Looking for some extra help with determining the Lord’s call for your vocation? We highly recommend the resources below.
Melchizedek Project Podcasts
The Melchizedek Project Podcast is a free “crash course” on true Catholic discernment taught by Fr. Brett Brannen, following the principals in his book To Save a Thousand Souls. Each episode is approximately 15 minutes in length.
- Episode 1: What is the Priesthood?
- Episode 2: The Sacred Power of Priesthood
- Episode 3: What is a Vocation?
- Episode 4: God Said Go, and I Said No
- Episode 5: Celibacy, Chastity, Charity, and Cheerfulness
- Episode 6: Signs of a Vocation to the Priesthood
- Episode 7: Developing a Spiritual Plan of Life
Books on Vocation Discernment
- To Save a Thousand Souls: A Guide for Discerning a Vocation to Diocesan Priesthood – Fr. Brett Brannen
- Discerning the Will of God – Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV
- 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
- 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
Books on Priesthood
- Priests for the Third Millennium – Archbishop Timothy Dolan
- The Priest is Not His Own – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
- 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
Biographies or Autobiographies of Priests
- Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism – Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster
- The Cure D’Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney – F. 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 – Gereon Karl Goldmann
Books on Celibacy
- The Courage to be Chaste – Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR
- When God Asks for an Undivided Heart – Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR
- 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 – Program of Priestly Formation (5th Edition),
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005