Father Adam Marchese, a priest for St. Margaret Mary in Winter Park Florida, shares some funny anecdotes of when he told his loved ones that God wanted him to be a priest.

I felt the Holy Spirit saying, “If you’re going to discern celibacy, the only way you can do that is as a single person.” It was a very difficult thing to break up with my girlfriend at the time. My aunt Mary just couldn’t get her words out, she was overcome with emotion.