This week found me severely under the weather instead of enjoying SEEK 2024. Unable to record a new show, I opted to revisit my conversation from this time last year with Fr. Sean Hagerty, SJ.

Fr. Hagerty is the vocation promoter for the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. That means that Fr. Hagerty is responsible for accompanying men who are discerning a life in the Society of Jesus. He joined the Jesuits in 2012, after having served in the U.S. army. He has ministered in prisons, campus ministries, and hospitals, and conducted research into just war, moral injury, and the reintegration of soldiers into the Catholic community. He was just ordained a priest in 2022.

We spoke with him about the process of discernment live from St. Louis at SEEK23 put on by FOCUS.