Once I started praying the entire Rosary everyday and going to daily Mass, the desire for religious life became stronger and stronger. The third convent I visited was where I finally found rest! Through Mary, I believe that I have found what I was made for!

I am a young man who strongly feels called to the priesthood. Please pray for me.

I will join Carmel next month. I want to be a Religious Brother. Please remember me in your prayers. Thank you!❤

Well I was just accepted to seminary today so I hope so! Keep me in your prayers! God bless, Luke.

I've been thinking about joining the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. I'm going to schedule a phone call with them. Please pray for me . God Bless You Gabi🙏

from book( To Save a Thousand Souls) Who Will You Bring With You Into Heaven? I once heard a priest tell his vocation story. I grew up in a very close, devout Catholic family with loving parents and we prayed together as a family every day. I attended a Catholic school with wonderful teaching Sisters and everything in my life revolved around the Church. I lived in a very Catholic culture. I was the number one altar server, the star student, and a leader in my class. Because of this, and the fact that I loved being around the parish, serving and helping out the priests, everyone would say the same thing, “You will be a priest when you grow up. Won’t you?” I heard this constantly from the other kids in my class, from the sisters who taught me, and from the two assistant priests, who were always visiting the classes and interacting with me around the church. But I never heard it from the pastor, which I appreciated. I got tired of people urging the priesthood on me, because I did not especially want to become a priest. I always wondered why the pastor, an elderly Monsignor, never asked me about priesthood as everyone else did, though he was always very kind to the altar servers. One day, as I was coming close to graduation from the parish school, I was assigned to serve the seven o’clock morning Mass and the elderly pastor was the celebrant. Only the two of us were in the sacristy and he vested in silence, mumbling the vesting prayers in Latin and preparing himself for Holy Mass. With just two minutes to go before the Mass began, the Monsignor suddenly turned and said, “John, what will you be doing when you grow up?” I thought to myself, “Oh boy, here it comes. Even from Monsignor.” But I replied, “Monsignor, I am still not certain but I am thinking about going into medicine. I would like to become a doctor.” And the pastor replied, “Good. Good. And what will you do after that?” I said, “Well, I suppose I will marry and have a family of my own.” The priest said, “Good, and what after that?” Not sure exactly where he was going with this line of questioning, I replied, “I guess I will grow old, practicing medicine, and eventually retire. And then I guess I will die and go to heaven.” The pastor nodded his head knowingly, thoughtfully, and he was quiet for a few seconds. Then he looked at me earnestly and said, “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” Immediately, he rang the sacristy bell and we walked out to begin the Mass. I thought to myself, “How clever you are, Monsignor. How clever you are.” I thought about that comment all during the Mass and many more times during my adolescent and young adult years. “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” It was asking myself that question repeatedly that really turned the tide and convinced me eventually that I should become a priest. Every vocation is about helping other people reach heaven. I tell this story not to minimize the greatness of the sacrament of marriage, because marriage serves the same purpose! I suppose the young man might have used the same comment made by the pastor to move him towards the vocation of marriage. But the story illustrates the critical point that a vocation is not primarily about self-fulfillment, but about being the instrument of God in saving others. “What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?” Pope John Paul II

I need everyone pray as i have a strong calling for priesthood and next year i am asked to join the seminary.

I was discerning my vocation, finally i found this, i feel peaceful after hearing this. Powerful preaching

I'm a recent convert and the idea of becoming a religious sister has been crossing my mind and heart lately. This is what I've needed to hear!

I’m almost graduating and I felt a calling but I’m scared because my family wouldn’t want me to. But I don’t want to miss the chance.

I am 23 years old. I think I have a vocation for the priesthood can you all pray for me for my discernment.

Please pray for my religious vocation, that i may be accepted into a Traditional Catholic order, especially in the order of our Lady, the Carmelite order.

Please pray for my vocation. I feel a pretty strong calling, and have for a while now, but also want to resist. Please pray for me.

Brilliant!! Mary is our lighthouse guiding us on our vocational voyage.

This priest is truly blessed in his ability to convey these words so eloquently.

Please pray for me, to be not afraid!

In the morning before i listened to this talk i was hearing the voice of Christ in eucharistic adoration saying to me: Follow me! It wasn't coincidence that i listened this video some hours later. Praised be Jesus Christ!

The craving for something more despite all achievements & the emptiness that Father had are very things that happen to me now too. I will pray 15 decades for more assurances if i am called for priesthood life.

