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Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Needville, TX Home Parish: St. Anthony Marie de Claret, Kyle Casey Owen Dworaczyk After graduating from Texas State University, I began to take my faith more seriously. I fell in love with Mass and His Divine Mercy. One night, I was in silent prayer, and I heard very clearly from God that I should…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Cancun, MX Home Parish: St. Mary's Catholic Center, College Station Emiliano Diaz Gonzalez Before 2022, the thought of the priesthood had never crossed my mind. However, that changed when I visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I saw a priest walk by, and the thought “that could be you” sprang into my…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Laredo Hometown: Laredo, TX Home Parish: St. Jude, Laredo Osvaldo Abraham De Leon I attended a vocational retreat in 2017, but never felt God’s calling to the priesthood, even though in my mind I knew He was showing signs of the calling. However, after I began helping Fr. Noel Davis, an 86 year old priest from…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Dallas Hometown: Coppell, TX Home Parish: St. Ann, Coppell Samuel James Cavanna Praised be Jesus Christ for His providence! Although He allows suffering, He does it for our good. Around junior year of high school I began to struggle with scrupulosity, a religious form of obsessive compulsive disorder. Though a heavy cross, OCD motivated me to…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Tyler Hometown: Whitehouse, TX Home Parish: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Tyler Isaac Joseph Carney Ever since I can remember I have seen myself as a priest. As a child I was attracted to the idea of being a priest, but later, the idea of becoming a priest was less well received. In high school, I…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Hewitt, TX Home Parish: St. Peter Catholic Student Center, Waco Patrick Gabriel Boyle A couple of years ago, as I was experiencing a reawakening of faith, I began to feel a desire to be a vessel of God’s grace sacramentally. When I witness people going through conversion or reconversion, I feel compelled to help…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Hewitt, TX Home Parish: St. Peter Catholic Student Center, Waco Francis Michael Boyle My discernment of the priesthood began to take shape during my senior year of college when I joined the discernment group at St. Peter Catholic Student Center at Baylor University. Through prayer, spiritual direction, the support of friends, and witnessing an…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Austin, TX Home Parish: St. William, Round Rock Juan Pablo Basualdo I have felt a tug toward the priesthood since I was young. As I grew in my relationship with Christ and with Our Lady, I had a growing desire to radically give him my life. During high school, I realized that I felt…

Formation Stage: Propaedeutic Diocese: Austin Hometown: Belton, TX Home Parish: Christ the King, Belton DOYE REASONER BAKER From the time I was little, I remember having the desire to be Christ’s priest. However, it was not until I was at Texas A&M for my undergraduate studies that I started to seriously consider this vocation. Through learning to love the Triune…

Formation Stage: Discipleship Class: Discipleship I Diocese: Lafayette Hometown: Lafayette, LA Home Parish: St. Pius X, Lafayette ELI CHARLES WEIL My vocation story started in my first year of high school at a retreat. I felt the call but was fearful of accepting it because I did not believe I could be happy outside of marriage. I felt this way…