child at that age. >> that seed can be planted. what abopriest. i had no interest in it. if i had a list of ten things, fo it would be at the bottom and it changed when i went on this good morning. religious pill graham mag to on be half of the archdiocese france in my freshman year of college and in a moment of of san francisco welcome to prayer there i thought i never asked god what he wanted me to mosaic. there is a weekly newsletter do with my life and i asked hat and we recently posed this question and i felt this deep question to the readers. if you have the opportunity to inspiration and joy to be a sit down one and one with a priest. definitely a lot of fear but priest, what question might you joy that this is how the lord is asking plea to give my life have for him? what would you want to know to him and i followed that path about their vocation, their way until the priesthood. >> you're how old? of life? >> i'm 31 now. do you have questions about fai >> so a good decade or more. >> about a decade ago. vocation, about your own >> that wonderful. that is ryintereg. spiritual condition? you may wonder how do i so meisquestion. overcome my fear of going to this program that we're doing confession or how can i learn now i think will be broadcast to pray? how can i understand the real on

erything else. >> correct. >> let's talk about are we presence of jesus in the uke finding vocations through the young man or where are they wrist or why do we see so many coming from or how does a young young people leaving? we have two priests to sit with man think about such a vocation? >> it is a great struggle. us and share some answers. promises to be a very everyone knows the numbers are interesting discussion. not great. we don't have many inquiries art this brief break, place and other places in the country join mow and our guests for ask are doing a little better than i would say we are on the west a priest. coast but i would say the fundamental crisis is a basic vocation crisis. there is a lack of people getting married anymore in the church. our life is a gift that god gave us our life as ntthe us mat and fundamental of life is how am i being taking this life and offering it back? that is what a vocation is. how does god call me and the more we can help young people realize the meaning of life, the more they will be open to a

vocation of marriage, to the priesthood, reling jus life, some other special vocation but we have to ask that question first before we can get them on the past of potential priesthood vocation. >> it is interesting you mentioned the marriage right down too. that is certainly a vocation. i am married and there are times when if it weren't my vocation and my calling it would be difficult to fulfill it, but it continues bauers it is a sacred obligation and a gift, a regifting of myself to someone else. >> yes. >> i think the key element is prayer. we pray for vocations because the lord himself asked us to do that. the harvest is a bun dance but the laborers are few so pray to the lord of the harvest. this is going to be aired later but ware taping today which happens to be october 15th, the feast of saint ter resa of jesus. not

si ert rt cosati with gowh loves us. a heart to heart conversation to pray for your priests, for their sang fif fication, to hello. welcome to mosaic. pray for future priests, to my guests are two priests and pray for those who are we're talking about questions searching for meaning, for submitted to the priests. truth, for value, for love on my left is father kevin kennedy. thank you for being here. within their lives that through on his left is father cameron that prayer, the grace of god fall her. might be communicated to them now you can see that way have a in a way that really touches them and changes them so that young priest and a slightly they can become a priest like even though he is a fictional older priest. let's find out about their careers. >> i have been a priest for character that wonderful priest portrayed in the keys of the four years and currently assigned astrocation director kingdom, patterning his life of san francisco as well as the after the heart of the lord, gentle and humble and of priest secretary of archbishop. service to others, lovit a on >> four years. you went to saint patrick's are moor seminary. >> yes. >> are you a local product? mentor priests that you can recall in your life? >> one of the priests recently >> yes. i grew up in marin county and, that has been a great model for

yes. >> wonderful. me is, he is a saint. >> father kevin, you i know and i think you're from -- i was saint isaac jog. he grew up in france and came born in san mateo. to the new world to bring the i'm in belmont. faith to the people in this i'm a local product. land and the amount that he >> and been a priest for over sacrificed out of lover for the two decades. >> yes. gospel, the a point he loved >> your job? his people that he was trying to communicate the faith to is deeply inspiring. i'm the pastor of my lady of i hope one day to visit his fatima and i helped at other gravesite there in i believe parishes as well. 20 years, four years. northern new york but he is an now we have a set of questions coming in from people. inspiration for me as a priest i want to mix and match them, and a saint. but one of the major ones was >> we only have 20, 30 seconds left so we're going to wrap it up. thank you for coming and about the recent study. discussing with us. thank you. the real presence of christ in the uke wrist which is a >> i learned a lot about the vocation of the priest. central teaching of the it is not the most difficult life of all orway don't want to catholic faith and the cen of what the priests life and job scare people off? it is difficult but doable. is, 70% of catholics say they >> it is joyful. don't believe in the real it should be joyful. presence or not sure about >> yes. you bring joy it to. thank you for being here and that. that is something i would like you to respond to. thank you for watching mosaic.

