"A Priest is Above all...a Man of Prayer" - St. John Vianney

Special Vocations Events

Discernment Retreat - December 29 - 30, 2010

Vocations Awareness Week - January 9 - 15, 2011

World Day for Consecrated Life - February 6, 2011

World Day for Prayer for Vocations - May 15, 2011

Transitional Diaconate Ordination - May 28, 2011

Priesthood Ordination - June 18, 2011

Pray for Our Seminarians

Leonard August Pagano III was born in 1985 and nicknamed Austin. He was raised in Marietta, GA while a parishioner at Transfiguration.

Austin attended St. Josephs School beginning in 4th grade and continued his Catholic School education through high school at St. Pius X-graduating in 2003.

Austin received a B.S. in political science in 2008 from Kennesaw State University, and even co-hosted a political radio talk-show as a student.

He’s been a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Atlanta since spring 2009, and is currently spending his pastoral year at Christ the King.

See other seminarian stories featured
in AoA Monthly Newsletter

Vocations News

Fathers Tim Gallagher, Bill Hao, Omar Loggiodice, and Brian Lorei pray during their ordination to the priesthood. (Photo by Michael Alexander, The Georgia Bulletin Photo Gallery Available)

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Pope Benedict XVI's Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations

A Search for Happiness: from Finance to Fatherhood

Father Nicholas Azar's Vocation Story

Father Luke Ballman on VocationsCast.com

Our very own Father Luke Ballman, Director of Vocations, was interviewed on VocationsCast.com. Check out the two part series.

http://www.vocationscast.com/?s=ballman

Father Dan Ketter Interviewed on MSNBC

April 17: Tom Costello conducts a lunchtime roundtable with four young men studying for the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24113939#24113939

Vocations Director Sees Priesthood As ‘Great Adventure’

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Vocations Day Podcast

Check out Episode #15 of the Archdiocese of Atlanta podcasts: "I wonder what I look like in that vestment?" The Archdiocese of Atlanta held its first Annual 5th Grade Vocations Day at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Marietta on October 4, 2007. Listen as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory speaks to the 5th graders of the Archdiocese of Atlanta about the life of St. Francis of Assisi and asks them to consider giving their lives in a special way to the service of God's Church. Check it out today!

Prayer for Vocations

God, our Father, we turn to you in this time of great need. We trust in your loving kindness and ask you to hear the prayers we offer for Your Church. Through your grace, we seek men and women willing to generously offer their lives to You in the priesthood and religious life, for You inspire and bring to fulfillment every good intention.

Bless and guide those who are discerning Your call to holiness and service. Give them courage, steadfast love and a spirit of charity as they seek to respond faithfully to You.

We offer this prayer for the Archdiocese of Atlanta and for the whole Church in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, who is Lord for ever and ever.