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- 2015 NRVC/CARA Family Influence Study
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- Message from the executive director
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- Best practices in vocation promotion
- J.S. Paluch Vocation Seminar address
- USCCB address pdf
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- Discussion Questions pdf
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- HORIZON - Current issue
- 2016 HORIZON No. 3 Summer digital edition and pdf -- Assessing candidates
- Editor's Note
- Updates
- The essentials of candidate assessment
- Assessing cross-cultural candidates
- Saying no to a candidate
- Selecting a psychologist to assess candidates
- Uncover the meaning in service
- Love your weakness
- Book notes
- Film notes
- HORIZON Library (under construction)
- Admissions
- Developing policies regarding HIV testing for applicants
- How communities are using admissions boards
- Moving from inquirer to applicant
- Developing admissions policies regarding HIV
- Psychological assessment: why, what and how to assess
- Tests for assessing applicants to religious communities
- Vocational discernment and the psychological report
- Assessment with cross-cultural candidates
- What happens with the assessment?
- The chilling effect of education debt
- When the vocation minister assesses
- Advertising (see Communications)
- Asian candidates
- Assessment
- The basics of psychological assessment
- Religion during adversity: What it tells us about vocation candidates
- Finding a psychologist to help with assessment
- Tests for assessing applicants to religious communities
- Psychological assessment: why, what and how to assess
- Faith development takes time, and it can be assessed
- Vocational discernment and the psychological report
- Assessment with cross-cultural candidates
- What happens with the assessment?
- When the vocation minister assesses
- The essentials of candidate assessment
- Assessing cross-cultural candidates
- Saying no to a candidate
- Selecting a psychologist to assess candidates
- Candidates looking for the “best deal” in religious life
- When a vocation director needs to say “no”
- Bible (see Scripture)
- Campus ministry
- Getting college students to think vocation
- What every vocation minister should know about campus ministry
- The search for identity among college-age adults
- Samuel Group: a year-long discernment program
- A campus program that builds on the new openness to religious life
- Campus ministry 101 for vocation ministers
- Profile of contemporary college students
- Young adults share experiences of vocation ministers on campus
- Campus ministry and how vocation ministry fits in
- The context of contemporary campus ministry and the students we try to reach
- The chilling effect of education debt
- How universities can cultivate vocations
- Survey shows Busy Person's Retreat holds some value for vocation ministers
- Why our students give church vocations careful thought
- Canon law
- CARA study of new vocations
- Communities that attract and the people who are entering them
- What newer members say about discernment programs
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- The NRVC-CARA study and its meaning for religious life
- How can we strengthen the witness of religious life?
- The future depends on listening to the Spirit, the young and each other
- How one community is using the NRVC-CARA study to move forward
- Six essential questions for every religious community
- Young voices respond to the NRVC-CARA study of new members
- Today's church and its vocation environment
- Chastity
- Celibate chastity: an affair of the heart
- A life of communal celibacy
- Celibate chastity: a sacrifice because of the kingdom of heaven
- Taking a sexual history
- The gift of sexuality: its challenge and blessing within a life of vowed celibacy
- Boundaries for celibates
- Sexuality and spirituality
- Celibacy at the movies
- Communications
- What every vocation minister should know about public relations and advertising
- With one voice: Addressing vocation communications throughout the congregation
- Work effectively with the news media
- A good story is still the most valuable tool of vocation directors
- 10 tips to make you a better speaker
- Make the most of your Web site by promoting it
- Preaching vocations: Telling the story and wooing hearts
- Put the Web to work for vocations
- Reach young adults where they are
- The 10 commandments of DVD production
- How vocation ministers handle initial inquiries
- Go pro: work effectively with a communications staff
- Four secrets to great presentations
- Help the media to help you
- Anatomy of a news release
- How instant messaging enhances my ministry
- Present your community to the world with Internet video and audio
- Use new media to promote vocations
- From fear to Facebook: first steps into social media
- Good reads for grasping digital culture
- Using social media to further vocation goals
- 25 ways to communicate your vocation message
- What can a hashtag do for you?
- Social media: an invitation rooted in the gospel
- Tap your Web site's potential
- Reframing religious presence in a digital culture
- Smart ways to use smartphones
- "Tipping Point" tips for communicating vocation messages
- Community life (see also Emerging communities)
- Recentering on the vows lived in community
- What I was looking for in community and what I found
- Community life in the monastic tradition: a call to conversion
- Community: ready or not?
- Community, communitas and downward mobility
- Implications of small-group living arrangements
- Creating a welcoming community that can help form new members
- Process for preparing a community to welcome and mentor new members
- Architecture and design can enhance your community life
- Communities that attract and the people who are entering them
- Community appeals to a lonely nation
- What do we mean by community? What do candidates dream about?
- Questions we must ask to build strong communities
- How one community renewed its spirit and attracted new members
- Book notes: Conversion goes under the microscope
- Book notes: Searching for the common good
- Cultural issues (see Multicultural issues, Asian candidates, Hispanics)
- Culture of vocations
- Demographics of religious life (see also CARA study of new vocations)
- Divisions in church and religious communities
- Discernment
- Discernment with and for adolescents
- Issues that need to be explored during vocation discernment
- Discerning a religious vocation: some reflections
- Discernment as an experience of the Holy Spirit
- False fears: how evil can undermine God's call
- A general approach to guiding vocational discernment
- Extending the circle of community
- Giving young adults discernment tools
- How to develop an effective discernment house for college students
- Current books, music and videos for discernment
- Discernment with a little help from Francis and Clare
- Making a vocation journey with a Latino young adult
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- Soul inquiry: a vocational discernment tool
- What I learned from launching a discernment group for college women
- Discernment dissected
- What newer members say about discernment programs
- How a discernment house can enhance vocation ministry
- Justice retreat provides discernment perspective
- Vocational discernment and the psychological report
- Discovering “what God wants” during vocation conversations
- Using art to explore vocation
- Taking ourselves lightly: a place for humor and play in discernment
- Exploring images of God during discernment
- Vocation meditations on women and need in Scripture
- The must-knows about discerning enclosed life
- You're not alone
- Ready? Set ... GOD!
