“Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience” Says Pro Soccer Player of His Call to the Priesthood
“I discerned, through prayer, that it was calling me to the Catholic Church. I do not want this call to pass me by.”
Hilgenbrinck accepted the calling on Monday when he left the New England Revolution and retired from professional soccer to enter a seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
“It’s not that I’m ready to leave soccer. I still have a great passion for the game,” he said in a telephone interview. “I wouldn’t leave the game for just any other job. I’m moving on for the Lord. I want to do the will of the Lord, I want to do what he wants for me, not what I want to do for myself.”
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Brian Kelly :: Jul.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: No Comments »
