Vocation Boom! Road Show during National Vocation Awareness Week

This week is National Vocation Awareness Week, the period set aside each year by the Church to increase the visibility and appreciation of Church vocations. At Vocation Boom!, we’re blessed to be able to offer our contribution to this special week by airing the first series of radio shows that are part of the Vocation Boom! Road Show.

All this week on Catholic radio stations across the United States, I’ll be hosting either live or pre-recorded shows that will feature bishops, priests, vocation directors, seminarians and their family members, and laypeople who are all as passionate as we are at Vocation Boom! about promoting vocations to the priesthood.

While National Vocation Awareness Week is designed to focus on all the different vocations within the Church, Vocation Boom!’s specific mission is to work for an increase in vocations to the priesthood. And if our week of radio shows is any indication, the future of priestly vocations is very bright.

My guests will include:

• Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul–Minneapolis
• Msgr. Eugene Morris of the Archdiocese of St. Louis
• Fr. Eric Andersen, a newly-ordained priest in the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, and his mother, Sharon, who will give us her perspective on having a son who’s a priest
• Tom Hickey, a father and grandfather, and a former Protestant minister and missionary studying at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, who will be ordained a Catholic priest in May
• Fr. David Toups, Associate Director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations
• Two young men just out of high school who are in formation at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit
• And many more

The Vocation Boom! Road Show will air at various times around the country. If you’re not sure whether there’s a Catholic radio station in your area, you can check here. The shows will air Monday through Friday from 5-6 p.m. Central Time on Relevant Radio, including live broadcasts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Each new year brings new opportunities and new resolutions. Please make one of your resolutions be to encourage the young men you know to consider a vocation to the priesthood. And if you would be so kind, please also consider supporting the work of Vocation Boom! by making a financial contribution which will be used to help us continue our mission.

God bless!
Jerry Usher

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