Archbishop Burke…a new Don Bosco

St. Louis will ordain nine men to the priesthood this Saturday. That is a lot! They have seen a large increase in vocations and many in St. Louis attribute it to their inspiring bishop who is willingly meets the men in formation (seminarians) where they are at. Read the entire article here.

Archbishop Burke, whether he [...]

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Throwing Your Life Away, Like Jesus, For Jesus

Every so often I meet people who not only think living a celibate life (remaining single to build up God’s Kingdom) is unnatural, but they almost feel like they have to “save me” from this “terrible” thing I’m walking into by joining the Salesians and studying to be a priest.
Sometimes the conversation goes more or [...]

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Answering the Call

Staying with the theme of vocations today here is a great eight minute interview with four young men at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Maryland.
They share their vocation stories and answer some questions. Here’s the link, I couldn’t embed it for some reason in the blog.
Thanks to Brad at Roman Catholic Vocations for sharing this.

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What are you waiting for?

I am involved in a very interesting conversation (Salesian Ning site) with a few young men about vocations and I can’t help but reflect further on the idea of when one should in fact start formation in a religious house or seminary.
When I left my job as a youth minister, to start formation with the [...]

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Am I Making All This Up?

I had two very interesting conversations last night with two young people both considering a vocation to religious life. The funniest thing about the two conversations (one over the phone and one through IM) was that both young people said the same thing at one point.
When talking about the possibility of having this kind [...]

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