You're listening to the SSPX podcast, and thanks for joining us for this bonus episode,

which is one that was originally published in July 2020. We sat down last summer to speak with

Father John McFarland, who's the vocations director for the U.S. District of the Society of St. Pius

the 10th. We're re-airing this episode to draw some attention

to the vocations retreats, which will be taking place again this summer, a men's retreat

in Winona, Minnesota from July 5th through the 10th, and a women's vocations retreat in Phoenix

from July 19th through the 24th. In this interview, Father McFarland talks about vocations in general.

Who should consider attending a vocations retreat and what kind of people make the best

candidates for the religious life or the priesthood?

If you'd like to learn more about these vocations retreats this summer or to register,

please visit SSPX.org, where they are currently featured on the

homepage. And if you'd prefer to see a video of this interview, just go to YouTube and search

SSPX Vocations Priesthood, and it should pop up for you. With that said, let's turn to our

conversation with Father McFarland.

Father, thanks for joining us for this video and podcast.

You're the vocations director for the Society of St. Piscident in the U.S. District.

Is that correct?

That's right.

So I guess before we get into that and before we start talking about the vocation retreats

themselves, the relationship between the society of St. Tom's-Kondon Seminary and the U.S. district,

they're kind of separate, but they work hand in hand.

Can you explain a little bit how that works?

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