Introducing Portraits of the Call, a beautiful award-winning film created by the Diocese of Lansing profiling a range of divinely ordained vocations: priestly life, consecrated life and married life. Upon Vocations Awareness Week 2024, do take time to watch it. You won't regret doing so.
What is the film about? Well, the Church proposes that each of us has a God-given mission in life. That is our vocation. Fulfilling what God has in store for us will bring the greatest joy to our hearts but discerning what that particular vocation might be is not always an easy task.
Portraits of the Call features personal testimony from faithful Catholics in the Diocese of Lansing living out the different Catholic vocations of married life, religious life, consecrated virginity, and priesthood.
Principal interviews in the video are with Father Dan Westermann of Saint John the Baptist in Ypsilanti, Sister Maria Regina Immaculata, SV, of the Sisters of Life in New York City, Abby and Mitchell Feldpausch of Westphalia, and Dr. Theresa Marshall, principal of Saint John Vianney Catholic School in Flint.
Portraits of the Call is the creation of the Diocese of Lansing’s multi-media journalist, Matt Riedl, who won a regional Emmy Award for his labors. Since its release in 2023, the film has garnered nearly 10,000 views on YouTube alone, while short Instagram Reels of various sections of the film have been viewed over 250,000 times on that platform. In early June a portion of the film was broadcast on EWTN’s Living Divine Mercy show.
The film also received Silver recognition in late May from the Telly Awards, a global media competition which attracts over 12,000 entries from 6 continents and all 50 states. We hope you find the film useful. Our Lady, Mother of the Church, pray for us.