I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.
You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.
I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.
Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