is this something that you experience as the priest who is preceding at the uke wrist? >> father fall ler, what do you say? >> i would say those studies don't surprise me. i would say whenway look out that the masses we celebrate it is something we can see in people's faces in terms of their belief or lack of belief but as a priest the question becomes what do we need to do to address this? obviously catta key sis is one thing but i always felt action speaks louder than words and when you act like you belief, slowly you begin to act to believe more. i think if we do a better job acting from the way we talk about it and the way we act in front of it, the way priests celebrate mass, i think that would generate a deeper faith in our people. when i deal with the second

graders, they have a deep belief but they don't see that lived out in their masses that they go to or in the parishes so i believe that begins to diminish as they get older so acting we believe could be a start to this. >> the priests form of lit ra gy? >> he is not an actor in that sense of performing something he doesn't believe because you can't fool people. i have to be a priest who believes that he is acting in the person of christ. and that christ is central to the priesthood. his mission is not to draw people so much to himself but through himself to christ. that encounter with the lord. and if he believes what the church believes and teaches and the celebration, the offering of the uke rest, he believes this is the mystery of christ present renewed offered to the father, then he will naturally

express that through reverence, through love. you can't fake that. unfortunately when a priest doesn't celebrate with reverence, people pick up on live from the cbs studios, that. they think if he doesn't this is kpix5 news. a live look in san francisco where residents are believe why should i? so priests are crucial on their dealing with an expensive mass focus of the dedication and the caused by flood waters. ware on the storm watch with what you need to know before celebrate of the mass. and i guess the priest is, heading out the dar. >> plus, we're following the we think of priests doing investigation into an officer various tasks and jobs and they involved shooting it mission can be educators and teachers that ended with a suspect and police officer in the hospital. or they can be -- but is your witnesses described the moments central task the saying of the shots rang out. lit ra gy, the saying of the the search for answers after a man is killed near a mass? a a priest, the very nature of hayward elementary school. what the investigation has priesthood is offering revealed so far. it is 6 a. m. on this sunday sacrifice in all world religions, a priest offers sacrifice. that is his crucial defining december 8th, 2019. i'm devin fehely. role. others can do academic work and >> i'm emily turner. taking a look at our high def doppler, social work, community organizing, administration, all of those things can be a part

of and are to some degree a part of priesthood but in addition to preaching the gospel, his central role is to offer the sacrifice of the cross, the love of the lord, offered, actuallized, renewed in the community and done with great reverence and care and love so the community sees christ renewing his offering of himself on be half of the father. >> i understand that. i can't imagine what the rale presence is, but i understand the teaching at that you're putting me in a special relationship with god himself in that moment. now, now, there is the slightly smaller sack raiments of confession which seems absolutely important in which e touch with god and we had a question bearing on that. about a fare of going to confession. how do i overcome my fear of going to confession?

>> one of the fears? what is that the priest will judge me especially if they know me and they will judge me differently. one thing that helps limit that, as priests we know we're sinners and we know the sins of our past. we know the things we struggle within our own life and that gives us a level of compassion and empathy for the person coming to the confessionnal. we're not there to judge. we're there to stand in the place of christ's position to come to healing in life and that is who they are speaking to encounter is christ. our job is to get out of the way scho christ can speak through us in a sense. so i would say that is a helpful piece of advice, to just know we're not there to judge. we know the state of our own souls and we know the sins of many people that come to us and so we're not there to judge. >> on a practical level i say sometimes it is easier if they

plan to go to confession to find maybe a priest they don't know and go the screen so they don't feel on a human level that sense of trip pid days but in whatever circumstances the goal is that they leave with joy, that's what the lord forgives, he forgets and takes away as if it never happened and he brings us back to the moment of our baptism which should be a great, great joy. >> amen to that. we'll take another break and join us with the questions for the priest.

well cack back. we're talking with father kevin kennedy here and father kevin faller about the life of a priest. we had a question come in and a good one i think.

