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‘Fired Up For the Faith’: 3 Brothers From 1 Family Set to Become Catholic Priests...
"My child, make it known to Our priests in My Son’s houses upon earth, churches, that We want Our priests to shine forth as pure examples of chastity and holiness.... "The example that must be shown and given to the children of earth by Our priests must set them apart as representatives of My Son. They do not have any equal upon earth, for their vocation is a special gift of God." - Our Lady, June 18, 1974
TheBlaze reported on July 25, 2012:
When Luke Strand started college nine years ago, he wanted to earn a marketing degree, a job in the business world, then a house and children. But all of that changed — and in a profoundly transformational way.
Now he‘s a priest and that’s not all. His brother, Vincent, is on his way to being ordained a Jesuit priest and their youngest brother, Jake, was ordained in the spring.
The family calling is remarkable at a time when fewer men, especially in the U.S., are choosing the Roman Catholic clergy. More than 3,200 of the 17,800 U.S. parishes don’t have resident priests, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. As of last year, the total number of priests in the U.S. had decreased 14 percent from 2000.
So why did three men from one family sacrifice what they thought they wanted in their lives to become priests? Even their family was blindsided. The brothers’ parents, who live in Dousman, Wis., never encouraged it or discouraged it — they just never discussed it.
“It takes you off guard, (having) one after the other come and talk to us,” said their mother, Bernadette Strand.
The boys went to Catholic grade school, attended church every Sunday and prayed before dinner but weren’t “eccentric,” according to their father, Jerry. Their aunt is a member of the Poor Clare Sisters in Kokomo, Ind. His mother, Ruth, said she and her husband hoped one of their grandsons would join the priesthood.
“Grandma would always say, `Maybe one of you boys is going to be a priest‘ and I think we’d just laugh: `Whatever, grandma.‘ I mean we’re not going to study to be a priest,” Luke Strand said.
They say they all discovered their calling at the end of high school or college. All three wrestled with the decision for years, mainly because of the celibacy vow.
The first to attend seminary was the oldest, Luke, now 31 and described as the peacemaker and most social.
He said he started getting involved in the campus ministry at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and found a lot of young people “getting fired up for the faith.” But he found the priest shortage intimidating, he said. He worried he would have to serve an entire county by himself. But it was also one of his motivations.
By his senior year he found himself living with a priest in a homeless shelter “radically serving the poor and applying to the seminary. And I remember thinking to myself: `How did I get here? Like, what’s this all about?’ And ultimately it was about service in the church.”
He’s now working as vocations director for the Milwaukee Archdiocese, recruiting priests.
Described as the family academic, Vincent Strand, 29, is studying German in Austria as part of his 11 years of formation before he’s ordained.
He said his calling came at Marquette University, a Jesuit school in Milwaukee. Much like Luke, he wanted to make a lot of money as a neurologist, get married and have kids.
“I do distinctly remember thinking: `Oh good. (Luke’s) going to be the priest. I don’t have to now.’”
But a theology professor’s teachings showed him “God was real in a way I hadn’t (realized) before,” he said. And he realized he could have an intellectual life that involved God.
He considered devoting himself to God even if he got married but he knew he’d only go halfway and he wanted to “completely empty” himself. He broke up with a longtime college girlfriend to pursue his calling.
“The celibacy and that vow of celibacy has been one of the real things I love about the life and one the very freeing things about the life,” he said.
The youngest brother, 26-year-old Jacob, had the hardest time deciding. The idea frightened him.
He started thinking about the priesthood more in college, though. He originally looked into ways to serve while still being able to have a family. Then God told him to give up everything. He said he decided at the end of his sophomore year in college that he would enter the seminary.
“Initially, I was like, `Well, it’s impossible that I could also be called because Luke and Vince are taking care of that duty. I don’t need to do that.‘ But what I found it wasn’t a duty at all. It was a gift.”
He was ordained this spring and he’s now at St. Charles Parish in Hartland for the summer. He will then study another year in Rome to complete his theology license.
They all say they’re happy.
“I think society, when it looks at the priesthood, it thinks it‘s a bunch of really ancient people that are angry and aren’t enjoying life,” Luke Strand said. “Man, go look at the reality of priests’ lives. They love what they do. They are joyful. They’re happy. They are free. Isn’t that what people are looking for?”
Their parents say they have found peace with their sons’ decisions and let go of their dreams for a herd of grandchildren, though they still have their 23-year-old daughter, Theresa Krausert, who married last summer.
“We let go of that, it’s not about us,” Jerry Strand said. “It really has nothing to do with our joy because we will or won’t. That’s part of the sacrifice.”
Krausert said nothing has changed with her older brothers, who always watched out for her.
“I think they swear more than I do,” she said.
And they still pick on each other.
“We used to call him the boy deacon because he has a baby face and now we have to call him the boy priest,” Luke Strand said about Jacob, sitting nearby.
“Your one hair is out of place,” Jacob kidded Luke, who is balding.
Bernadette Strand said the family has heard lots of reactions like, “Is your daughter going to become a nun?“ Or ”I can’t believe how normal you are.”
“It‘s almost kind of ridiculous because of course we’re normal and all of the boys grew up totally normal,” she said.
