Hello friends!
First, my apologies: it’s been a while since you heard from me. I do plan to share a personal update next week, so stay tuned for that if you’re into personal updates. More relevantly, I intend to get back to weekly essay writing within the next month or so. Thank you so much for your patience and for sticking around.
In the meantime, please enjoy this encouraging conversation that I had with two of my good friends about their experience of discerning, and now living, the Catholic priesthood. When I consider my reasons for hope in the face of a Church in crisis, priests like Fr. Ben and Fr. Tyler—and the excellent seminary formation that prepared them for their vocation—come quickly to mind.
A few of the topics we discussed in this episode:
What does it mean to be “called” to be a priest?
How do our own desires come into play when we are trying to do God’s will?
Why are so many priests burning out?
How have the young priests of today been shaped by the clergy sexual abuse crisis?
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Discerning and living the priesthood (w/ Fr. Ben Wittnebel & Fr. Tyler Mattson)