Heroic Priesthood 

Words cannot describe how much I love our Church! Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, sanctify our priests.

I'm a Baptist preacher, but I found this video to be a powerful exploration of what it means to serve Christ as a clergyman. Thanks!

God, please be with the men who will lead Your Church into the future.

This video has awaken most people of the Christ within us.

I have been discerning the Roman catholic church for a long time. It's difficult giving up my high anglican tradition. But guess for the sake of the gospel one needs to make sacrifices. Studyingmy theological degree i am drawn to discover more about the church fathers and the unity of one catholic and apostolic church. Hope one day more studies will lead me to be that priest in unity with st peters successors.

SOLDIER OF GOD, ANGELS OF GOD, GUARDIANS OF GOD, FOLLOWERS OF JESUS, EXAMPLE OF GOD, LIGHT IN THE WORLD, IS THE VERY SMILE THAT GOD TRANSMITS US TO THE WHOLE WORLD THROUGH THIS BRAVE AND HEROIC MEN. MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF THEM AND PROTECT THEM ETERNALLY.

Becoming a priest--what an amazing choice! Very few people in this world ask themselves the most important question that they could ask, and that is, "What does God want me to do?" These young men do. And what a calling they've received! Despite recent troubles in the priesthood, I still hold Catholic clergy in high regard relative to other Christian ministers. Ours give their all to Jesus, or they try to. They consecrate the host!! Wonderful video!! Many thanks.

I left the seminary but the calling and inspiration is always in my heart. I may one day enter the seminary again with a much renewed commitment and self giving.

I have so much admiration and respect for these men. I pray priests will be reverenced by all Americans- if not for their devotion to Christ then at least for their devotion to His people, the church. The priesthood is a way of laying down one's life for his friends and there is no greater love than this! You are warriors. God Bless you! (and please don't let the internet ever bum you out, we need you on here!)

Pray for our priests and all in the religious life

Sheer inspiration. Simple, compelling, and rich in delivery. Thank you very much. I am currently discerning priesthood and this video opened up new thoughts for me.

I pray for all men discerning the life of priesthood and I hold you all in my daily rosary and offer you up at Mass. In fact my Masses are now always offered for the seminarians, the Priest and the Holy Church. This is a hard and challenging life you will lead but the rewards of your life will be far greater than any suffering you will endure. Hold us all in your prayers and keep us close to your hearts as we (laity) will do the same for you. Nice video Fr. Barron.

Giving this as a gift to friends who are priests. May the Lord continue to bless us with holy servants. Let us pray for them. :)

Great to see a new generation of priests that integrate so well into the society, taking care of their body and soul!

One word...AMEN! This video is awesome! Great for anyone who is discerning.

This is really great. May all answer the call whom God has called.

Great video, Fr Robert! Keep'em up! I find it very inspirational, and now that I am finishing tomorrow's homily, a great testimony to how Christ enters the sea of our lives to surprise us, tells us to come, and then invites us to believe. Thanks.

As a married man I see the priesthood as a far more difficult vocation. I enjoyed this video very much.

Last night myself and a group of about 15 other men met with our Parish Priest, Fr. David DeJulio, St. Mark the Evangelist, Tampa Florida. We viewed and discussed Fr. Barron's video "Conversion". After watching the video we discussed how much we have enjoyed previous videos from Fr. Barron. This video "Heroic Priesthood" is another great video. It is wonderfully produced showing young men who have answered the call to become Priests while dedicating their lives to loving Jesus.

No matter the evil and immoral priest in the Church, God blesses her with vocations because He still chooses to be vulnerable in the hands of priest at the Eucharist. Priesthood is a gift not only to the Church but also to the world! Else how can the Son of Man come to feed His hungry flock, who wait on Him? Thankyou, Fr. Barron for being a priest and a beautiful video! God Bless His Church.

God Bless and thank you for answering God'd call!