- Best bets in discernment books, understanding teen faith
- The heart's calling: feelings in vocational self-discovery
- Book notes: Book offers discernment help in a user-friendly way
- Book & film notes: Book provides insight on context of discernment
- Book notes: Book helps discerners of all types hear God’s voice amid the noise
- Book notes: Book tasting
- Doors of discernment
- Book notes: An essential guide
- Book notes: Classic Nouwen wisdom
- Ecclesial diversity
- Making ecclesial diversity work in religious communities
- Crisis of Catholic identity in women’s communities: a challenge for vocation ministers
- Catholic identity, New Age and women religious
- Who are the conservative, separatist and Marian Catholics?
- Book notes: Religious life book shows today’s tensions are not new
- Emerging communities
- Ethics
- Evangelization (see New evangelization)
- Families (see also Parents)
- Film (see Popular media)
- Financial concerns
- Formation
- Creating a welcoming community that can help form new members
- The inner journey of the transition into religious life
- Faith development takes time, and it can be assessed
- Keep the conversation going between vocation and formation directors
- Do priests need better preparation?
- Human formation never ends: candidates and adult maturity
- Helping serious discerners prepare for human formation
- Promote intellectual formation among young adult discerners
- Beginning spiritual formation with young adult discerners
- Book notes: Good entertainment, weak spiritual guidance
- Book notes: Book is a treasury of information and insight
- Feed your spirit: Energized by honest discussion
- Future of religious life
- Let’s build a future for religious brothers
- Portrait of emerging religious communities in the United States
- What has happened since the FORUS study gave religious life 10 years to make life-saving changes?
- Sustainability: New membership through an ecological lens
- Belonging to God, each other and the future
- Can we allow a new generation to shape religious life?
- Emerging religious communities and lay movements
- The new interest in religious life
- Translating the religious way of life to a new generation
- Paths to the future
- Shifts in religious priesthood and the resulting challenges
- What does it mean to be a priest within a religious community?
- Inquirers and applicants continue to increase
- Empowered by the Holy Spirit, let’s work together to build our future
- Inviting thresholds
- The call to new evangelization
- The current state of vocations and where we go from here
- The NRVC-CARA study and its meaning for religious life
- How can we strengthen the witness of religious life?
- Who are the emerging pastoral leaders?
- The chilling effect of education debt
- A loving gaze at religious life realities
- The shape of religious life to come
- 11 reasons to keep building our future
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- A marginal life: pursuing holiness in the 21st century
- Vocation ministry on the precipice
- An open letter to vocation ministers about our future
- Book notes: Lessons to learn from letting go
- Book notes: Connecting the dots to find a hopeful future
- The future depends on listening to the Spirit, the young and each other
- Book notes: Minding the gap between our vision and our reality
- A new form of membership: temporary commitment
- Generations (see also Young adults)
- Effective vocation ministry in an increasingly multicultural church
- Fostering healthy intergenerational living
- Can we allow a new generation to shape religious life?
- Translating the religious way of life to a new generation
- Generation me
- Vocation survey shows continued openness to religious life
- Book notes: Young Catholic women speak up; a sister reflects on a life of service
- Book notes: Growing self-centeredness challenges society and religious life
- Who are the emerging pastoral leaders?
- How “Evangelical Catholicism” is shaping the church and religious life
- Qualities of younger women in religious life today
- What newer and older members offer each other
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- How my community has welcomed midlife vocations
- Health issues
- Developing policies regarding HIV testing for applicants
- How to evaluate candidates with chronic health issues
- Ethical issues raised by candidates with health concerns
- Living religious life with chronic illness
- What canon law says about health concerns in prospective members
- Developing admissions policies regarding HIV
- How MS or epilepsy could affect a candidate to religious life
- Mobility issues in prospective members of a religious community
- Chronic back pain and the capacity to live religious life
- What every vocation minister should know about process addictions
- Hispanics
- History of religious life, NRVC
- Hope
- Feed your spirit: The gates of hope
- Hope in vocation ministry is not an oxymoron
- Creating a hopeful future for religious life
- Let’s celebrate consecrated life
- Fools for Christ: Promoting vocations in tumultuous times
- Nurturing a hope rooted in Jesus
- God has shouted, "Yes, yes, yes!"
- Hope and security: new foundations
- What gives me hope
- Religious life history and new membership
- How I stay healthy and hopeful as a vocation minister
- Hope from the trenches
- Would life on this planet be any different without religious life?
