Recently one of my students showed me a book that he had been reading to discern his vocation. When he pulled it out of his backpack I was amazed that I was reading the exact same book. If you have not read Fr. Brett Brannen's book entitled To Save a Thousand Souls it is a good read. Our discussion that followed reviewed the fundamentals of the book. The concrete and personal experiences were certainly valuable throughout the text. Fr. Brannen makes one of the clearest explanations of religious life that I have heard from a diocesan priest. He writes the religious life:
