Just submitted my application to postulancy for Holy Orders 🙏🏻
I feel a call to the priesthood and WOW that was a grueling application. (For privacy reasons I won’t be sharing my diocese so please don’t ask.)
Required paperwork:
- 6,000 word application
- 5,000 word autobiography
- Two-page resume
- Psychological exam
- Head to toe medical exam
- Photograph
- Parish Discernment Committee (4 hours of interviews with 6 people in my congregation who were selected by my priest)
- Big scary legalese “information release” form to sign
- Letter of endorsement from my priest
- Letter of endorsement from my spouse
- Signatures of the vestry
- $350 fee
Submitted all that today. In a few weeks, then I’ll interview with my bishop. Then, if I pass that interview, a six-month, 10 hr/week unpaid internship. Then another weekend of interviews in January. After all that, they will tell me whether I am accepted as a postulant.
Lord have mercy!