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Pius X's Holy Office on priestly vocations/"discernment" (there was a controversy at the time over the question):
The book of the eminent man Joseph Canon Lahitton, “La Vocation Sacerdotale.” is in no way to be reprobated, but rather is is deserving of outstanding praise in the
those gifts of nature and grace, and confirmed by that goodness of life and sufficiency of learning, that afford a well-founded hope, that he would be able rightly to fulfill the priestly duties and maintain its obligations holily. - AAS 4 (1912), 485."
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Plus it features our friend Fr. Peter Totleben, OP, Palamism and modal-collapse expert... He is also absolutely RIPPED, if you didn't know. May his Twitter handle RIP...
rule, in some interior aspiration of the subject or in impulses of the Holy Spirit to receive the priesthood; (3) but, on the contrary, nothing more is required in the candidate that he may rightly be invited by the bishop, than a right intention together with a fitness based on
following points: (1) that no one has a right to ordination antecedently to the free choice of him by the bishop; (2) that the condition to which the Ordinary should look, and which is called a priestly vocation, by no means consists, at all events necessarily and as a general