Vocations Office - Books
Fr. Paul Sullivan
Director
602-354-2005
Father Matt Lowry
Assistant Director
928-779-2903
Books on Vocation Discernment
To Save a Thousand Souls:
A Guide for Discerning a Vocation to Diocesan Priesthood
- Fr. Brett Brannen
Discerning the Will of God
– Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV
Personal Vocation:
God Calls Everyone By Name-
Dr. Germain Grisez and Russell Shaw
What Does God Want
– Fr. Michael Scanlon
Discovering Your Personal Vocation
– Herbert Alphonso, S.J.
Is Jesus Calling You To Be A Catholic Priest?
A Helpful Guide – Fr. Thomas Richter
Radical Surrender;
Letters to Seminarians – Fr. Michael Najim
Paths of Love:
The Discernment of Vocation According to the Teaching of Aquinas, Ignatius, and Pope John Paul II
– Joseph Bolin
Could You Ever Become a Catholic Priest?
Christopher J. Duquin & Lorene Hanley Duquin
Called by Name:
The Inspiring Stories of 12 Men Who Became Catholic Priests
– Christine Mugridge
Books on Priesthood
Priests for the Third Millennium –
Archbishop Timothy Dolan
The Priest is Not His Own
– Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Those Mysterious Priests
– Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, 2005
A Priest’s Life:
The Calling, The Cost, The Joy
– The Word Among Us Press
The Joy of Priesthood
– Msgr. Steve Rosetti
Reclaiming our Priestly Character
– Fr. David Toups
Maurice and Therese:
The Story of a Love
– Saint Therese of Lisieux
Short Catechism on the Priesthood
– St. John Vianney
The Grace of Ars
– Fr. Frederick Miller
Together on the Road:
A Vision of Lived Communion for the Church and the Priesthood
– Massimo Camisasca
Dear Father:
A Message of Love to Priests
– Catherine De Hueck Doherty
Be Holy! God’s First Call to Priests Today
– Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R.
A Celebration of Priestly Ministry:
Challenge, Renewal, and Joy in the Catholic Priesthood
– Cardinal Walter Kasper
Biographies or Autobiographies of Priests
Parish Priest:Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
– Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster
The Cure D’Ars:
St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
– F. Trochu
A Priest Forever
– Fr. Benedict Groeschel
He Leadeth Me
– Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
Edmund Campion
– Evelyn Waugh
From Slave to Priest:
A Biography of the Reverend Augustine Tolton (1854 – 1897):
First Black American Priest of the United States – Caroline Hemesath
Treasure in Clay
– Archbishop Fulton Sheen
The Grunt Padre
– Fr. Daniel Mode
A Shepherd in Combat Boots:
Chaplain Emil Kapaun of the 1st Cavalry Division
- William L. Maher
Holy Man:
Father Damien of Molokai
– Gavan Daws
The Shadow of His Wings:
The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann, OFM
- Gereon Karl Goldmann
Books on Celibacy
The Courage to be Chaste– Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR
When God Asks for an Undivided Heart
– Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR
Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Priestly Celibacy)
– Pope Paul VI, 1967
Virginity
– Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa
“…And You are Christ’s”
The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life
– Thomas Dubay, S.M.
Magisterial Documents
Presbyterorum Ordinis (Order of Priests),1965 – Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia (From the Beginning of Our Priesthood) 1959
Pastores Dabo Vobis (I will Give You Shepherds),
1992 – Program of Priestly Formation (5th Edition),
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005
