In this culminating episode of Called to the Second Half of Life, Father John Gribowich is joined by theologian and educator Kathy Lorenz and renowned liturgical musician and storyteller Jesse Manibusan for an intimate, unscripted conversation on vocation, community, and the freedom of living one’s true call. Rather than offering abstract theory, this session invites you into lived experience—where calling is discerned not in isolation, but through relationship, resonance, and shared story.

Through personal narratives shaped by family, faith, displacement, suffering, creativity, and service, the panel explores how vocation is first planted within us and then revealed through the communities that surround us. You will hear how moments of affirmation, vulnerability, loss, and even doubt become sacred signals—helping us distinguish between voices that merely keep us safe and the deeper voice that calls us forward.

This roundtable wrestles honestly with the tension between first-half-of-life expectations and second-half-of-life freedom, especially within the Catholic tradition. The conversation reframes faith not as a rigid system to manage sin or conform identity, but as a living portal into compassion, accompaniment, and incarnation. Here, vocation is revealed as something we grow into by showing up, paying attention, and allowing others to name what they see emerging within us.

If you are seeking a faith that feels more human, more spacious, and more alive—one that honors both tradition and uniqueness—this final conversation offers a hopeful vision of second-half-of-life living as communion: a shared journey where your story helps awaken the stories of others.