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A Hundred Times More<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Gospel call to give up everything and follow Jesus is the path to fullness and joy. In consecrated life we live this call in a radical way to remind the world of heaven. Surrendering a family, things, and even our own will is certainly not easy, but when it\u00b4s seen as a means to union with God in this life and the next, it becomes a source of deep and lasting peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeds of Grace<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When I was 9 years old I was baptized, along with my two brothers, in St. Margaret Mary parish in Slidell, Louisiana. A year ago, as my family watched the home video our Dad took of the occasion, I thought to myself: \u201cAmazing. At that moment none of us could have fathomed that God would call all three of us to follow Christ in the priesthood\u201d (though you\u2019ll have to wait for their stories later!). The seeds of our vocation had been planted long before, but on that day, soaked in the life-giving waters of baptism, they began to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In high school, I ended up going on a retreat run by the youth group in our parish. I don\u2019t remember whether I signed up of my own accord or if I was \u201csigned up\u201d by my parents. In any case, after the day of my baptism, that first retreat stands out as another turning point in my life of faith. It was on that retreat where I made friends who would teach me \u2013 and more importantly show me<\/em> \u2013 what it meant to have a relationship with Christ and be his disciple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the retreat, I started going to the youth group on the weekends. At first, the big draw for me wasn\u2019t so much the meetings themselves but rather the activities after<\/em> the meetings that I enjoyed most. It wasn\u2019t anything extraordinary \u2013 we\u2019d usually go hang out at someone\u2019s house, get some burgers or pizza, and just have an old-fashioned good time. And so, on those simple Saturday afternoons and evenings, the seeds of my vocation to the priesthood were growing, though I didn\u2019t realize it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On my Own<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After graduating from high school in the spring of 2002 \u2013 and a summer flipping burgers at McDonald\u2019s \u2013 my parents dropped me off for my first year on my own at the university of LSU in Baton Rouge. As they drove off, I remember blasting Handel\u2019s \u201cHalleluia\u201d chorus from the apartment where I was staying with two good friends. I was free! No one could tell me when to go to bed, when to get up, what to eat, and when it was\u2026time to go to church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that my parents would no longer be providing me a ride to Mass on Sundays, I had to choose whether or not to continue as before. If before I went to Mass because my parents brought me, now<\/em> I would only go if I<\/em> wanted to. Thanks be to God, the faith had become something vital for me, something not that I did, but lived<\/em> \u2013 and so the choice to continue was easy. On top of that, the two friends I was living with were both good catholic men and a year ahead of me. For that reason, it was very easy for me to connect with the other Catholics on campus since they had already made friends the year before. It was clear that God\u2019s providential hand was guiding me every step of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer after my first year of college, I was invited to be a counselor at a summer camp in North Carolina called camp \u201cChosatonga\u201d. That summer, I experienced what it meant to be a father and teacher. I was assigned a group of boys to take care of for a 3-week and a 5-week camp session. I had to help the younger boys through homesickness and talked to the older boys about relationships and purity. On multiple-day camping trips, I was the one responsible for their safety, fun, and conversations about God. It was such an awesome experience that I was planning to repeat it the following summer, but God had other plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast Track<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My second year of college was better than the first. That year I started going to daily mass with around 20-30 other students on campus. That year I also learned about Regnum Christi<\/em> from some of the other catholic men on campus. There was something different about them. They were the most solid, well-formed, and fun<\/em> people I had ever met. With them, I\u2019d arrive to the football stadium 4 hours before the LSU Tigers\u2019 football games in order to wait in line and get the best seats. With them, I\u2019d also talk about what we thought God\u2019s will was for us in our life. It was the first time that \u201cGod\u2019s will\u201d became something that I thought about. If it weren\u2019t for those friends, I wouldn\u2019t be writing this vocational testimony right now. They invited me to their Encounter with Christ<\/em> one day \u2013 essentially a Gospel reflection which leads to action. They showed me the importance of making commitments and staying true to them in the life of faith, as well as the importance of accountability and community for living that life authentically. I wasn\u2019t yet a member of Regnum Christi<\/em>, but those experiences sure made me start thinking about it seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year I also met an awesome Catholic girl who \u201cchecked off all the boxes\u201d \u2013 she was a good Catholic, wanted a big family, she was a great cook, and she was beautiful\u2026 And she was also considering joining Regnum Christi<\/em>. So if she<\/em> was thinking about it, all the more reason for me<\/em> to consider it too! I remember going to pray at a perpetual adoration chapel not far from campus to ask God what he wanted of my life. I had been invited to go on a silent retreat the next weekend on which, if I desired, I could become a member of Regnum Christi<\/em>. So I got on my knees and started praying a rosary for that intention: \u201cGod, what do you want of me? I\u2019ll do whatever you want.\u201d As soon as I made the sign of the cross to end the rosary, a lady comes up from behind me, hands me a prayer card, and says \u201cI\u2019m praying for you.\u201d As she walked away I turned the prayer card around and noticed it was a \u201cPrayer for Vocations\u201d card with an image of Pope John Paul II on it. She had scribbled on the back: \u201cAre you interested in a young men\u2019s spiritual exercises retreat this weekend?