- Hope begins where hope begins
- You are God’s unshakable hope
- Renew the glory of your vocation by clinging to the hand of God
- Hope in an anxious age
- Spirit still alive in “shaky situations”
- Signs of vitality in religious life
- 11 reasons to keep building our future
- Reflection: God does more than we can ask or imagine
- Houses of discernment
- Humor
- International approaches to vocation ministry
- How importing foreign-born members is affecting vocation ministry and the U.S. church
- Nigeria: plentiful candidates bring blessings and challenges
- Obstacles and successes in British vocation ministry
- Great rivers of grace: Vocation ministry in the Amazon region of Brazil
- Vocation ministry in Canada today
- Challenges and successes of vocation ministry in Australia
- A brief overview of vocation ministry in Japan
- Vocation realities for one religious order in Ivory Coast
- An international conference to encourage vocations
- Vocation ministry in Ireland today
- Preparing new members for an intercultural world
- UK vocation ministry: new ventures and growth
- Intercultural issues (see Multicultural)
- Leadership of religious communities
- What vocation ministers want from leadership
- Vocation ministry thrives with clear expectations, real authority
- What I expect from a vocation minister
- My expections of vocation ministers
- The way forward for leaders and vocation ministers
- One model for vocation ministry
- How the New Orleans Jesuits conduct vocation ministry
- The selection, care and feeding of vocation ministers
- How we organized a Day of Discussion for leadership and vocation directors
- Leadership focus makes the difference for vocations
- Leadership makes the difference
- Put your chapter to work for vocations
- Media (see Popular media, Communications)
- Membership
- Mental health (see Psychological health)
- Mentoring
- Mercy
- Millennials (see Youth and young adults)
- Multicultural issues
- Effective vocation ministry in an increasingly multicultural church
- The challenges of crossing life’s bridges
- Toward a new understanding of cultural encounter in our communities
- Welcoming "the other" in our midst
- Outline of a successful vocation retreat for Hispanic young adults
- Follow up to NRVC's "Dimensions of Diversity" Convocation
- How my community embraces multicultural living
- A conversation with cultural diversity teachers
- Community life for the lone person of a different ethnic group
- Inviting people who are racially or culturally different into our communities
- Multicultural resources
- Making a vocation journey with a Latino young adult
- Assessment with cross-cultural candidates
- Working with Vietnamese candidates in vocation discernment
- The gifts and challenges of immigrant religious communities
- Book notes: Book challenges us to racial justice
- Transformative love, passion for justice belong in vocation ministry
- Understanding and working with Filipino candidates
- Inviting African American Catholics to religious life
- Making multiculturalism work: one community’s experience
- Study sheds light on cultural diversity
- Six keys to inviting Asian Americans
- Affirming a vocation culture in Hispanic families
- What every vocation director should know about Filipino families
- Assessing cross-cultural candidates
- Music (see Popular media)
- New evangelization
- Newer members
- Outreach (see also Program outlines)
- Presenting the option of religious life: Where should vocation ministers be?
- Vocation outreach to former and current volunteers
- What does it take to attract and sustain new members to religious communities?
- How one community started building bridges to young adults
- Connecting with Millennials
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- Best practices for vocation ministry
- Vocation exhibits at large events: What happens? Is it worthwhile?
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- Parents
- Parishes
- Pilgrimage (see Program outlines)
- Popular media
- Current books, music and videos for discernment
- TV can be a vocation ministry tool
- A brief theology of television
- What Harry Potter has to say about vocation
- A novice's perspective on vocation messages in pop culture
- Seen any good movies lately?
- Finding vocation themes in popular movies
- Celibacy at the movies
- Popular music can help us deliver a vocation message
- Movies that point toward Mystery
- Use new media to promote vocations
- Film notes: Documentary is rich in teachings
- Film notes: Film delivers a loving but incomplete portrait
- Pope
- Religious life makes Pope Francis tick
- Feed your spirit: These two men inspire us
- “The Joy of the Gospel” has messages for us
- The "Francis effect" on religious life
- Daring to live as Pope Francis encourages
- Will the pope inspire a vocation bounce?
- Year of Consecrated Life: Highlights of the pope’s letter to religious
- Year of Consecrated Life: Q/A, address to women religious in Korea, ideas for celebrating
- Year of Consecrated Life: Rejoice in your vocation
- Year of Consecrated Life: A word of encouragement
- Priesthood within a religious community
- Program outlines
- Effective vocation programs with a mentoring dimension
- Sister, you go girl: a cool way to present religious life to young people
- Volleyball as a vocation tool
- How we stay in touch with promising high school students
- Seeking a new dawn together: organizing a vocation symposium
- Meeting our diocesan counterparts: a positive joint meeting of NRVC and NCDVD
- How one community started building bridges to young adults
- A successful vocations program I discovered by accident
- Programs that work: Pilgrimage Tour, Women’s Retreat
- Outline of a successful vocation retreat for Hispanic young adults
- How to develop an effective discernment house for college students
- A parish mission that fosters vocation culture
- A workshop to energize the community and form bonds with young adults
- Samuel Group: a year-long discernment program
- Ready? Set ... GOD!
- Process for preparing a community to welcome and mentor new members
- Vocation visioning weekend
- An international conference to encourage vocations
- Get membership involved with a Vocation Summit
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- How we organized a Day of Discussion for leadership and vocation directors
- What I learned from launching a discernment group for college women
- Justice retreat provides discernment perspective
- How Duchesne House leads students to reflection
- Best practices for vocation ministry
- Examples of best practices
- Turning point: building consensus to make membership a priority
- Pilgrimage as a way to build vocation culture
- How one community is using the NRVC-CARA study to move forward
- Five winning ways to extend contact with young adults
- What are the best practices for “Come and See” events?
- Strategies to address the lifestyle gap, help newcomers fit in
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- My week with the sisters
- We’re moving forward
- 25 ideas that worked
- Summer retreat kicks off vocation year
- Psychological health
- Finding a psychologist to help with assessment
- The basics of psychological assessment
- Assessing candidates with mental health concerns
- The obsessive-compulsive candidate: striving for perfection
- The traumatized applicant and the vocation director
- Recognizing personality disorders in candidates
- The essential facts about depression
- What every vocation director should know about addictions
- When a vocation director needs to say “no”
- The inner journey of the transition into religious life
- What every vocation minister should know about process addictions
- Healthy transitions for new members, ministers and the community
- Public relations (see Communications)
- Public speaking (see Communications)
- Reconciliation
- Role of religious life / Nature of religious life
- The role of religious in the church and world
- The enduring value of religious life in the age of the laity
- Vocation ministers walk forward in faith to welcome new life
- Feed your spirit: What you’ve taught me
- The built-in tensions in apostolic vocations
- The shape of religious life to come
- Head into the deep
- Transfigured by God
- In gratitude for the messengers of the Master’s invitation
- Reflection: Faith multiplies in sharing
- Consecrated life is at the heart of the church
- The evolving theology of consecrated life
- Feed your spirit: Who are we?