The brothers say it’s a mystery to them why they all were chosen.
“Why is it so important?” Luke Strand said. “Because we realize there’s something beyond ourselves.”
"I have asked you once, I have asked you again, My children, not to abandon your parish churches. It is the plan of satan to shut the doors. Remember, My children, and I repeat again, that My Son is with you in the Eucharist. He is present with you in Body and Spirit. He will be brought to you by a legally-ordained priest, a man of God. Do not judge My Son's Church or its structure by the ways of man. The Spirit will work miracles over the corruption of the man. A legally-ordained priest is a priest for life.
"Please, My children, pray for your priests. Many are being led astray. Discipline and the rule must be followed in the priesthood. This brings great sorrow to the Eternal Father and My Son to see the manner in which the priesthood has cast aside the rule in the name of modernism and humanism." - Our Lady of the Roses, March 25, 1978
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MASS IS VALID
"Do not lose faith in My Mass. It is valid. Man may distort, but it is valid, I say! When a legally-ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church conducts this Mass, it is valid, I say!" - Jesus, December 7, 1976NO EQUAL
"My child, make it known to Our priests in My Son’s houses upon earth, churches, that We want Our priests to shine forth as pure examples of chastity and holiness.... "The example that must be shown and given to the children of earth by Our priests must set them apart as representatives of My Son. They do not have any equal upon earth, for their vocation is a special gift of God." - Our Lady, June 18, 1974HELP
"You must help your priests. It is not constructive to speak out in anger against My Son’s House, Church. If you have anything to say that you feel is being done wrong, go to the ones concerned--your priests, your bishops. Do not spread words among the disbelievers, those waiting to take anything that can be thrown back to destroy My Son’s House." - Our Lady, April 3, 1971FOR LIFE
"When a man has given himself, and chosen from out of the world as a priest of his God, he will be a priest for life." - Our Lady, March 18, 1973DO NOT BREAK
"You must still in your human nature not become prideful or arrogant. You must accept the counsel of the true priests who are in My Church. You cannot and must not break away and form your own groups.... I do not want you to leave your parish churches. I want you and counsel you as your God to remain! If you have any dispute, I ask you for the preservation of your salvation upon earth, to not cast aside the role of the priesthood as given through the Apostles, My followers. Peter was My first Pope and your first Pope, and as all others who followed him, they must be accepted. Be they weak or noble, be they with sanctity or unholiness, they must be accepted and followed." - Jesus, June 9, 1979TRADITIONALIST
"We hear all names coming forward to Our ears of churches being born anew, called the Traditional Roman Catholic Church. My child and My children, We need no more Traditionalists running around and creating new churches. We have to remain steadfast and firm in our convictions that with enough prayer, and also the firm example of holiness among many, this will not happen. We do not condemn those who make these side churches, the Traditional Roman Catholic churches; they mean well, but they are being led astray. There will be eventually an American Catholic Church if this continues. This is not approved by Heaven.... It is most urgent that this breaking away stop now before it evolves into a major schism." - Jesus, September 14, 1985REMAIN
"Do not judge My Son's Church by man. The foundation is My Son, Jesus. And though the walls may develop cracks, the foundation is solid. Will you not remain and patch these cracks, My children? We do not wish that you break apart into small groups of discord. No schisms must take place in My Son's Church. For all who are baptized a Roman Catholic must die Roman Catholics to enter Heaven." - Our Lady, November 20, 1979BADGE OF HONOR
"A duly ordained priest in the House of God shall not remove his habit. He shall not take the badge of honor of his vocation from him. In doing thus, he subjects his soul to contamination from worldly influence." - Our Lady, March 25, 1973REWARD
"The simple life, My child, is the best for the dedicated. The dedicated, those who have accepted a vocation, must live only as human beings in the world, but must accept the spiritual.... Discipline must be returned to the Orders. Many must now retire from the world that has been given to Satan. Know now, my brothers and sisters of religious orders: you will be mocked, you will be scorned, but you will please the Eternal Father and receive your reward in the Kingdom." - St. Francis of Assisi, May 28, 1975ETERNITY
"Additional graces I give unto you, My dedicated. Those who remain true to your teachings know that there is none whom you will answer to but the Father. Eternity is forever. Do not bargain your soul for the few years you have on your planet earth." - Jesus, September 13, 1974POLITICS
"You must not involve yourselves, My pastors, with the political machines of your world. It is a satanic involvement." - Jesus, May 15, 1976INSTRUMENT
"During the consecration of My Body, regardless of his human nature, whether it be saint or sinner, I come to you in full Body and Spirit. I come to you through him as a medium from God, through him as an instrument from God." - Jesus, June 18, 1977"DO NOT GO SEEKING ELSEWHERE"
"I ask you all not to abandon My Church. Do not judge My Church by the priest, for in his human nature he can err. But I assure you I am using him, as a legally ordained priest, to bring you My Body and Blood. Do not go seeking elsewhere, for you will lose your baptismal right, and you will no longer be accepted as a Roman Catholic, and you will not enter into the highest place of Heaven, the Kingdom of Paradise." - Jesus, October 6, 1980
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