So beautiful!!! Thank you Priests for bringing the world Jesus in the Holy Eucharist!! :D

Effective video. Pose the question: Do you have what it takes to serve the Church and Jesus, in becoming a priest? The priesthood is a sacrifice where your life will count for something much greater. Very wise to not soft sell the sacrifice, rather the sacrifice is to be celebrated and seen as the price of admission into a select special brotherhood.

i've been to Mundelein and prayed for help in my own vocation discernment in some of the same places i saw in the video. energizing to see them again. very awesome video.

This video is pure gold Father. Thank you for making it. I'm a seminarian at St. Patrick's in Menlo Park, California. You continue to inspire many of us seminarians. I have shared this clip on my Facebook account. Take care

Unfortunately we don't have the ordinariate south Africa. I pray that the ordinariate starts in south Africa soon.

He who serves God is close to "GREATNESS!"

Our priests need help. They need help from us. We all should help priests to be priests. Why? How? Today priests are engaged in so many tasks in parishes (just to mention few: schools, pilgrimages, renovation projects). Those tasks take time away from their main purpose as a priest. Priest primary role is to administer Sacraments to the people. We need priests celebrating Holy Mass (daily) during time when working people can attend (8am or 5pm dose not work for most of population!) to bring Jesus Christ to its people. We need priests in confessionals (before daily Holy Mass), to bring peace to wounded souls. We need priest to have time for their parish members. Priest are busy, we need to help them with tasks we can do, so they can serve use us with things we can't do. Help your priests!

Who knew basketball played such a role? I guess I wouldn't have survived seminary - at my best I could make a hoop maybe 1 out of a dozen tries so long as nobody was blocking me. But I'd like to paddle a canoe in that lake. Mundelein looks like a beautiful place.

I just imagined the priest on the beach storming Normandy (because of the music) and meeting priests with rosary beads and fellow followers in Christ. We can only dream I suppose. Still, it's a goal worthy of persuit. God bless our priests. They have hearts of lions with a difficult task ahead.

God bless you! Go and spread the Good News of Jesus to all the World!

What a wonderful video!

Beautiful! God bless all our priests! Protect them and keep them Lord. I humbly offer that all priests should be Marian priest. Consecrate your priesthood through the Virgin Mary to Christ. There simply is no higher way to the Holy Trinity than through the Virgin Mary! It is my prayer that all priests make the Saint Louis De Montfort consecration to the Blessed Virgin. It has forever changed my life. I want to make this true devotion to Mary more known. What a blessing it would be if all seminarians made this consecration!

My current favorite sport is swimming and football. I use my skills to teach youth as a religious Brother.

This was awesome!

Wonderfully done.

Great video! You should do one of these for the sisters/nuns!

Wow. This is so beautiful... Excellent work!

I want to watch this movie! :)

God our Heavenly Father I pray that you bless and protect all priests, and may many men hear their calling for priesthood. Without them we can't have your beloved son in the most Blessed Sacrament. Increase their numbers and increase their faith and love to serve you through serving your children. Father I ask that you protect them from this world and from the evil one who seek to destroy your son's Church. In Jesus name I pray, through Mary's intercession. Amen

Thank you

Damn that was badass

This is a magnificent video. Thanks so much. And while it focuses on the heroic priesthood (and for good reason) , it is also a moving and powerful description of what it means to be a Catholic Christian -- to follow Jesus. Anyone that loves life and wants to go deeper in their relationship with God will benefit from this. To be a Christian is a calling... We are all called to be saints. This video should be inspiring to all. As one of the seminarians said, "I do it for God. He has given me all these gifts." That is true of us all. Wow! Ray Glennon Twitter:@RayGlennon

