk with the Vocations Director of your diocese to see what is possible.

If you are not accepted for any seminary you must accept that as mortification. When a door shuts another door opens. God will lead you into another kind of ministry. I know that is a disappointment if that happens, but God will not abandon you; He will lead you into another direction.

I have been through this myself as I, too, wished to be a priest. But that will not happen for me for a couple of different reasons. I have to accept that and go on with what I can do and what God leads me to do. This current ministry on the web and in the Legion of St. Michael is where God has lead me instead.

We can serve God and the Church in many capacities. The key is to be open and willing for whatever God has for us.

I think you should continue to pursue healing and talk with your Vocations Director to see what is possible. But, remember if seminary is not a possibility, there will be another mission for you.

The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman said:

Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random...God see every soul, He lodges it in the body, one by one, for a purpose, He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labour in them for Him. As Christ has his work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary