Recommended Reading
SCRIPTURE
The best book to read to discover God’s will is the Bible!
(See the Scripture passages in the previous section)
BOOKS ON VOCATION DISCERNMENT
What Does God Want?
Fr. Michael Scanlan
Discovering Your Personal Vocation
Herbert Alphonso, S.J.
The Meaning of Vocation in the Words of St. John Paul II
Scepter Publishing
Is Jesus Calling You To Be A Catholic Priest? A Helpful Guide
Fr. Thomas Richter, published by the NCDVD (free copy at gopriest.com)
To Save a Thousand Souls: A Gide for Discerning a Vocation to Diocesan Priesthood
Fr. Brett Brannen (free copy at gopriest.com)
Radical Surrender: Letters to Seminarians
Fr. Michael Najim
BOOKS ON THE PRIESTHOOD
Priests for the Third Millennium
Archbishop Timothy Dolan
The Priest is Not His Own
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Christ: The Ideal of the Priest
Dom Columba Marmion
The Joy of Priesthood
Msgr. Steve Rosetti
Reclaiming our Priestly Character
Msgr. David Toups
The Priest's Way to God
Fr. M. Eugene Boylan, OCSO
BOOKS ON CELIBACY
The Courage to be Chaste
Fr. Benedict Groeschel
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
Pastores Dabo Vobis (I will Give You Shepherds), 1992
Program of Priestly Formation (5th Edition), U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005
BIOGRAPHIES OR AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF PRIESTS
The Cure D’Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney
F. Trochu
He Leadeth Me
Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J.
The Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann, OFM
Gereon Karl Goldmann
