Leaving All To Follow Christ

[Sarah147]

Hello,

I thought it would be interesting to mention the people that had to give up a LOT to follow Christ in a religious vocation or the Priesthood.


Here are some I came across:

Chase Hilgenbrinck, soccer player, leaves to enter Seminary.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sp-BXeYuYI&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sp-BXeYuYI&feature=related[/url]

Dolores Hart, famous actress, leaves to enter cloister.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGmDifYq60&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGmDifYq60&feature=related[/url]



Know of any others?



God bless you.

[loveletslive]

Grant Desme, pro baseball player retired to enter seminary
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4849432

(oh and chase hilgenbrink plays on the soccer team at the mount with one of my friends...hehe unfair advantage! no wonder they beat all the other seminary teams in the rector's cup tournament)

Edited August 1, 2010 by loveletslive

[Sarah147]

I guess we could say Rosalind Moss. She was a successful author that left career world to become a religious sister and start her own order.

I guess singer Madonna could have become a nun:
“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars.... When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”

Edited August 1, 2010 by JoyfulLife

[OnlySunshine]

Sr. Catherine Holum (formerly Kristen Holum) of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal was an Olympic speedskater before she gave it all up to become a Sister. She's now living in the first international mission of the CFR Sisters in England!

http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/2010/02/sister-catherine-olympic-speedskater.html

[DameAgnes]

Pop Star into Monk

http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/paddy-kelly-conversion-story.html

Christian Singer becomes sister

http://blog.beliefnet.com/deaconsbench/2008/09/Whatever-happened-to-Danielle-Rose.html

Doctor gives up practice to become Little Sister of Poor
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-religion/2555538/posts?page=1

Baseball player to seminary
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4849432

Edited August 1, 2010 by DameAgnes

[Sarah147]

What about Saints, too. Can you think of famous people that entered religious life and became Saints? Such as Princes, Kings, famous actors, famous writers, etc.


Former tennis star Andrea Jaeger became a nun (unfortunetly not a Catholic order, but it's Christian)
[url="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-560743/Why-I-nun-tennis-star-Andrea-Jaeger.html"]http://www.dailymail...rea-Jaeger.html[/url]

Former actress Chen Xiaoxu became a Buddhist nun.

More about Dolores Hart
[url="http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Articles/hollywood-star-joins-the-convent.html"]http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/Articles/hollywood-star-joins-the-convent.html
[/url]
Famous actor Peter Boyle, was a [b]former monk[/b] in the Christian Brothers order. He played Raymond's Dad in Everybody Loves Raymond. Maybe he will return?

Edited August 1, 2010 by JoyfulLife

[Shana]

I second Danielle Rose, watch this youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af3_rViSl3A

She is so beautiful.

[Sarah147]

Vice-president of a big company, and very wealthy, Father Cavanagh.
[url="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827749,00.html"]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,827749,00.html[/url]

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='loveletslive' date='31 July 2010 - 11:56 PM' timestamp='1280631410' post='2150412']
Grant Desme, pro baseball player retired to enter seminary
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4849432

[b](oh and chase hilgenbrink plays on the soccer team at the mount with one of my friends...hehe unfair advantage! no wonder they beat all the other seminary teams in the rector's cup tournament)[/b]
[/quote]

*Cough* The Mount had [i]three[/i] championships [i]prior[/i] to Chase's arrival... Just sayin'. Chase is a great soccer player and great guy overall. Great addition to the team. Buuuut, they were champs long before he came along.

[sistersintigo]

[quote name='JoyfulLife' date='01 August 2010 - 01:19 PM' timestamp='1280679566' post='2150509']
What about Saints, too. Can you think of famous people that entered religious life and became Saints? Such as Princes, Kings, famous actors, famous writers, etc.

Famous actor Peter Boyle, was a [b]former monk[/b] in the Christian Brothers order. He played Raymond's Dad in Everybody Loves Raymond. Maybe he will return?
[/quote]

Peter Boyle died not long ago, God be good to him.

[Sarah147]

Wow. I had no idea.

I found this on him:

[b]Peter Boyle, explaining why he decided to abandon his early career choice as a Christian Brothers monk

"I felt the call for awhile; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh."

[/b]

Edited August 1, 2010 by JoyfulLife

[DameAgnes]

Mother Katharine Drexel, of course, left her life as an heiress to become a foundress.

[tnavarro61]

[quote name='JoyfulLife' date='02 August 2010 - 07:14 AM' timestamp='1280700845' post='2150607']
Wow. I had no idea.

I found this on him:

[b]Peter Boyle, explaining why he decided to abandon his early career choice as a Christian Brothers monk

"I felt the call for awhile; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh."

[/b]
[/quote]

ahm, correction: Christian Brothers aren't monks. They are a teaching order.

God bless!