Summary: {jwplayer}http://drwill.com/images/podcast/FrPatrick.mp3{/jwplayer} Father Patrick I am always curious about what motivates an individual to pursue a particular career. Beyond the platitudes of wanting a good quality of life, career choices are consequential to be sure. Choosing a life as a teacher, nurse, police officer or firefighter is a passion for many, often made early in life. This is true of opting for business, law or medicine as well. But this latter cluster also has significant economic variables as well, not lost on anyone. A fire fighter has no illusions of great accumulation of wealth or influence. Clearly a business professional can aspire to both. And so it goes. But then there are those who make an even more stark choice, to eschew the ambitions of accumulation and enter a life devoted to service without economic reward. I think of the women I have known who enter a convent, the men who enter monastic life. What is this call to become a priest? We sometimes take for granted that there are individuals among us who make this unique life choice. Today we speak with a remarkable individual serving our community. Father Patrick Baikauskas, a Dominican priest who is Pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish on the Purdue Campus who talks about his life and career today and tomorrow.