Thank you so much for this video. The Newman Center at my university was run by Dominican priests and sisters, and I started feeling like the religious life was for me. I dated a girl in my last year of university, but we broke up, and ever since then, I've felt drawn back to thinking about religious life. I also started reading on Benedictine monasticism, and now I'm debating between the Dominicans and Benedictines. Part of me still worries that marriage could also be my calling, and I'm also worried that I won't be able to support my parents and brothers financially if I choose the religious life (especially since we live in an area that's becoming more expensive by the day). Then there's also the part of me feeling that choosing the religious life is cowardly because I'm "escaping" the demands of living in the real world with a career and a family. This video calmed these worries and reinforced the fact that, yes, God is calling me. And that it's not cowardly to want to give up everything to follow Him. The only question left is which order I want to join. I'm going to visit a Benedictine abbey and a Dominican priory near me. The charisms of both orders really interest me, so it's going to be a hard decision.

Please keep me in your prayers for the vocation in my life according to the Lords plan✝️🙏

I wept through out this video 😭😭. Thanks thanks and thanks for this video. I have been running from my vocation, the devil made me to believe that am not worthy of the vocation 🥺🥺. I hope God call's is it in my life and I hope he forgives me.

Please pray for my marriage🙏

I was thirsty for God again and you gave me something spiritual to drink again. Thanks from Italy... again! 😁

Greetings from Orthodox Greece 🇬🇷☦ God bless +

Gabby thanks to you. I’m starting to be a truly Catholic. Thanks for all your hard work with these videos

I was just thinking and doubting what is my vocation. And this video shows up on youtube. I'll follow the advice and see what happens.

Wonderful video! Can you make a similar video but to the vocation of Marriage. God Bless you

Ever since i had a Nun stay at my parents' house for some days, I felt a strong feeling to give more of myself to God. After living the different lives of different religious orders, i didn't feel that was my vocation so i went for a retreat at an Opus Dei centre and there i found peace 🕊️

This gives me hope. Though I don’t think that I deserve to join a religious order coz I used to practice homosexual lifestyle, and I tried reaching out to several religious orders, two of them turned me down. One order offered though to discern with me but I am always told to continue discerning. I have been discerning for 5 months now and the desire to join the brotherhood is still there. Praying the rosary every day and attending mass give me a consolation coz I have no idea what else do I need to do.

Only God give us joy and peace, no human will, I found that out through experience.

I started praying the complete Rosary everyday for 2 months now (except when I'm so tired - only 5 decades). I really love praying it in front of our chapel tabernacle at my workplace. Overwhelming peace. I just want to lay down and be there forever hahaha. For some reason as well, I love to go to our city's perpetual adoration frequently when I get the chance. I love praying devotions as well, especially the Holy Face devotion and the Friday Stations of the Cross. My mother just told me I might be using religion as my scapegoat for my professional growth, so I'm getting second thoughts if indeed I'm just getting away from reality. Isn't Jesus more real than this temporal life? Please pray for me. I just started daily mass this week.

This just popped up out of nowhere and it came at the perfect time when I needed this. Thank you 🙏🏻

I am going into the Benedictine. Ill be praying hard for the world everyday for its conversion. Please pray for me!

Beautiful ❤🙏😇✝️ so sincere. Thank you 💞 I am on my way to entering Carmel as a postulant. Please pray for me as I will pray for you ✝️🕊️

This is just beautiful! Father please pray for us! I will pray for vocations, God bless you

Wow! “Come and See.” Our Lord is calling. I’ve got 5 grandsons, I pray one will answer the call of a priestly religious vocation. And I’ve got 3 granddaughters perhaps one will answer the call of a consecrated life. 🙏🎚🙏

This has been on my heart lately. I feel like God used this video to speak to me and I feel at peace after watching it. Thank you.

🙏God bless all 🙏,I follow you my Lord 🙏

Thanks for this one! This really spoke to me, especially because of many reasons including I began reading the Gospels recently, I was thinking about my vocation recently and, I just realized, I was praying about it today, he also mentioned my confirmation saint, and other reasons ones too but that would make this comment pretty long. Please pray for me Mr. Gabe. I hope to discern/visit next summer. I also though have a feeling that I'm going crazy if I enter religious life, since its just not really common. Pray for me, and thanks for everything you do for Jesus and Mary. AMDG

Remember me in your prayers. Amen🙏

God bless and may he always be your strength and guide you to be a good priest

I feel the call but three priests won’t help guide me and encourage the call to the pries hood

This wonderful ! Thank you for taking the time to make this! And for saying YeSs to God! 🌟 God Bless you and your family! 🙏💫

Good vocation and happy new life ❤

I was part of a religious community for six years. I left the congregation three years ago. My sisters and I share deep feelings of gratefulness and love. Nevertheless, it has been a HARD journey. I started a discernment process with the Sisters of Life, and a couple of weeks ago I received a "no" as an answer (simply because I professed my first vows in the other community and their rule doesn't allow it). Please, pray for me. I'm devastated and the path is being so painful.