- Film notes: Innocence robbed and redeemed
- Film notes: Film delivers a loving but incomplete portrait
- Scripture and vocation / Vocation ministry
- Nurturing a hope rooted in Jesus
- Following Jesus: a journey out far and in deep
- Journey into the Future
- Peter, too, walks on water
- "Here I am!" Call in the Old Testament
- Call and commission in the New Testament
- Jesus' deep invitations to contemporary religious life
- Consider Paul, our brother
- The Gospels and the journey to religious life
- Vocation meditations on women and need in Scripture
- Head into the deep
- Reflection: God does more than we can ask or imagine
- “The Joy of the Gospel” has messages for us
- What do the Bible's call stories tell us about vocations?
- Self care for vocation ministers
- Leisure and the vocation minister
- How I stay healthy and hopeful as a vocation minister
- How I found my center as a vocation minister
- Five steps to a smooth transition out of vocation ministry
- Renew the glory of your vocation by clinging to the hand of God
- Nine ways to thrive as a vocation minister
- Feed your spirit: What are you really doing?
- Vocation ministry
- Feed your spirit: Being at home in your own story
- Love your weakness
- Service projects
- Sex abuse
- Vocational assessment helps for identifying candidates at risk for pedophilia and ephebophilia
- Frequently asked questions about sexual misconduct by clergy and religious
- One vocation director’s response to the sex abuse scandals
- Resources on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and in society at large
- The Catholic Church and child sexual abuse
- New knowledge about sexual abuse by Catholic clergy
- Safe youth ministry is everyone’s job
- Sexuality (see also Chastity)
- Social media (see also Communications)
- Use new media to promote vocations
- From fear to Facebook: first steps into social media
- Using social media to further vocation goals
- Social media is everywhere: steps to using it in vocation ministry
- Book notes: Message to engage online is spot on
- Social media: an invitation rooted in the gospel
- Smart ways to use smartphones
- Spiritual growth
- Strategic planning / Structuring vocation ministry
- Defining, measuring and celebrating success in vocation ministry
- Taking stock of vocation ministry
- The Vincentian five-year provincial plan for vocation promotion
- Congregation of Notre Dame five-year strategic plan for vocations
- Crosier Fathers and Brothers three-year strategic plan for recruitment
- Vocation plan for the Benedictine Sisters of Ferdinand, Indiana
- Strategic plan for vocations of the Dominican Friars of the Central Province
- Five-year vocation plan of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Toledo, Ohio
- Operating plan for the National Vocations Office of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ
- 10 keys to vocation ministry success
- Strategic planning can make you more effective
- Developing a strategic plan with a consultant
- Best practices for vocation ministry
- The current state of vocations and where we go from here
- Five steps to a smooth transition out of vocation ministry
- Feed your spirit: What are you really doing?
- Lay vocation ministers speak out
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- Lessons for vocation ministers from the RCIA
- Study (see CARA study)
- Supervision
- Sustainability
- Theological reflection—encouraging it with young adults
- Theological reflection on vocation ministry
- Theology of vocation
- Theology of vocation from a liturgical perspective
- "Here I am!" Call in the Old Testament
- Call and commission in the New Testament
- Theology of vocation through the centuries
- Jesus' deep invitations to contemporary religious life
- Book notes: Book explores theology of vocation
- Vocation as a lifelong, personal adventure for every Christian
- Overcoming the influence of consumerism on vocation
- What do the popes say about vocation?
- Exploring images of God during discernment
- Book notes: Emerging theologians offer insights
- Reach out, draw in
- Book notes: Sorting out the complexity of vocation
- Same God, different ways to love
- Transitions
- Vocation ministry
- Volunteers, outreach to them (see also Service)
- Vow of celibacy (see Chastity)
- Vow of obedience
- Obedience: showing up and listening for God
- Exploring three dimensions of the vow of obedience
- The challenge of obedience
- Obedience as sacrifice and blessing
- Dissecting a typical conversation about the vow of obedience
- Obedience, lived daily, takes us beyond our dreams
- The wisdom of obedience for communities in mission
- Vow of poverty
- Reflections from a new member on the vow of poverty
- Vowed poverty: Gospel stewardship in a consumerist society
- The vow of consecrated poverty and other scary words
- Religious poverty: witness to the risen Christ
- Surprised by splendor: new members and the vow of poverty
- To live in poverty is a call to love
- Websites (see Communications, Social media)
- Year of Consecrated Life
- Year of Mercy (see Mercy)
- Young adults
- Young men speak out about priesthood and religious life
- What religious communities should know about Gen X
- “Lord, it is good to be here!”
- Building bridges between young adults and members of religious communities
- The challenges of crossing life’s bridges
- Strategies to help build bridges between young adults and religious
- Reflections on “emerging adults”
- How one community started building bridges to young adults
- Who are today’s young adult Catholics?
- Vocation issues raised by younger candidates
- Ministering to the Millennials
- Snapshot of the Millennial generation
- A new generation of Catholics
- The broad spectrum of young adult Catholics
- Grow up? Not so fast
- How young Catholics see themselves in the church
- Generation me
- Book notes: Books reveal truths about young adults
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- The things they carry: burdens and blessings of emerging adults today
- What I learned from launching a discernment group for college women
- Vocation survey shows continued openness to religious life
- Join hands with young adult ministers
- Book notes: Nuanced portrait of young adults points to hopes, challenges
- What we see in religious life and some ways to reach out
- The chilling effect of education debt
- Book notes: A book that makes Catholicism seem hip
- Responding to new openness toward our life
- Community appeals to a lonely nation
- New insights on young Catholics will benefit ministry
- Book notes: Sexuality on campus. Can we talk?
