Books on Vocation Discernment
To Save a Thousand Souls: A Guide for Discerning a Vocation to Diocesan Priesthood Fr. Brett Brannen Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone By Name Dr. Germain Grisez and Russell Shaw What Does God Want? Fr. Michael Scanlon Discovering Your Personal Vocation Herbert Alphonso, S.J. Is Jesus Calling You To Be A Catholic Priest? A Helpful Guide Fr. Thomas Richter, published by the NCDVD Radical Surrender; Letters to Seminarians Fr. Michael Najim Paths of Love: The Discernment of Vocation According to the Teaching of Aquinas, Ignatius, and Pope John Paul II Joseph Bolin Could You Ever Become a Catholic Priest Christopher J. Duquin & Lorene Hanley Duquin |
Called by Name: The Inspiring Stories of 12 Men Who Became Catholic Priests
Christine Mugridge Tuning in to God’s Call Fr. Andrew Carl Wisdom and Sr. Christine Kiley The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide to Everday Living Fr. Timothy Gallagher Discerning the Will of God: An Ignatian Guide to Christian Decision Making Fr. Timothy Gallagher |
Priests for the Third Millennium
Archbishop Timothy Dolan The Priest is Not His Own Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 2004 Those Mysterious Priests Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 2005 A Priest’s Life: The Calling, The Cost, The Joy The Word Among Us Press The Joy of Priesthood Msgr. Steve Rosetti Reclaiming our Priestly Character Fr. David Toups Maurice and Therese: The Story of a Love Saint Therese of Lisieux |
Short Catechism on the Priesthood
St. John Vianney The Grace of Ars Fr. Frederick Miller Together on the Road: A Vision of Lived Communion for the Church and the Priesthood Massimo Camisasca Dear Father: A Message of Love to Priests Catherine De Hueck Doherty Be Holy! God’s First Call to Priests Today Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R. A Celebration of Priestly Ministry: Challenge, Renewal, and Joy in the Catholic Priesthood Cardinal Walter Kasper |
Books on Celibacy
The Courage to be Chaste Fr. Benedict Groeschel When God Asks for an Undivided Heart Fr. Andrew Apostoli Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy) Pope Paul VI, 1967 Virginity Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa “…And You are Christ’s” The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life Thomas Dubay, S.M. |
Magisterial Documents
Presbyterorum Ordinis (Order of Priests), 1965 Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia (From the Beginning of Our Priesthood) 1959 Pastores Dabo Vobis (I will Give You Shepherds), 1992 Vita Consecrata (St. John Paul II on the Consecrated Life), 1996 Program of Priestly Formation (6th Edition), U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2022 |
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster The Cure D’Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney Fr. Trochu A Priest Forever Fr. Benedict Groeschel He Leadeth Me Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. Edmund Campion Evelyn Waugh From Slave to Priest: A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854 – 1897): First Black American Priest of the United States Caroline Hemesath |
Treasure in Clay
Archbishop Fulton Sheen The Grunt Padre Fr. Daniel Mode A Shepherd in Combat Boots: Chaplain Emil Kapaun of the 1st Cavalry Division William L. Maher Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai Gavan Daws The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann, OFM Fr. Gereon Karl Goldmann Autobiography of a Hunted Priest John Gerard |
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