Next year I'll be joining.....pray for me

'I will slways be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.' Frederico García Lorca.

Please pray for me, I have a vocation to priesthood but a strong resistance from my father 🙏

So beautiful!!!!! Praise be to Jesus and Honour to our dear Lady Mother Mary🌹🌹🌹

God bless you so much for making yourself available for God through the Catholic ministry, I only discovered your channel few days ago, but I've so discovered much about my faith than all my entire years of existence, Thanks for saying yes to Jesus and her mother, I desire to propagate our mother Mary too, I hope she provides me with all of the insights that I need... I think she lead me to your channel too. Loves from🇳🇬

Thank you so much for this Father. I am discerning my vocation to Carmelite and I am going to write to mother superior of the order of JMJ in Pennsylvania. God bless you all

WOW It’s all I can say God bless Thank you

Thank you Father. This video moved my heart to tears. I don't read the Bible too much, but today before I watched the video I did opened it on Matthew 4:18 providentially. please pray for me.

I am discerning a call to the Permanent Diaconate, and @ 9:43 was a wonderful blessing from God! Thank you Father, thank you GabbiAfterHours and thanks be to God!

😢 sobrang Pina iyak ako ng message na ito 😢 Gusto ko talaga pumasok ng seminary upang maging Pari Kaya lang Isang kahig Isang tuka Naman ako 😢

Thank you, Father

Thank you this was so inspiring.

This is what I have been looking for. Thank you Father for being available and enlightening the word. Thank you. Praise Jesus!

This was beautiful! Thank you so much for this video

Thank you. God bless you 🙏

I needed this

SIMPLY and BEAUTIFULLY GORGEOUS. GOD BLESS you and PRAY HOLY SPIRIT STRENGTHEN and HOLD you STEADFASTLY in your Priesthood vocation. BLESSED MOTHER PLEASE BESTOW GRACES UPON you and ALL your Priesthood Brothers World in desperate NEED of Priests like yourself in these difficult times. THa

A new, marvellous video! Deo gratias. In your kindness pray for me please. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much 🙏

St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in VA!

Thank you so muxh I loved this, it was joyful and challenging and loving.

What a poignant message layered with so much meaning and depth.This sermon is truly a work of God’s art that asks something from you. Thank you Gabi for another great video! 🧖🏻‍♂️👍🏼

🤍 Thank You!

Thank you for sharing.. It was great & I'm touched by the Lord..

Gaby thank you so much amen

Gabi plzz pray for me.

Fr, i was so touched where you find urself in peace n God calls you in adoration and sacred blessed sacrament. Cuz i have this experience where i enter a chapel at 3pm. I felt something i couldnt explain but i felt peace after entering the chapel. I joined the old folks reciting the rosary. Is that a sign for me?😢

God bless you Gabi 🙌🙏🙏🙏🙏

I love everything about this video 🙏✝️🛐💙

Thanks

Amen!

This was very moving...another great video as usual.

Beautiful

Yeah. I'm going to Disneyland for a week in August. Can't wait! 🙏

Great video, thanks so much! Please pray for my as I speak with the Director of Consecrated & Religious Life for the first time tomorrow as I begin my discernment to my call to be a Consecrated Virgin Living in the World! I got my calling on Pentecost, and 12:30-13:30 really resonated with how I felt. Blessings!

AMEN.

Deeply touch by your testimony Fr. Thank you and God bless you more. I am discerning for a religious life too and showed up already but I wasn´t able to enter yet due to some responsibilities in the family. Pray for me my dear brethren in Christ to persevere until the end despite many obstacles and distractions. Entrusting and surrendering to God everything. May God´s will be done. I believe if this is what God really wants for me, nothing is impossible. For now, praying the full mysteries of the Rosary, daily mass and devotion to Mama Mary, St. Joseph, my guardian angel and patron saints helps me a lot not to lose sight on what God has put in my heart. United in prayers.To God be the glory!

Thank you for this beautiful video. God bless you always in abundance. God love our great Shepherds.

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Discerning a vocation as an only child from a very family-oriented culture has been and continues to be so difficult for me. I feel like I am running out of time, but recently, the door seemed to open again to the possibility that this could be my vocation. I wept throughout this video -- one, because of this continuing restlessness, and two, because of the hope and encouragement your advice gives. Thank you and God bless you, brother. Please pray for us.

