The Bishops' Committee on Vocations presents a program for priests to actively invite men to consider a vocation to the priesthood. This program is entitled Priestly Life and Vocations Summit: Fishers of Men. This project is a presbyteral workshop which utilizes the appreciative inquiry method of asking priests about their most positive experiences in the priesthood.

It is the hope of the Bishops Committee on Vocations that this project will bring about a renewal of the priests in the United States and also lead to the regeneration of priesthood itself. This presbyteral workshop is based on interviews with priests. The actual convocation with the priest includes their testimonies of positive priestly experiences, establishing strategies for promoting priestly vocations, and creating a structure within the presbyterate for inviting men to consider the priesthood.

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With the premiere of the full-length DVD feature of 'Fishers of Men', the Secretariat for Vocations & Priestly Formation has now made available an overview of the DVD, a general set of discussion questions and a set of discussion questions for priests.

Learn more about the program here.

The DVD will soon be available for order on the USCCB website http://www.usccb.org/vocations/fishersofmen.shtml.

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