A very good morning to all of you!! As I write this, the seminary community of St. John Vianney College Seminary is hosting about 70 young men who are seeking to know God’s will for their lives during our Spring Vocations Awareness Weekend.

This morning, I would like to begin by thanking all of you who are loyal readers of this small effort on my part to promote vocations in the Catholic Church by sharing my own journey of discernment. I would also like to welcome those who may be visiting for the first time.

As many of you read on the Whispers of the Spirit blog on Thursday, over the last several months it has become increasingly difficult to keep up two blogs when you are pretty much working on them yourself. The only reasonable thing to do would be to stop posting blogs on one site and focus on the site where I post more articles. Therefore, Whispers of the Spirit will no longer be updated with new information, effective immediately. The work of promoting vocations will continue on this site.

There will be some changes to my discernment blog in the next few months. In fact, if you look at the top of your page now, you will already see something that has transferred from Whispers of the Spirit–“US Vocations Offices”. Information regarding all of the Vocations Offices from all of the Dioceses and Archdiocese in the United States are on that page. Check it out. More changes are on the way.

Thank you, again, for your continued prayers and support! A person’s journey in seminary is not the easiest thing in the world, as I am sure you all can tell from my posts here over the last couple of years. However, knowing that there are people praying for you nonstop is a reassuring feeling; it lets me know that the Lord is with me and will help me persevere in all the struggles that may come my way.