Vocation Awareness Week Begins Today

Did you know there are 20,000 less priests and 129,000 less religious sisters in the US compared to 60 years ago? At the same time, the Catholic population has grown steadily. During Vocation Awareness Week, please pray that young people in today's society will hear and respond to God's call. Please encourage the young people in your life-children, grandchildren, friends, students- to be open if God calls them to the priesthood and consecrated life.

One Vocation Leads to Another

"Let us not forget that Christian marriage is a vocation to holiness in the full sense of the word and that the example of holy parents is the first condition favorable for planting seeds of priestly and religious vocations." - Pope Benedict XV

Everyone Has a Divine Vocation

“Jesus has a specific task in life for each and every one of us. Each one of us is hand-picked, called by name by Jesus! There is no one among us who does not have a divine vocation! Some are called audibly by God, but the usual kind of call is internal, through the inner working of the Spirit.” ~Homily by Pope Saint John Paul II

         As Catholics, we firmly believe that God has a plan for our lives! He calls some to marriage, some to the priesthood, and others to religious life or to live as generous single people. Fully living our own vocations—and teaching young people how to discern God’s call—is a serious duty, but also a joyful one.

Your Unique Mission 

Why does it matter that people discover their God-given vocations? Because the Church relies on the unique contribution of every soul. As St. John Henry Newman famously reflected: "God has created me to do some special service; God has committed some work to me that he has not committed to another.  I HAVE A MISSION!