TYVM for the kind fix on spelling.  It looked odd, but my little web spell checker didn't flag.  I'm getting lazy!

The Church teaches that the call must come from both sides; personal interest is not itself a call.

There is a danger of becoming - as we have become - too focused on the "clerical life" as if being a priest is the only way to serve God, become a saint, seek holiness.

NCR is famously clerical in its focus, even as it adores its revolutionary status.   The more it focuses on clerical ideas, the more it distorts the Church in the wrong direction.

We need some priests to bring us the Sacraments. The rest of the life of our Faith is the rest of the entire world: the lay's work. 

I can serve God every much as crucially today around my home as the priest who will hear my Confession this afternoon.   And I should spend myself totally in my life as a lay man, crawling back to the Sacraments for more grace

It's not about "personal choices"; it's about obeying God.  His will.