Michael Boccaccio's guest appearances

Michael Boccaccio

It's All About the Questions

Diane Gardner

Christine Kane

Will Reynolds

James Rollins

Fiona Fine

John Livesay

Kathy Fettke

Alan Shapiro

Sean Murphy

Mike Michalowicz

John Warrillow

Wayne Pernell

Karen Noe

Steve Olsher

John David Mann

OwlTail

The response to Father Mike's first appearance on my show last week was so huge, with so many questions people wanted to ask him, that when a guest had to reschedule I invited him back on. On Part 2, we delve further into the types of callings, whether a calling is for life and what he meant by his pet peeve of people saying, "I am spiritual, not religious." I loved his question he posed, "How will I function as a person?" He also posed, "Are you avoiding who you are? He also shared some other questions to help us connect to our calling and to connect with our spiritual and religious sides. Our discussion on renewing callings was a huge perspective shift for me. I had always thought callings were for life and did not require recommitment. In hindsight, well, just listen to the interview!

The response to Father Mike's first appearance on my show last week was so huge, with so many questions people wanted to ask him, that when a guest had to reschedule I invited him back on. On Part 2, we delve further into the types of callings, whether a calling is for life and what he meant by his pet peeve of people saying, "I am spiritual, not religious." I loved his question he posed, "How will I function as a person?" He also posed, "Are you avoiding who you are? He also shared some other questions to help us connect to our calling and to connect with our spiritual and religious sides. Our discussion on renewing callings was a huge perspective shift for me. I had always thought callings were for life and did not require recommitment. In hindsight, well, just listen to the interview!

140: Fr. Michael Boccaccio - Part 2 - Your Calling is Calling

Callings are not just to the religious life. Callings are something we all have. They call us to be something bigger than ourselves, to make a difference in the world through gifts we each uniquely have. In the case of my guest on this episode, his calling was to be a Roman Catholic priest. The route he took to get there could have ended with him living a secular life and still being of service yet his calling to the priesthood was too strong to resist for long. His journey to accepting his calling is one for the ages and one we discuss today. Father Michael Boccaccio shares how to discover your calling, why we each have a calling and how it manifests itself even when we do not see it for ourselves until much later than others see it in us. We discuss faith, religion, spirituality, how to be filled up even while giving all of yourself and how callings live on even when you think they might be coming to a close. The Rev.Michael Boccaccio has been a Catholic Priest since 1971 when he could no longer ignore his calling to be a part of the Roman Catholic Church.   In a recent interview in The Hour Newspapers in Norwalk, CT, Father Michael says he does not believe in reincarnation. He is Catholic after all. But if, by some chance, he does come back in another life, he wants to be a seagull. “I love flying, I love the sea, and I’d love to leave my signature on a few heads,”  This sentiment is, of course, a Boccaccio signature in itself. You will get a small slice of that irrepressible humor and "subtleness" on this interview with a man who has shaped my life for many years. Now that he is almost retired, Rev. Boccaccio is traveling around the world bringing people closer to their faith through speaking at church missions and making people smile just by being himself.

Callings are not just to the religious life. Callings are something we all have. They call us to be something bigger than ourselves, to make a difference in the world through gifts we each uniquely have. In the case of my guest on this episode, his calling was to be a Roman Catholic priest. The route he took to get there could have ended with him living a secular life and still being of service yet his calling to the priesthood was too strong to resist for long. His journey to accepting his calling is one for the ages and one we discuss today. Father Michael Boccaccio shares how to discover your calling, why we each have a calling and how it manifests itself even when we do not see it for ourselves until much later than others see it in us. We discuss faith, religion, spirituality, how to be filled up even while giving all of yourself and how callings live on even when you think they might be coming to a close. The Rev.Michael Boccaccio has been a Catholic Priest since 1971 when he could no longer ignore his calling to be a part of the Roman Catholic Church.   In a recent interview in The Hour Newspapers in Norwalk, CT, Father Michael says he does not believe in reincarnation. He is Catholic after all. But if, by some chance, he does come back in another life, he wants to be a seagull. “I love flying, I love the sea, and I’d love to leave my signature on a few heads,”  This sentiment is, of course, a Boccaccio signature in itself. You will get a small slice of that irrepressible humor and "subtleness" on this interview with a man who has shaped my life for many years. Now that he is almost retired, Rev. Boccaccio is traveling around the world bringing people closer to their faith through speaking at church missions and making people smile just by being himself.

139: Father Michael Boccaccio - Your Calling is Calling