what is success for a priest? i think we know what success for a baseball player is. what is success for a priest? and by the same token, what is failure? how would a priest fail? we know how a plumber might fail. it is obvious. >> we were talking this morning about one of my favorite films, it was one of my mother's, the keys of the kingdom. and gregory peck plays a priest who is pray simply a failure in his two assignments and he is sent to be a missionary in china but he touches the hearts of many people. the lives of many people through his gentleness, his humility, authenticity and he embodies the best of the

prhood. learn from me for i am gentle and humble of heart. if a person with that kind of a heart touches the soul of another human being, he is a success as a priest. he is a success in what matters to god. >> yes. >> recently i have been thinking about what success means in my priesthood. i would say every single day is successful because the job of a priest is to offer the sacrifice of the mass and i do everyday for the glor fickcation of god. on another level, a way from that reality? it is bringing people closer to christ, to having people come to realize christ is the way the truth and the live and willing to surrender themselves to that life for a priest is to

bringing people close tore christ. >> and it does seem the case that jesus founded this priesthood. he named his apostles to be his followers and preachers, to bring people to him. i am the way of the truth and the life. so it is an ancient tradition you're carrying out, but ever new. and speaking of success and failure, the person to whom you're bringing people, jesus christ, looks a lot like a massive failure when he is up on the crucifix but we have it in the church to remind us of -- what? >> remind us that failure and success is not exactly what we think it might be. that from a christian perspective, failure in a sense leads to success, that god will allow us to fail. that through our sufferings is actually where our successes or triumphs come so it is a reverse on the way we normally

think of things in society i would say. >> yes. also about your life as a priest, there must be joys and there must be sorrows or difficult tition. if i have to hear sins day after day, year after year, i would get depressed. >> that is what many people think. i was saying when a person has alum bulge and con treat heart which is what god wants from us, there is nothing more beautiful than that confession. it doesn't matter the sins in that moment, but when they come with a humble and con treat heart that one of the greatest joys of a priest. >> and joys, difficulties, what stands out for you? >> the greatest joy for me to be the young people who are coming to the churches where

father cameron celebrates, where i celebrate, erth havead veryhad to sometimes evangelize, read the fathers of the church and participate in the litter gis, their courage is finding and persevering in their faith, their hope against , you know, difficult odds, and that belief and that trust that make love, real love possible in their hearts, love for god and love for one another, they are my greatest joy because they are the fair of the church and they are a real future. >> that is good to know. you mentioned young people converting or coming to the church. one of the questions was a concern many people have. so many young people seem to believing the catholic church. can you address that?

is this a problem? >> yes, i think we see it when we look out and don't see many young people college age or high school age and many people asking, what areway supposed to do? how do we handle this? a lot of times we think if we make things more entertaining and engaging, the young people will come back but i deeply believe the young people are searching for god and the more where we can be a place where they found the trans sentence of god and they can be touched by the love of god, the more young people will come back because they are seeking for it and i believe we can offer it, but it may not bow in the way we think witten ter take or things that try to captivate their interest right away. >> the archbishop is trying to have this truth, bra ty and goodness right now. when we begin with the lit ra sure itself that the truth is being proclaimed the community formed boy faith,

hope, love, but through the beauty of sacred worship, the beauty of images of music, the reverence of the reterje cal celebration itself especially on the part of the priest, engaging homilies that this is centrally most important in the future of our christian and catholic communities. >> so you find joy in the young people that you see something in. >> yes, because they are being drawn to all of this. they are not finding this anywhere else in their lives. their lives are empty despite technology that is meant to facilitate communication often it leads to a sense of self estrange the and isolation so they are only going to find the healing of their loneliness and interemptiness in a worshipping community. >> i think that is a given. we'll take a brief break and be back for one more segment with

our priests today.

c1 hello and welcome back for our final segment of the discussion with the priests. you're both local fellows. i didn't ask how you dis cen your vocation as a priest. can i get that from you? >> i was in second grade the year i made my holy communion.

my uncle was ordained a priest for another die oh sis. he lived else where but i was 1 his ordination so this was a magnificent event and his first solemn high mass was at our lady of angels church in burling game. i remember being present and ball choir, the family was all present. i thought i think i want to do that when i grow up. i had thought of a lot of other things but when i saw him there at the alter, i thought this is a beautiful event and it was so not centered on the priest but on christ, bringing people to christ. truth, beauty and goodness. that is obviously