What is Your Discernment Story?

Film Focus: Three young men from the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Fr. Branson Hipp, Fr. Brian Bufford, and Brian Lee discuss their vocational call to the priesthood in this video.

Text Focus: Pages 269-271

Discussion Questions:

1. Discuss some similarities and differences between each of the three seminarians’ stories.
2. What role did their family and friends have in their discernment to the priesthood?
3. What was each man’s reaction when they initially felt the call to the priesthood?
4. What steps did each man take after they felt that they were called to the priesthood?

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