- Book notes: Young Catholic women speak up; a sister reflects on a life of service
- Young adult ministry
- Youth, youth ministry
- Forming youth leaders in a vocation ministry context
- How we stay in touch with promising high school students
- Discernment with and for adolescents
- Connecting with Millennials
- Ready? Set ... GOD!
- Best bets in discernment books, understanding teen faith
- Let's ask the right questions about engaging Catholic youth
- Vocation exhibits at large events: What happens? Is it worthwhile?
- Masculinity: Where does a vocation fit in?
- Safe youth ministry is everyone’s job
- Why get trained for safe youth ministry?
- Admissions
- About HORIZON
- HORIZON Sign-up
- HORIZON issue index
- NRVC Monthly Newsletter
- Convocation Oct. 27-31
- New NRVC executive director
- Brother Paul honored
- Misericordia Fund grants 43 scholarships
- Welcome Maureen Cetera
- Vocation ambassadors attract attention
- VISION Vocation Guide
- Social media presentation Sept. 17
- Remember our benefactors
- Brother Charles Kitson, F.S.C.
- Resource of the month
- NRVC collaborator news
- Calendar
- VISION Vocation Guide
- Professional documents
- Church documents
- Media/press
- Web links
- Videos
- Member Websites
- Programs/Events
- Calendar
- Spring & Summer events
- Fall & Winter events
- Special events
- Vocation Ambassadors
- Today's Catholic Sisters
- Convocations
- World Youth Day
- Holy Year of Mercy
- NCYC
- Year of Consecrated Life
- Pope announces 2015 dedicated to consecrated life
- Pope Francis Vocation Prayer Cards
- Year of Consecrated Life Parish Packet and other resources
- Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter
- Rejoice!
- Year of Consecrated Life Logo
- For pastors
- Year of Consecrated Life plans and schedule
- SONG: Wake the world with dawning joy
- Day of Prayer with Religious
- Moving Forward in Hope
- Advent Days of Renewal
- International Vocation Conference
- Membership
- Vocation Director's Manual
- Assessment and Application Process
- Admissions Process and Policies
- Assessment Tools
- Behavioral Assessment Form
- Faith Assessment Form
- Vocation Assessment Helps for Identifying Candidates at Risk for Pedophilia and Ephebophilia
- Faith development takes time, and it can be assessed
- Tests for assessing applicants to religious communities
- Candidates looking for the “best deal” in religious life
- When the vocation minister assesses
- Assessment with cross-cultural candidates
- What happens with the assessment?
- When a vocation director needs to say “no”
- Canon Law
- Consent Forms and Document Disposition
- Financial Policies and Educational Debt
- Psychological Assessment and Mental Health
- Psychological Testing Form
- Sample Psychological Assessment Release of Information Form
- Finding a psychologist to help with assessment
- Psychological assessment: why, what and how to assess
- Vocational discernment and the psychological report
- The basics of psychological assessment
- Assessing candidates with mental health concerns
- The obsessive-compulsive candidate: striving for perfection
- Recognizing personality disorders in candidates
- The essential facts about depression
- The inner journey of the transition into religious life
- What every vocation minister should know about process addictions
- Healthy transitions for new members, ministers and the community
- What every vocation director should know about addictions
- When a vocation director needs to say “no”
- Candidate Issues
- Generational Differences
- Vocation issues raised by younger candidates
- What religious communities should know about Gen X
- Building bridges between young adults and members of religious communities
- Strategies to help build bridges between young adults and religious
- How one community started building bridges to young adults
- Can we allow a new generation to shape religious life?
- Translating the religious way of life to a new generation
- Vocation survey shows continued openness to religious life
- Who are the emerging pastoral leaders?
- Qualities of younger women in religious life today
- What newer and older members offer each other
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- How my community has welcomed midlife vocations
- Canon law and older vocations
- Book Notes
- Today's church and its vocation environment
- Fostering healthy intergenerational living
- Generation me
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- How “Evangelical Catholicism” is shaping the church and religious life
- Health Issues
- Developing policies regarding HIV testing for applicants
- Developing admissions policies regarding HIV
- What canon law says about health concerns in prospective members
- Ethical issues raised by candidates with health concerns
- How to evaluate candidates with chronic health issues
- Living religious life with chronic illness
- How MS or epilepsy could affect a candidate to religious life
- Mobility issues in prospective members of a religious community
- Chronic back pain and the capacity to live religious life
- What every vocation minister should know about process addictions
- Immigration and International Issues
- How importing foreign-born members is affecting vocation ministry and the U.S. church
- Nigeria: plentiful candidates bring blessings and challenges
- Obstacles and successes in British vocation ministry
- Great rivers of grace: Vocation ministry in the Amazon region of Brazil
- Vocation ministry in Canada today
- Challenges and successes of vocation ministry in Australia
- A brief overview of vocation ministry in Japan
- Vocation realities for one religious order in Ivory Coast
- An international conference to encourage vocations
- Vocation ministry in Ireland today
- Preparing new members for an intercultural world
- UK vocation ministry: new ventures and growth
- Intercultural Issues & Multicultural Awareness
- Inviting African American Catholics to religious life
- Outline of a successful vocation retreat for Hispanic young adults
- Study looks at vocation consideration; challenges among Hispanics
- Latino diversity: complex but important to vocation ministry
- Affirming a vocation culture in Hispanic families
- Effective vocation ministry in an increasingly multicultural church
- The challenges of crossing life’s bridges
- Toward a new understanding of cultural encounter in our communities
- How my community embraces multicultural living
- A conversation with cultural diversity teachers
- Community life for the lone person of a different ethnic group
- Inviting people who are racially or culturally different into our communities
- Multicultural resources
- Making a vocation journey with a Latino young adult
- Assessment with cross-cultural candidates
- Working with Vietnamese candidates in vocation discernment
- The gifts and challenges of immigrant religious communities
- Transformative love, passion for justice belong in vocation ministry
- Understanding and working with Filipino candidates
- Making multiculturalism work: one community’s experience
- Study sheds light on cultural diversity