\u201d alone with her phone number. It was the exact retreat I had just finished praying about! God has never sent me a fax or email, but that is as close as it\u2019s ever gotten for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suffice to say, I became a Regnum Christi<\/em> member that weekend and started receiving spiritual direction. About the same time, some of my friends began to suggest that I do the \u201ccandidacy\u201d program in Cheshire, Connecticut with the Legionaries of Christ. I had no idea what the candidacy program was. They explained that it was a summer discernment course at the seminary of the Legionaries of Christ. A few of them had done it before and they discerned that it wasn\u2019t God\u2019s will for them. However, I had been getting my hopes up to return to camp Chosatonga for a second summer since I enjoyed the first one so much. Plus<\/em>, the girl who \u201cchecked off all the boxes\u201d was planning on going too, so we\u2019d be able to see each other on the weekends. The plot thickened\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo sign will be given\u201d (Mt 12:39)<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I only had a few months until summer and had to make a choice. The -toughest decisions to make aren\u2019t the ones between a good and a bad thing. Rather, the toughest decisions to make are between two good<\/em> things. Which one did God want me to do? Should I repeat the amazing summer experience I had the year previously, at a great Catholic camp, with awesome faith-filled counselors and a beautiful, good Catholic girl? Or should I go and visit the seminary for a summer? I couldn\u2019t decide. I didn\u2019t know what God wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It got to the point where I had the application for the summer candidacy program \u2013 with all the necessary documents \u2013 filled-out, sealed, and stamped in an envelope. But I also<\/em> had the contract for the summer camp filled-out, sealed, and stamped in an envelope. I just had to decide which one to send in the mail. I needed someone to tell me what to do, so I scheduled a spiritual direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way to see my spiritual director, I stuck both envelops on the dashboard, near the window of the minivan I drove, and rolled down the window. I thought to myself: \u201cOk, if a gust of wind sucks out one of the -envelopes, I\u2019ll just send the other one in the mail \u2013 problem solved!\u201d Unfortunately, as I pulled in to park for the spiritual direction, I saw that neither one of the envelopes had been \u201ctaken.\u201d Sadly, I brought them in and set them down before my spiritual director and said, \u201cI need to make a decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t remember anything my spiritual director told me that afternoon, but I do remember that he told me he couldn\u2019t make the decision for me. \u201cStrike two!\u201d I thought. The winds of fate didn\u2019t decide for me, my spiritual director wouldn\u2019t decide for me, so I guess\u2026I had to make the decision for myself. Though I don\u2019t remember anything he said to me \u2013 no enigmatic gospel phrase or teaching of Jesus \u2013 I do remember walking away convinced of a number of things. The first is: that God desires my happiness even more than I myself could ever desire it. The second? God\u2019s will is what will ultimately fill my heart\u2019s deepest desires. The third: Regardless of whether I was called to be a priest or get married, God must be the number one priority in my life, no matter what. Fourth: Doing God\u2019s will was the best thing<\/em> I could do, not only for myself, but for those that I love: my friends, my family, the girl\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in a paradoxical way, all of the things that I loved motivated me to give them up<\/em> \u2013 to put God and his will as the number one, over-riding priority in my life. It was through his will that I could best love others, even if it meant detaching myself from them all. And even though I sought some kind of sign, or wanted someone else to make the decision for me, I learned that God wants me to be free to choose Him, and those things would have constrained<\/em> me, not allowing me to choose him freely in love. Plus, even if I was given a sign, I might interpret it incorrectly. Thank God I wasn\u2019t given any signs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hundred Times More (Mk 10:30)<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And so, I reasoned that one summer wasn\u2019t all that much to \u201coffer up\u201d to God. Since I wanted to objectively put him in the first place<\/em> in my life, the candidacy program was a concrete way to do that. It was a hard, beautiful, difficult, and amazing summer which \u2013 quite literally \u2013 changed my life. The lifestyle change wasn\u2019t easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy. In fact, the next couple years were marked by difficulties and doubts, but the foundation of my spiritual life \u2013 God\u2019s love for me and his desire for my happiness \u2013 kept me above water even when I felt like I was drowning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only have I survived<\/em> as a religious and priest of the Legionaries of Christ, but as each year passes, life just keeps getting better<\/em>! I never would have thought that I could actually look forward to the hour of prayer that we have every morning before Mass, but I do! I wouldn\u2019t trade those moments of intimacy with God in prayer for anything. To have such a relationship with God is the one great happiness of the priest. And community life is great<\/em>. To live alongside other amazing, talented, and holy men who are also seeking to give their lives to Christ for the building-up of His kingdom is a constant source of inspiration for me. I guess you could say that Christ\u2019s words came true in my life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.\u201d (Mark 10:29-30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Nathan Torrey, LC was born in Slidell, Louisiana on September 7th<\/sup>, 1984. He became a Regnum Christi member on November 9th<\/sup>, 2003 while studying at the university of Louisiana. In 2004 he entered the Novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut and made his first profession in 2006, after which he studied one year of humanities. In 2007 he went to Rome and completed a bachelor\u2019s degree in philosophy in 2009. After philosophy, he worked with ECYD and vocational promotion for three years in Philadelphia, USA. He made his perpetual profession of vows in 2012 and returned to Rome to study a masters in philosophy. After completing his master\u2019s degree, he worked for one year as assistant to the humanists in Monterrey, Mexico and returned to Rome in 2015 and completed his bachelor\u2019s degree in theology in 2018. He is currently an assistant to the novices in Cheshire, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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