13:58 great quote

Amén 🙏🏻💙🕊️🛐

For a couple of months now I’ve been studying Angelology. It started as an ADHD hyperfixation because I really wanted to create a drawing of the three Archangels. For the last three weeks I keep going back to St. Gabriel the Archangel non-stop. My heart’s been aching wanting to know more and more about the being who got to tell Our Mother about The Savior. It won’t leave me no matter how much I pray and ask what does this mean, and if it’s not from God, for it to begone. But it’s not leaving and I don’t know what to do. This video started with Be Not Afraid. I kinda am afraid right now.

Fr Brett Brannen Discernment is not a choice between good and evil, but often a choice between the good and the best. What is best for you is your proper vocation. # “There are only three kinds of persons; those who serve God, having found Him; others who are occupied in seeking Him, not having found Him; while the remainder live without seeking Him and without having found Him. The first are reasonable and happy, the last are foolish and unhappy; those between are unhappy and reasonable.” # All fears can be overcome by increasing one’s faith, hope, and love. In fact, it is not overly simplistic to state that every problem known to man can be fixed by these three theological virtues # God is infinite in power and he loves me infinitely. There is no snatching out of his hand. God will never send me where his grace cannot sustain me. If he asks me to do something difficult, like become a priest, he will give me the grace to do it. I will not fail because he is with me. And I will be happy because I am doing his will. Even if I lack some of the needed qualities, God will help me develop them. In his will lies my peace.

Fr Brett Brannen The Vocational Pre-Determination by God When I was a vocation director, I would visit the Catholic schools in my diocese to teach the children about vocations. I explained to them that before God had even created the world, he knew them and he loved them. He already knew your name, he knew every thought you would ever think, he knew how many hairs were on your head, he knew your sins, he knew your good deeds, and he even saw the moment of your death and your entrance into heaven. And God had already decided your vocation before he had even made the world! Or at least, he had already planned to which vocation you would be called. When it finally became time for you to be born, God created your soul to go inside your tiny body, and it was created specifically for that pre-determined vocation. I call this concept the vocational pre-determination by God, or vocational pre-destination. If God is calling you to marriage, then he prepared your soul and gave you the gifts of body and soul to live out the vocation of marriage. If God is calling you to priesthood, then your soul and body were made with that vocation in mind. This will be an important hint for you as you discern. Look at the gifts God has given to you and where those gifts are best used to build up the Kingdom.

I grew up with a lot of family dysfunction and believed a lot of lies about myself and God. It made it tremendously hard to discern my vocation because I really thought that God just wanted me to suffer or that I should make up for the deficiencies of others. It also drove me crazy that, because I truly desired to give myself to God and practiced prayer, everyone asked me if I was going to be a nun. I knew that everyone was called to be holy no matter what the vocation but I felt that if no one was going into religious life, I could answer the call- make it right for everyone, I'll do it if every one else is being stingy. Thankfully I spent time in prayer everyday so that God could speak or more importantly- not speak. He never ever asked me to marry him. After years of painful discernment I got so tired of the battle in my head that I spent the entire summer just praying about union with God. At the end of the summer I was walking across the parking lot to go to daily Mass and suddenly it was as if I had always known. I am celebrating my tenth wedding anniversary this year and have four lovely children. Through my husband and marriage God has begun and will finish his good work in me. It is incredible what God can do in and through you when you truly let him have his way with you.

Thank you for this video. Please pray for me for my vocation 🙏 God bless!

I stand with Bishop Strickland, a real shepherd of Christ. Take up you Rosary and pray for him. Pax Christi

Great video 👌😊

Please do one on St Paul I love your videos I would love to see on on St Paul The Apostle :)

I can't stop thinking about becoming a Priest. No matter what I do, I come back to it. I'm so scared though. I don't feel worthy, I don't feel like the right choice, I have tattoos and I don't feel like a good enough person. I don't want to disobey this calling but I keep looking for ways out, to run as Jonah did. It's such a strong calling though. How do I let go of my fears to say "Yes" to it?

Wow Brother, I felt as though this video was meant for me. I have always been drawn to the priesthood. When I was a child I would even play being a priest. Yet now I feel so unworthy due to my sinfulness. I struggle with different vices and different emotional distress. Any advice? Please keep me in your prayers. What’s your e-mail? I’d like to send you my prayer intentions.

I wish this priest were at my parish.

I may not have a vocation… but i have a mission, to serve God through serving our veterans who gave their all for the sake of my nations peace and freedom… If i ought to get married, i pray that God will show her the good i do, for the glory of God and for the conversion of my nation… God Bless the Royal British Legion and Pray for my vocation…