- Six keys to inviting Asian Americans
- What every vocation director should know about Filipino families
- Welcoming "the other" in our midst
- Follow up to NRVC's "Dimensions of Diversity" Convocation
- Book Notes
- Sexuality & Sexual Misconduct
- Vocational assessment helps for identifying candidates at risk for pedophilia and ephebophilia
- Frequently asked questions about sexual misconduct by clergy and religious
- One vocation director’s response to the sex abuse scandals
- Resources on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and in society at large
- The Catholic Church and child sexual abuse
- New knowledge about sexual abuse by Catholic clergy
- Safe youth ministry is everyone’s job
- What you should know about candidates and pornography
- Issues of sexual diversity and the call to religious life
- Sexual diversity and contemporary U.S. religious life
- Sexuality and spirituality
- What every vocation minister should know about healthy sexuality
- Trauma and Its Impact upon Applicants
- Generational Differences
- Inquirers and Discerners
- College Students
- What vocation ministers can learn from college admissions professionals
- Getting college students to think vocation
- What every vocation minister should know about campus ministry
- The search for identity among college-age adults
- A campus program that builds on the new openness to religious life
- Campus ministry 101 for vocation ministers
- Profile of contemporary college students
- Young adults share experiences of vocation ministers on campus
- Campus ministry and how vocation ministry fits in
- The context of contemporary campus ministry and the students we try to reach
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- What I learned from launching a discernment group for college women
- Survey shows Busy Person's Retreat holds some value for vocation ministers
- Why our students give church vocations careful thought
- Discernment
- Discernment with and for adolescents
- Issues that need to be explored during vocation discernment
- Discerning a religious vocation: some reflections
- Discernment as an experience of the Holy Spirit
- False fears: how evil can undermine God's call
- A general approach to guiding vocational discernment
- Giving young adults discernment tools
- Current books, music and videos for discernment
- Discernment with a little help from Francis and Clare
- Making a vocation journey with a Latino young adult
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- Soul inquiry: a vocational discernment tool
- What I learned from launching a discernment group for college women
- Discernment dissected
- What newer members say about discernment programs
- Justice retreat provides discernment perspective
- Vocational discernment and the psychological report
- Discovering “what God wants” during vocation conversations
- Using art to explore vocation
- Taking ourselves lightly: a place for humor and play in discernment
- Exploring images of God during discernment
- The must-knows about discerning enclosed life
- You're not alone
- Ready? Set ... GOD!
- The heart's calling: feelings in vocational self-discovery
- Book Notes
- Book & Film Notes
- Book Notes
- Best bets in discernment books, understanding teen faith
- Book notes
- Emerging Adults
- Join hands with young adult ministers
- Young men speak out about priesthood and religious life
- “Lord, it is good to be here!”
- The challenges of crossing life’s bridges
- Who are today’s young adult Catholics?
- Vocation issues raised by younger candidates
- Ministering to the Millennials
- Snapshot of the Millennial generation
- The broad spectrum of young adult Catholics
- Grow up? Not so fast
- How young Catholics see themselves in the church
- Generation me
- The things they carry: burdens and blessings of emerging adults today
- Vocation survey shows continued openness to religious life
- What we see in religious life and some ways to reach out
- Responding to new openness toward our life
- Community appeals to a lonely nation
- Five winning ways to extend contact with young adults
- Reflections on “emerging adults”
- A new generation of Catholics
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- Book Notes: A book that makes Catholicism seem hip
- New insights on young Catholics will benefit ministry
- Book notes
- Parents and Families
- Same God, different ways to love
- The profound effect of families on vocations
- Parents have fears, too
- Affirming a vocation culture in Hispanic families
- What every vocation director should know about Filipino families
- How Holy Cross reaches out to parents
- Coping with parental resistance: explanations and possible solutions
- Confessions of a seminarian’s mother
- Building bridges with a Family Gathering
- Families & vocations by the numbers
- Young Catholics
- Apply best practices from young adult ministry to vocation ministry
- Connecting with Millennials
- How we stay in touch with promising high school students
- Forming youth leaders in a vocation ministry context
- Discernment with and for adolescents
- Vocation exhibits at large events: What happens? Is it worthwhile?
- Masculinity: Where does a vocation fit in?
- Safe youth ministry is everyone’s job
- Ready? Set ... GOD!
- Let's ask the right questions about engaging Catholic youth
- Why get trained for safe youth ministry?
- Best bets in discernment books, understanding teen faith
- College Students
- Marketing Vocations
- Advertising & Media
- With one voice: Addressing vocation communications throughout the congregation
- Work effectively with the news media
- What every vocation minister should know about public relations and advertising
- A good story is still the most valuable tool of vocation directors
- 10 tips to make you a better speaker
- Preaching vocations: Telling the story and wooing hearts
- The 10 commandments of DVD production
- Go pro: work effectively with a communications staff
- Four secrets to great presentations
- Help the media to help you
- Anatomy of a news release
- Present your community to the world with Internet video and audio
- Use new media to promote vocations
- Good reads for grasping digital culture
- 25 ways to communicate your vocation message
- "Tipping Point" tips for communicating vocation messages
- Reframing religious presence in a digital culture
- Popular Media
- Current books, music and videos for discernment
- Use new media to promote vocations
- Celibacy at the movies
- TV can be a vocation ministry tool
- A brief theology of television
- What Harry Potter has to say about vocation
- A novice's perspective on vocation messages in pop culture
- Seen any good movies lately?
- Finding vocation themes in popular movies
- Popular music can help us deliver a vocation message
- Movies that point toward Mystery
- Film Notes
- Film Notes
- Social Media
- Reach young adults where they are
- How instant messaging enhances my ministry
- From fear to Facebook: first steps into social media
- Using social media to further vocation goals
- What can a hashtag do for you?