It is the most terrible tragedy of the entire Church, all over the world, by all of the Christians; that all of the parishioners, don't say Mass for themselves and families and clergy. I'm not ordained by human hands, but trust me in this, I'm Very Very Very Ordained. I taught two protestants how to say Mass in minutes. I told them that I would prove to them that this works, and at 12 PM tomorrow, they would feel a buzzing sensation going through them. "That will be God going through them as I say Mass for them at 12PM," I told them. Exact at 11:55 AM the next day, I felt a buzzing sensation going through my body, like someone was saying Mass for me. They were just believing protestants and unordained, uneducated, and believers in Jesus, Our Lord and Savior. That is all, One male and One female. About 12 years ago, I said Mass for myself, and asked God to give me the knowledge of the future. About 9 years ago, I looked right into the future to see Obama win his election by 281 electoral college votes, "three days," before the voting took place. I immediately spread it all over Twitter and sent tweets off to Nancy Pelosi, MSNBC News, Kelly O'Donnell, Obama about seeing the final vote of 281; and the tweets are still on Twitter under Gary James Shields, on that time line spoken about above. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. You could have all of the Parishes, all over the planet, praying for you both to live another hundred years with age regressing body's. You could have some praying for you to have Angels with you to talk to, Healing Powers, the Ability to Walk in the Water, To be bullet proof, to be invisible whenever your need to be, to be able to levitate and fly, A N Y T H I N G ! ! ! 500,000,000 Masses all said on the same day for you two; and you would have snapped your fingers and things would have been done for you. There is still time. Time is of the Essence ! ! ! DON'T IGNORE ME ! I Speak from Experience, Verily. Ask me what to ask God to give to you and I will instantly pray and say Mass for you to receive it. Reply to me in this comment section, and I will do it for you. Faith is, replying to this message and telling me what you would want. The rest is up to me and God. Those who call upon the Name of the Lord, shall not be disappointed. ..............................................................

I just cant help but be filled with guilt because i am not called to the priesthood yet they're seriously needed

Is this a long trailer or is this the entire film?

Sports might be the only way to get into some restrictive countries. Ever think about starting a Vatican Olympic team?

Father why does this people wants me a lot ? What have I done ?

This reminds me of who St. Pope John Paul II called the “model of heroic priesthood,” Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi, who together with Theodore McCarrick, are the two most prominent icons of the clergy homosexual predation abuse scandal. Degollado was heroic for keeping a double life of being one of JPII’s most favored priests and of siring children and sexually abusing his own seminarians and priests.

Your Excellency, is there a reasonable hope that all men are saved? Please answer because I am in a crisis with my faith, and this very question is central to my angst.

+ FATHER MICHEL-MARIE, A CASSOCK IN DEEP MARSEILLE The life, works, and miracles of a priest in a city of France. Who has made the faith blossom again where it had withered. A pastor whose Masses are crowded with people. Who hears confessions every evening until late at night. Who has baptized many converts. Who always wears the cassock so that everyone may recognize him as a priest even from far away. Michel-Marie Zanotti-Sorkine was born in 1959 in Nice, to a family a bit Russian and a bit Corsican. As a young man he sang in the nightclubs in Paris, but then over the years there emerged the vocation to the priesthood he had had since his childhood. His guides were Fr. Joseph-Marie Perrin, who was Simone Weil's spiritual director, and Fr. Marie-Dominique Philippe, founder of the congregation of Saint John. He studied in Rome at the Angelicum, the theological faculty of the Dominicans. He was ordained a priest in 2004 by Cardinal Bernard Panafieu, the archbishop of Marseille at the time. He writes books, the latest of which is entitled "Au diable la tiédeur," to the devil with lukewarmness, and is dedicated to priests. He is pastor at Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. And in this parish on Rue Canabière, which leads from the old port through ramshackle houses and shops, with many homeless, immigrants, Rom, where tourists do not venture to go, in a Marseille and in a France where religious practice is almost everywhere at the lowest levels, Fr. Michel-Marie has made the Catholic faith blossom again. Why the cassock? "For me" - he smiles - "It is a work uniform. It is intended to be a sign for those who meet me, and above all for those who do not believe. In this way I am recognizable as a priest, always. In this way on the streets I take advantage of every opportunity to make friends. Father, someone asks me, where is the post office? Come on, I'll go with you, I reply, and meanwhile we talk, and I discover that the children of that man are not baptized. Bring them to me, I say in the end; and I often baptize them later. I seek in every way to show with my face a good humanity.

what does basketball have to do with god???