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2025 Workshop Information

2025 Workshop Information

Registration is open for all workshops

This year the NRVC is offering three workshops on-site at the Summer Institute in Leavenworth, KS, and five workshops virtually at the Fall Institute. Read more...

2025 Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors

2025 Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors

July 9-13, 2025 on-site

This foundational workshop is essential for all newly appointed vocation directors and teams. Its goal is to provide participants with the foundational skills, context, theory, challenges, and practicalities of contemporary vocation ministry. Read more...

2025 Behavioral Assessment 1 Workshop

2025 Behavioral Assessment 1 Workshop

July 15-17, 2025 on-site

This foundational workshop teaches practical interviewing techniques in a theoretical framework of behavioral assessment Read more...

2025 Vocation Promotion for Today’s Discerners

2025 Vocation Promotion for Today’s Discerners

July 19-20, 2025 on-site

This hands-on workshop will explore strategic communication planning, social media content development and analysis of its effectiveness, and how to set up and post your original podcasts. Read more...

Synod on Synodality

Synod on Synodality

Links to Reports

The theme of the Synod is Communion, participation, and mission. Pope Francis is inviting all the baptized to participate in this Synodal Process because all the baptized are the subject of the sensus fidelium, the living voice of the People of God. Read more...

Catholic Sisters Week

Catholic Sisters Week

March 8-14

By National Office

Catholic Sisters Week is a chance to recognize this valuable vocation with the hope that more people will learn about women religious, and invite others to follow their example. Read more...

Religious Brothers Day

Religious Brothers Day

May 1

This international celebration of brothers honors this valuable vocation. Promote the vocation of Brothers, thank the Brothers, and invite men to consider becoming Brothers. Read more...

2025 Talk it up Tuesdays

2025 Talk it up Tuesdays

NRVC Member meet-up

Tuesday, January 28 through April 8, 2025 Read more...

World Day of Prayer for Vocations

World Day of Prayer for Vocations

April 26, 2026

World Day of Prayer for Vocations is celebrated annually on Good Shepherd Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Easter. Read more...

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Entrance Class Report ...

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Profession Class Report ...

This annual CARA report showed 91 women and 103 men professed ... More

Bold and Faithful Storymap ...

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Ordination Class Report ...

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NRVC Member Areas

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Delaware Member Area Gathering

August 27, 2025,

via Zoom

Candidate Assessment through the Lens of Interculturality

September 6, 2025,

San Antonio, TX

National Board Meeting

Sept. 8-12, 2025,

Chicago, IL

Member Area Coordinators Gathering

Sept. 16-18, 2025,

Chicago, IL

Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors

October 6-10, 2025,

Register today....

Understanding the Lasting Impact of Trauma workshop

October 13, 2025,

Cultural Matters virtual workshop

Oct. 14, 21, & 28, 2025,

Behavorial Assessment 1 Workshop

October 15-17, 2025,

Register today...

Candidate Assessment through the Lens of Interculturality Workshop

October 18, 2025,

Virtual Ethical Issues in Candidate Assessment

October 29-30, 2025 via Zoom ,

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VISION Discerner Guide

HORIZON Journal

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Sister Carolyn Martin, L.S.P.

Sister Carolyn Martin, L.S.P.

Sister Carolyn Martin, L.S.P. was a carefree teenager when she first met her community, the Little Sisters of the Poor by happenstance. "They were happy, genuinely happy," she recounts. Read more...

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