- Social media: an invitation rooted in the gospel
- Use new media to promote vocations
- Social media is everywhere: steps to using it in vocation ministry
- Book notes
- Smart ways to use smartphones
- Strategic Planning for Vocation Culture
- What does it take to attract and sustain new members to religious communities?
- Developing a culture of vocations
- Forming a vocation culture since the Continental Congress
- Two programs that further a vocation culture
- Vitality of mission encourages a vocation culture
- Defining an internal culture of vocations
- Vocation promotion in contemporary culture
- Presenting the option of religious life: Where should vocation ministers be?
- Defining, measuring and celebrating success in vocation ministry
- The Vincentian five-year provincial plan for vocation promotion
- Congregation of Notre Dame five-year strategic plan for vocations
- Crosier Fathers and Brothers three-year strategic plan for recruitment
- Vocation plan for the Benedictine Sisters of Ferdinand, Indiana
- Strategic plan for vocations of the Dominican Friars of the Central Province
- Five-year vocation plan of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Toledo, Ohio
- Operating plan for the National Vocations Office of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ
- 10 keys to vocation ministry success
- Strategic planning can make you more effective
- Developing a strategic plan with a consultant
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- The current state of vocations and where we go from here
- Five steps to a smooth transition out of vocation ministry
- Taking stock of vocation ministry
- Websites
- Advertising & Media
- Religious Life and Vows
- Charism and Religious Life
- How does charism affect vocation ministry and renewal?
- Let’s build a future for religious brothers
- The must-knows about discerning enclosed life
- The enduring value of religious life in the age of the laity
- The built-in tensions in apostolic vocations
- The shape of religious life to come
- Head into the deep
- Transfigured by God
- In gratitude for the messengers of the Master’s invitation
- Reflection: Faith multiplies in sharing
- Consecrated life is at the heart of the church
- The evolving theology of consecrated life
- The role of religious in the church and world
- Feed your spirit
- Communal Life
- Architecture and design can enhance your community life
- Recentering on the vows lived in community
- What I was looking for in community and what I found
- Community life in the monastic tradition: a call to conversion
- Community: ready or not?
- Community, communitas and downward mobility
- Implications of small-group living arrangements
- Creating a welcoming community that can help form new members
- Process for preparing a community to welcome and mentor new members
- Communities that attract and the people who are entering them
- Community appeals to a lonely nation
- What do we mean by community? What do candidates dream about?
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- Questions we must ask to build strong communities
- Formation Articles
- Catholic identity, New Age and women religious
- Keep the conversation going between vocation and formation directors
- Creating a welcoming community that can help form new members
- Human formation never ends: candidates and adult maturity
- Promote intellectual formation among young adult discerners
- The inner journey of the transition into religious life
- Beginning spiritual formation with young adult discerners
- Crisis of Catholic identity in women’s communities: a challenge for vocation ministers
- Book Notes
- Helping serious discerners prepare for human formation
- Book Notes
- Feed your spirit
- Future of Religious Life
- Let’s build a future for religious brothers
- Portrait of emerging religious communities in the United States
- What has happened since the FORUS study gave religious life 10 years to make life-saving changes?
- Sustainability: New membership through an ecological lens
- Belonging to God, each other and the future
- Can we allow a new generation to shape religious life?
- The new interest in religious life
- Translating the religious way of life to a new generation
- A marginal life: pursuing holiness in the 21st century
- Paths to the future
- Shifts in religious priesthood and the resulting challenges
- Inquirers and applicants continue to increase
- Empowered by the Holy Spirit, let’s work together to build our future
- The call to new evangelization
- The current state of vocations and where we go from here
- The NRVC-CARA study and its meaning for religious life
- How can we strengthen the witness of religious life?
- The future depends on listening to the Spirit, the young and each other
- Who are the emerging pastoral leaders?
- A loving gaze at religious life realities
- The shape of religious life to come
- 11 reasons to keep building our future
- An open letter to vocation ministers about our future
- Book Notes
- Inviting thresholds
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- Book Notes
- History of Religious Life
- Religious Vows
- Chastity
- Celibate chastity: an affair of the heart
- A life of communal celibacy
- Celibate chastity: a sacrifice because of the kingdom of heaven
- Taking a sexual history
- The gift of sexuality: its challenge and blessing within a life of vowed celibacy
- Boundaries for celibates
- Sexuality and spirituality
- Celibacy at the movies
- Vow of obedience
- Obedience: showing up and listening for God
- Exploring three dimensions of the vow of obedience
- The challenge of obedience
- Obedience as sacrifice and blessing
- Dissecting a typical conversation about the vow of obedience
- Obedience, lived daily, takes us beyond our dreams
- The wisdom of obedience for communities in mission
- Vow of poverty
- Reflections from a new member on the vow of poverty
- Vowed poverty: Gospel stewardship in a consumerist society
- The vow of consecrated poverty and other scary words
- Religious poverty: witness to the risen Christ
- Surprised by splendor: new members and the vow of poverty
- To live in poverty is a call to love
- Chastity
- Charism and Religious Life
- Theology of Call & Vocation
- Emerging Communities & Secular Institutes
- Priesthood, Popes and Papal Messages
- What does it mean to be a priest within a religious community?
- Shifts in religious priesthood and the resulting challenges
- The gift of religious priesthood
- Religious life makes Pope Francis tick
- Daring to live as Pope Francis encourages
- Will the pope inspire a vocation bounce?
- Following Jesus: a journey out far and in deep
- Book Notes
- Feed your spirit
- “The Joy of the Gospel” has messages for us
- Year of Consecrated Life
- Year of Consecrated Life
- Year of Consecrated Life
- Year of Consecrated Life
- The "Francis effect" on religious life
- Reconciliation
- Reconciliation within and among religious communities
- Making ecclesial diversity work in religious communities
- Meeting our diocesan counterparts: a positive joint meeting of NRVC and NCDVD
- Vocation ministers as ambassadors for Christ: a reconciling presence
- Who are the conservative, separatist and Marian Catholics?
