Diocese of Ferns - Vocations
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At the moment we have four students.
My name is Billy Caulfield and I am a seminarian studying for the priesthood for the Diocese of Ferns. I am now thirty two years old. I am from the parish of Horeswood and the oldest of four children.
I am what you would call a late vocation to the priesthood.
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Hello, my name is Conor O'Brien, I am a seminarian in Maynooth at the moment.I am 34 years of age.One person who I admired greatly when growing up was John Paul 11, who will be canonised shortly in Rome.He inspired my vocation, my parents said that he visited Ireland in 1979, the year I was born and he said the famous words "Young people of Ireland I love you".
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My name is Ricky O'Connor. I am 25 years old, the eldest of 3 boys, and a convert to the Catholic faith. I was born in England and moved to Ireland when I was 12 years old.
I was not raised with any religious upbringing neither did I have any particular interest in the subject of religion. Throughout high school I found myself 'mainly due to indifference' in the atheist camp. I remember when I was about 15 or 16 reading Richard Dawkins' book the God delusion and thinking “right that's it there is no God!”
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My name is Barry Larkin. I grew up in the town of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
On leaving school in the early 1980’s I did not know then that I would live and work for almost the next thirty years outside of Co. Wexford, mostly in Ireland, with a short spell in Malawi, Central Africa.
The sense of being in some way drawn toward priesthood has always been there and for many years I did all I could to abandon and ignore the idea with all my might!
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