New vocations film encourages priests to be 'Fishers of Men'

Published: 2006-03-15

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With the mid-March premiere of "Fishers of Men," an 18-minute film on DVD that shows many facets of a priest's daily life, "all the elements are in place" for dioceses to join in a new vocations fulfillment and recruitment project sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, according to the head of the USCCB Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation. Father Edward J. Burns, executive director of the secretariat, said the Priestly Life and Vocation Summit: Fishers of Men project is intended to renew priests' sense of fulfillment in their vocation and to encourage them to draw on that satisfaction to invite other men to pursue the priesthood. The project was developed by the USCCB Committee on Vocations. "Through workshops for priests, the goal of this project is to renew and regenerate the priesthood in the United States," Father Burns said. "It is intended to help priests articulate the joy in their vocation that the overwhelming majority of priests feel and to give them confidence that if they extend the invitation to consider the priesthood, they will find that Catholic men today, especially young men, are open to the challenge," he added.

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