- Vocation ministers walk forward in faith to welcome new life
- Vocation ministers can follow St. Paul’s path toward reconciliation
- Scripture
- Vocation meditations on women and need in Scripture
- Nurturing a hope rooted in Jesus
- Following Jesus: a journey out far and in deep
- Journey into the Future
- Peter, too, walks on water
- Call and commission in the New Testament
- Consider Paul, our brother
- The Gospels and the journey to religious life
- Head into the deep
- Reflection: God does more than we can ask or imagine
- "Here I am!" Call in the Old Testament
- Jesus' deep invitations to contemporary religious life
- “The Joy of the Gospel” has messages for us
- What do the Bible's call stories tell us about vocations?
- Theological Reflection and Spiritual Growth
- Transfigured by God
- Encouraging theological reflection among young adults
- Faith development takes time, and it can be assessed
- How Duchesne House leads students to reflection
- Theological reflection: a success story
- Following Jesus: a journey out far and in deep
- Journey into the Future
- Book Notes
- Feed your Spirit
- Feed your spirit
- Feed your spirit
- Theology of Vocation
- "Here I am!" Call in the Old Testament
- Theology of vocation from a liturgical perspective
- Call and commission in the New Testament
- Theology of vocation through the centuries
- Vocation as a lifelong, personal adventure for every Christian
- Overcoming the influence of consumerism on vocation
- What do the popes say about vocation?
- Exploring images of God during discernment
- Same God, different ways to love
- Jesus' deep invitations to contemporary religious life
- Book Notes
- Trends, Issues and Best Practices
- Ethics in Vocation Ministry
- Hope and Humor
- Hope in vocation ministry is not an oxymoron
- Creating a hopeful future for religious life
- Let’s celebrate consecrated life
- Fools for Christ: Promoting vocations in tumultuous times
- Nurturing a hope rooted in Jesus
- Hope and security: new foundations
- How I stay healthy and hopeful as a vocation minister
- Hope from the trenches
- Would life on this planet be any different without religious life?
- Hope begins where hope begins
- You are God’s unshakable hope
- Renew the glory of your vocation by clinging to the hand of God
- Hope in an anxious age
- Signs of vitality in religious life
- 11 reasons to keep building our future
- Reflection: God does more than we can ask or imagine
- Taking ourselves lightly: a place for humor and play in discernment
- God has shouted, "Yes, yes, yes!"
- What gives me hope
- Spirit still alive in “shaky situations”
- Laughing with the saints
- Mentoring and Supervision
- Professional Behavior and Boundaries
- Research and Professional Studies
- Communities that attract and the people who are entering them
- What newer members say about discernment programs
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- The NRVC-CARA study and its meaning for religious life
- How can we strengthen the witness of religious life?
- The future depends on listening to the Spirit, the young and each other
- How one community is using the NRVC-CARA study to move forward
- Six essential questions for every religious community
- Young voices respond to the NRVC-CARA study of new members
- Today's church and its vocation environment
- Self-care for Vocation Ministers
- Leisure and the vocation minister
- How I stay healthy and hopeful as a vocation minister
- How I found my center as a vocation minister
- Five steps to a smooth transition out of vocation ministry
- Renew the glory of your vocation by clinging to the hand of God
- Nine ways to thrive as a vocation minister
- Feed your Spirit: What are you really doing?
- Vocation ministry
- Feed your spirit
- Vocation Promotion
- Houses of Discernment
- Parishes
- Program Outlines
- What are the best practices for “Come and See” events?
- Samuel Group: a year-long discernment program
- Vocation exhibits at large events: What happens? Is it worthwhile?
- Effective vocation programs with a mentoring dimension
- Sister, you go girl: a cool way to present religious life to young people
- Volleyball as a vocation tool
- Seeking a new dawn together: organizing a vocation symposium
- A successful vocations program I discovered by accident
- Programs that work: Pilgrimage Tour, Women’s Retreat
- Outline of a successful vocation retreat for Hispanic young adults
- A workshop to energize the community and form bonds with young adults
- Vocation visioning weekend
- An international conference to encourage vocations
- Get membership involved with a Vocation Summit
- Helping college students create their own discernment models
- How we organized a Day of Discussion for leadership and vocation directors
- Justice retreat provides discernment perspective
- How Duchesne House leads students to reflection
- The six best practices for vocation ministry today
- Examples of best practices
- Turning point: building consensus to make membership a priority
- Pilgrimage as a way to build vocation culture
- How one community is using the NRVC-CARA study to move forward
- Carmelite Sisters Action Plan for Vocation Ministry
- Strategies to address the lifestyle gap, help newcomers fit in
- My week with the sisters
- We’re moving forward
- Summer retreat kicks off vocation year
- Role of Membership and Religious Leadership
- Process for preparing a community to welcome and mentor new members
- Get membership involved with a Vocation Summit
- Involve your whole community
- Turning point: building consensus to make membership a priority
- Membership makes a difference in attracting new members
- What vocation ministers want from leadership
- Vocation ministry thrives with clear expectations, real authority
- What I expect from a vocation minister
- The way forward for leaders and vocation ministers
- One model for vocation ministry
- How the New Orleans Jesuits conduct vocation ministry
- The selection, care and feeding of vocation ministers
- Lay vocation ministers speak out
- How we organized a Day of Discussion for leadership and vocation directors
- Leadership focus makes the difference for vocations
- My expections of vocation ministers
- Service Immersion Experiences
- Assessment and Application Process
- Membership Benefits & Fees
- Member Registration
- Member Directory
- Vocation Director's Manual
