{"id":10210,"date":"2012-01-17T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:34:47","slug":"from-tv-producer-to-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2012\/01\/from-tv-producer-to-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"From TV producer to priest?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

That\u2019s even more improbable than making the leap from TV producer to deacon.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Catholic Herald<\/a><\/strong> has the scoop:<\/p>\n

A producer, one might say, is not unlike a parish priest organizing a liturgy for a special occasion.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Before enrolling at Sacred Heart School of Theology, Hales Corners, Tony Budnick spent more than a decade as a television producer \u2013 which he recently defined as \u201csomeone responsible for coordination and execution\u201d and ever attentive to detail, someone who must \u201chave a vision of what the product\u2019s going to look like \u2018on the air.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While quick to emphasize the liturgy\u2019s sacred nature \u2013 something absent from the typical TV production \u2013 Budnick noted that Mass celebrated in a parish church, like a production based in a studio, includes a number of \u201celements.\u201d As does a producer, a presider works with many others: lectors, musicians, ushers, acolytes. On occasions like the Easter Vigil, the presider, again in common with the producer, will be particularly concerned with such features as lighting.<\/p>\n

Budnick, 40, talked to your Catholic Herald by telephone during Christmas week from his home in Knoxville, Tenn. The third-year seminarian, studying to be a priest for the Diocese of Knoxville \u2013 where Catholics represent only about 3 percent of the population \u2013 spoke of his youth, his broadcasting background and his transition from practicing producer to aspiring clergyman. If all goes according to plan, Budnick will complete his studies at the Hales Corners seminary and be ordained to the priesthood in 2014\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026He was a DJ, reporter and anchor prior to becoming a producer, after concluding that his primary \u201cstrength was in budgeting, organization, preplanning.\u201d Budnick worked for NPR and PBS stations, as well as NBC and CBS television affiliates. He moved from Michigan to Knoxville in 1997.<\/p>\n

His friend, Rick Russo, sports director at CBS-TV affiliate WVLT, repeatedly invited Budnick to visit his church, St. Albert the Great. In 2002, Budnick accepted Russo\u2019s invitation \u2013 and was delighted to find \u201can all-are-welcome mentality\u201d in which pastor Fr. Chris Michelson preached about listening to God\u2019s call. Budnick became a lector and joined in peace and justice activities at St. Albert.<\/p>\n

Parish involvement eventually led him \u2013 after he\u2019d read the book \u201cThe Collar,\u201d set at the Hales Corners seminary \u2013 to Sacred Heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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