December 2016 newsletter

NRVC undertook a number of initiatives to honor the Year of Mercy and help its members to more fully embrace this foundational Christian virtue. Read more...

To ensure you don't miss a single benefit—including eligibility for education-debt grant funds—be sure to renew your NRVC membership today. Read more...

Seven people entering religious communities have received 2016 grants from the National Fund for Catholic Religious Vocations to cover their education debt during initial formation. Read more...

Registration is now open for a national Brothers Symposium to take place at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana on March 25. Its focus will be on the 2015 Vatican document about the identity and mission of brothers. Read more...

This month NRVC's Sister Deborah Borneman, SS.C.M. will be giving two workshops to collaborating groups and taking part in an online discernment chat. Read more...

The NRVC board is accepting applications for the executive director position through December 16. Applicants must belong to a religious institute or society of apostolic life. Complete details are available online. Read more...

In honor of Christmas and New Year's the NRVC office will be closed December 23 and will reopen January 3. The staff and board of NRVC wish its members, collaborators, benefactors, and friends a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year. Read more...

These postcard-size prayer cards make beautiful Christmas card inserts and are an excellent giveaway item, especially in culturally diverse settings. Read more...

NRVC collaborators are offering a workshop, webinar, greeting cards, symposium proceedings in writing, a sabbatical, and a 2018 conference on intercultural competency. Read more...

The 2018 NRVC Convocation dates have been chosen: November 1-5, 2018 in Buffalo, New York. Details will be announced later in 2017. Meanwhile, note these important vocation dates for 2017. Read more...

As part of their successful "Vocation Culture Project" Augustinians annually hand out 30,000 mini-posters of their men in formation. They ask people connected to their ministries to display the poster as a reminder to pray for the men in the poster, for themselves, and for all discerners. Read more...