{"id":3391,"date":"2007-10-26T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/vocations-video-fishers-of-men-honored-for-excellence.html"},"modified":"2007-10-26T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T08:51:00","slug":"vocations-video-fishers-of-men-honored-for-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/vocations-video-fishers-of-men-honored-for-excellence.html","title":{"rendered":"Vocations video “Fishers of Men” honored for excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some weeks back, I blogged about the stunning vocations video “Fishers of Men”<\/a>. Now, it’s been honored with a Gabriel Award for communications excellence<\/a>. You can watch the video below. Just click the ‘play’ button. The USCCB press release follows: <\/p>\n

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Fishers of Men, the 18-minute DVD that is a major resource in a vocational recruitment project launched last year by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will be honored with a Gabriel Award, October 26, in Hollywood, California.<\/p>\n

More than 60,000 copies of the DVD have been distributed nationwide and beyond. Fishers of Men has been aired on TV stations, shown in schools, during parish Masses, seminaries and small group settings and played on individual computers.<\/p>\n

Fishers of Men was produced by Grassroots Films of Brooklyn, New York, and is a fast-paced video which shows many of the facets of a priest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily life. Several priests provide testimony to the importance they place on their own vocation. A dramatic re-enactment portrays how a priest can inspire a vocation through his service to someone in need of priestly ministry.<\/p>\n

The Fishers of Men project is intended to renew priests\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sense of fulfillment in their vocation and to encourage them to draw on that satisfaction to invite other men to pursue the priesthood. It is based on Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call to the first Apostles, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will make you fishers of men\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Mk 1:17). The project was developed by the USCCB Committee on Vocations.<\/p>\n

The Gabriel Awards are sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals to honor works of excellence in broadcasting. Other 2007 winners include Picturing Mary, an effort by the USCCB and Thirteen\/WNET, the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flagship PBS station; and Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Little Einsteins: A Tall Totem Tale, from the Disney Channel.<\/p>\n

Joseph Campo, producer of Fishers of Men, said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I speak for everyone on the Grassroots Films staff when I say that we have always had a positive view and appreciation of the Catholic priesthood throughout the world, and we are grateful for the opportunity to portray what it means to be a priest in the film, Fishers of Men.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He finds the DVD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s success heartening.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Serious filmmakers always work to produce something of extraordinary artistic quality,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Campo said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When the work can serve a noble goal such as inviting men to the priesthood, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doubly rewarding for the artists.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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