Jan 27, 2025 | Discernment Articles
It’s easy to forget the awesome office of the priest. We see him daily offering the Mass, hearing confessions, anointing, counseling, helping his people to overcome their difficulties and sins. How often do we stop to think about what the priest really is? One way to...
Jan 27, 2025 | Discernment Articles
The extreme heroism of a few priests is well known. You’ve heard stories of priests who were martyred, or sacrificed their own lives for others, or endured great hardships for the sake of the Gospel. Imagine a man who comes home to see his house on fire, and...
Jan 27, 2025 | Discernment Articles
Sometimes God speaks to us most clearly when we do the wrong thing. This is especially true in vocation discernment. Of course, “the wrong thing” here doesn’t refer to something that’s morally wrong. Rather, we’re talking about making a choice which...
Jan 27, 2025 | Discernment Articles
What does it take to be a priest? This is the remarkable true story of an American priest martyred for his ministry. Fr. Stanley Rother, a priest for the diocese of Oklahoma City, graduated from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary back in the 1970s. He was not much of a student...
Jan 27, 2025 | Discernment Articles
You might think that the issue of priestly celibacy is a “newer” matter in the Church. After all, the Roman Church has continuously reiterated the law of priestly celibacy for most, if not all, of her history. So it seems that celibacy must have been pretty well...
