Vocations initiative topping 100,000 followers launches priestly discernment program

A Catholic vocations initiative that has reached over 100,000 people on social media will expand its efforts to boost priestly vocations with the launch of a discernment program.

Shepherding Future Shepherds, an initiative through the International Institute for Culture, announced Aug. 18 that it will partner with the Avila Institute’s High Calling Program to support men discerning the priesthood. Shepherding Future Shepherds’ social media has generated more than 7.8 million views on its videos highlighting inspirational stories of modern-day priests.

The initiative’s program director, Matthew Haas, told EWTN News that Shepherding Future Shepherds’ partnership with High Calling will center on accompaniment, reaching out to men who feel they might have a call to the priesthood and offering “not only resources but an entire program that will take you through a formal process of discernment to make sure that this is truly your call.”

“We’re encouraging not only that reflection on that discernment but helping to provide them with the tools and resources to work through that to help uncover where it is that Godʼs calling them,” he said.

Haas said that since 2025, the initiative…