Resources
Resources
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All NRVC videos are publicly available on its YouTube Channel. The playlist includes the following topics:
Abundant Hope Series
2024 Convocation
2022 Convocation
2020 Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life
2020 Convocation
2020 NRVC/CARA Study of Recent Vocations to Religious Life
2018 Convocation
2016 Convocation
2014 Convocation
2004-2012 Convocation Series
Gratitude Series
Moving Forward in Hope: Absolutely Millennial series
Moving Forward in Hope series
National Fund for Catholic Religious Vocations
National Vocation Awareness Week
Religious Life Today Series
Speaker series
VISION Vocation Guide videos
Vocation Promotion Series
Walking Humbly Together
World Youth Day
Giving hope in a time of uncertainty (2020)
Vocation Conference in Rome (2017)
NRVC Members at the Vocation Conference in Rome (2017)
English Speaking Recommendations from the International Conference in Rome (2017)
Interview with Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, from the International Conference in Rome (2017)
Lesson plans grades 1-6: view, download
Lesson plans high school girls: view, download
Lesson plans high school boys: view, download
Education resources high school and college, view, download
Education resources, school activities: view, download
Education resources, parish projects: view, download
Education resources, growing a culture of vocation: view, download
Additional resources for teachers (tips/lesson plans/activities) found on the VISION Vocation Network: view
Sister to sister: Religious reflect on who inspired them to follow God's call
by Elizabeth Evans
Global Sisters Report, January 10, 2019
Q & A with Sr. Sharon Dillon, executive director of the National Religious Vocation Conference
by Dawn Arauho-Hawkins
Global Sisters Report, September 19, 2017
Vocation Ambassadors program trains young adult Catholics to spread religious life
by Elizabeth A. Elliott
Global Sisters Report, August 16, 2016
Q & A with Sister Deborah Borneman, SS.C.M.
by Dan Stockman
Global Sisters Report, March 5, 2015
Religious Vocations in the West: What can be done to increase vocations among the youth?
by Rome Reports, February 25, 2015
“Christ expects great things from young people….Young people in every situation. In every place and region of the world, do not cease to put questions to Christ... they meet Him and they keep searching for him in order to question him further. If they succeed in following the road which He points out to them they will have the joy of making their own contribution to His presence in the next century and in the centuries to come until the end of time—JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER!”
—Pope John Paul II
National Catholic Student Coalition
Usually in December—location is in major cities
FOCUS Conference
18 college campuses in 10 states
National Conference
New York’s Love and Responsibility
Manhattan Group of Young Adults
Kansas City Young Adults
Program sponsored by the Diocese of Kansas City
Minneapolis St. Olaf’s Young Adult Group
Offers a variety of social, service, spiritual, and recreational activities for young adults. In October, five members of SOYA will travel to Kenya for a month of service work. Unusual number of young adults attend.
Eucharistic Adoration Campaign
In concert with the Manassas, Virginia based Cardinal Newman Society.
Here I am Lord Conference
Denver/Chicago
Young women who attend as youth ministers are discerning
Mike Zak, co-coordinator 630-215-5577
Encuentro @ ND
Inviting interested y/a as a national gathering that has built up from the ground level.
Meeting takes place entirely in Spanish.
Manhattan Contemporary Roman Catholics
Catholic Leadership Conference
Catherine of Siena Institute-Colorado Springs
Association of Students at Catholic Colleges-ASCC
Youth for the Third Millennium
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