Jeanie Hannaman

By Bishop James Conley, Southern Nebraska Register - A vocation to the priesthood is both a gift and a mystery. It is a gift in the sense that no one deserves or earns the call to the priesthood; it is freely given by God... “You did not choose me,” the Lord says to his apostles in the Gospel of John, “but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide.”... Jesus Christ calls a man to freely offer himself as a gift when he is called to the priesthood. St. Paul, in his letter to Romans, calls a priest to offer his very body as a living sacrifice, giving himself over and over again, for the sake of others.