Bishop Bryan: Like most clergy in the Independent Sacramental Movement (ISM), I have a rather complicated educational history. After graduating high school in Orlando, Florida, I took a few years off to travel and find myself spiritually. I guess you could say that I was going through a spiritual identity crisis, gravitating somewhere between that of being an atheist and an agnostic. It was during this time, however, that I had a profound spiritual experience that led me to discover my vocation to the Catholic priesthood. I was baptized Roman Catholic as an infant, but my family was not very religious, so we almost never attended Mass. I did attend a Catholic middle school, but religious observance was not really encouraged or required there. As you can probably imagine, a call from God like this, to a person like me, was rather surprising and a bit terrifying. This means that I worked very hard to run from it, as much as I could, until I couldn’t ignore it any further.