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Q: My son joined the seminary in June when my husband was away for work. Since coming home, he has missed our son and keeps talking about him and asks, \u201cHow can God take away our son?\u201d My son is 23 years old and dreamed of becoming a priest since he was 16. My husband wants me to go to the seminary and bring my son back home and to stop all his church activities, and to work in a company office instead. I have always supported my son to become a priest and want to see him at the altar celebrating Mass. I don’t know what to do. My husband is fighting with me every day to bring my son back. Father, please advise me what to do and how to convince my husband to let our son stay in the seminary? \u2013 R.<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0It’s great to hear that your son is in the seminary and pursuing a possible priestly vocation.<\/p>\n

For the record, let\u2019s recall that a vocation is a call from God. Ultimately, it\u2019s not about what a parent wants for a son. It\u2019s what God wants \u2013 and what a young man is willing to saying yes to.<\/p>\n

Now, obviously, I don’t know how your husband and son view the situation, so my observations here are a bit tentative.<\/p>\n

It’s understandable that a parent could find it difficult to accept a son’s vocation to the priesthood or religious life. The parent might have other plans for the son, including the carrying on of the family name.<\/p>\n

Here you might also remind him that all life belongs to God. Our Lord has certainly blessed your husband in many ways by giving him you<\/em> and your son. Maybe God is now seeking some generosity from your husband in return.<\/p>\n

You might help your husband see that the vocation is in fact a gift for the family, and that God has a way of blessing those who are generous with him.<\/p>\n

That your husband wants your son to stop \u201call his church activities\u201d might indicate a lack of basic faith — or perhaps a parental fear in the wake of all the Church scandals of the last generation.<\/p>\n

In any case, your son is an adult and can make his own decisions. You might want to calmly point that out to your husband and invite him to pray about it.<\/p>\n

(It’s interesting that your husband is pressing you<\/em> to pull your son out of the seminary. But that’s another matter.)<\/p>\n

For your own peace of mind, you might want to tell your husband that you understand his concerns, but that he doesn’t need to keep bringing up the subject. If he feels strongly about the issue, he could speak to your son himself.<\/p>\n

You might want to intensify your prayers for your husband and son. The devil likes to derail families \u2026 and priestly vocations. Count on my prayers.<\/p>\n

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He was an assistant publisher of the National Catholic Register and Faith & Family magazine and an editor of the Zenit news agency\u2019s English edition. He has written for\u00a0SpiritualDirection.com\u00a0and\u00a0ePriest. Fr. McIlmail also worked in spiritual retreats in the Northeast, New England, the Midwest, and the South\u00a0and assisted with mission work in Mexico. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in journalism and was active in the pro-life movement before entering the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. 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