Metanoia: A Catholic Book Series, Book Number Three: Vocation: Common Priest by Baptism

In Metanoia: Vocation: Common Priest by Baptism, the author chronicles his intense, personal journey through two priestly discernments, exploring whether he is called to participate in the Eternal Priesthood of Christ through Holy Orders or as a common priest by Baptism.In answering this question, the author recounts 25 years of priestly misidentifications and associations made by strangers, parishioners, family, friends, and neighbors, connecting the 50+ priest-comments with the spiritual gifts and call of a Catholic priest. 

Despite this overwhelming evidence of his sacerdotal gifts and interior call, the author explains why he will remain a layman, serving Christ, His Church, and the world as a prayerful, charitable, and faithful common priest by Baptism. 

By publishing his vocation story, the author hopes to inspire other men in discernment with their own sacerdotal gifts and interior call from Christ to complete their formal discernments and become ministerial priests, especially in light of the crisis of vocations in the West following Vatican II. 

Finally, this book is part of the author’s personal response to and promotion of the Church’s “universal call to holiness” (Lumen Gentium) and the “new evangelization” (Novo Millennio Ineunte), in the electronically and globally connected virtual world of the Internet.