CONSECRATED VIRGINITY Spouse of Christ Living in the World: Consecrated Virgins embody the image of the heavenly Bride and the life that is to come. Consecrated to God by her diocesan bishop, a consecrated virgin is mystically betrothed to Christ and dedicated to the...
ABOUT APOSTOLIC RELIGIOUS LIFE Apostolic religious life is a form of consecrated life within the Church wherein the members profess vows of chastity, poverty and obedience within a Congregation or Community approved by the Church. Shared community life is an integral...
Vocation Ministry in Your Parish How are you at your own parish using what we learned from Rhonda Gruenwald's Hundredfold Workshop? If you have any working ideas please feel free to let us know so that we can regularly post updates to this page.St. Elizabeth Seton,...
Come and See Opportunities for Women Benedictines of Mary Queen of the Apostles Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ Dominican Nuns in Marbury, AL Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R. Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia In Nashville Passionist Nuns...
One of the most beautiful liturgies in the Catholic Church is when a man becomes a priest of Jesus Christ. At the Mass of ordination, he men to be ordained kneel in front of the bishop one by one, and they place their folded hands between the hands of the bishop....
Holy priests don’t always start out holy. Take the case of St. Vincent de Paul. His beginning was rough, but in time, Vincent became an exemplar of priestly virtue and holiness. Being from a poor family, his father had to sell the family’s oxen to send him to college...
“We're accidents floating on a rock in the emptiness of space. Billions of years preceded humanity, and after our inevitable extinction, there will be billions more years of silent emptiness. Human existence is a blip that means nothing in the vast history of the...
Our Lord said that His sheep would know His voice; but when it comes to discerning your vocation, you’ve probably found that it’s not as simple as it sounds. How can you tell if what you're hearing is God's voice? If you keep in mind a few characteristics of God’s...
It’s easy to forget the awesome office of the priest. We see him daily offering the Mass, hearing confessions, anointing, counseling, helping his people to overcome their difficulties and sins. How often do we stop to think about what the priest really is? One way to...
Did you realize that you do not get to choose your vocation? That does not mean you have no free will regarding your vocation. On the contrary, a vocation cannot be lived without free will. Think about what a vocation is: it is a call from God to live your life in the...