Celibacy can be compared to an orchestra. You don't pick an instrument and enter into an orchestra band...it involves a lot of practice, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of time, a lot of quality space and discipline.
To compete...you need more than 5months of Preparation. Not all who start in the orchestra school finish, that is how things are.
It doesn't mean that those who leave are bad at it. They may sing well except that they have difficulty of reaching the wanted note and key required for the audience. They audience have to be part of the training.
That is why the trainer will always emphasize, assume you are on an international stage of dignitaries what do want them to see and feel? Music, passion, flavour of the orchestra No!!!!!
Celibacy is not for all, that is why there is a long period of formation. To think, rethink, evaluate, contemplate, test, try, and tease outs to reach a point of right baking temperature, some may still go through but what awaits them out there, may be challenging more than what is inside the seminary walls.
By the end of the training, the seminarians will be asked with good faith to ask their Spiritual directors whether they are ready for ordination.
It's the candidate who has to be engaged with the Spiritual director, an evaluative quality assessment.
That remains confidential report between the two. Some may be told by their spiritual directors the truth but may simply feel, otherwise, they go ahead and have an engine knock. Whom do you blame in such incidence.
It is a journey, and since it's a journey one needs to prepare for any eventualities...those who come to that acceptance stage of reconing decision, make very good Christians and always ready support the church, live in marriage vows and donate generously in the field of vocation.
It's an adventure of life for some, training camp for many, but a school of love for the majority, and an academy of life for a number.
That is why parents have to be involved in the formation structure one way or another. seminary formation should be demystified and of course respected as Factory of priests. The factory too is subjected to check up routine and inspection.
The seminarians should be help to be discerned, not to be kept into walls for fear to be robbed by women, ladies, girls.
What happens when they finish formation. Do they go back to heaven or are sent to the world, to evangelize, and talk of the reign of God. They ought to be true men made of flesh and blood, active and alive and yet consecrated, set aside for a mission, that is what the mother Church wants, not timid, shy and not here nor there ministers of God or men of the clothe.
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