Behavioral Assessment 2       October 5-6, 2021 Behavioral Assessment 1       October 8-10, 2021 Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors       October 12-16, 2021  Navigating Uncertainty with

--- 2021 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Communal and personal wellness

Digital edition and pdf Add HORIZON to your devices   View or download a pdf of the 2021 Winter HORIZON edition. Readers, please limit your sharing of material to 50 distributions or less.

--- 2021 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Focus on hope, Convocation edition

Digital edition and pdf     View or download a pdf of the 2021 Summer HORIZON edition. Readers, please limit your sharing of material to 50 distributions or less.

--- 2021 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Communal and personal wellness

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--- 2021 HORIZON No. 4 Fall--What draws people to religious life?

Updates Resources help break down study’s meaning for individual communities Religious communities now have several resources to help them identify and absorb the most important messages from the 2020

--- 2020 HORIZON No. 4 Fall — Assessment

HORIZON awards Best Essay - Religious Order Magazines First Place HORIZON, Sister Addie Lorraine Walker, S.S.N.D.

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--- 2021 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Race, culture, and new members

IN MAY 2021 HORIZON asked the members of the National Religious Vocation Conference to answer one question: What do you wish your community’s membership understood about vocation ministry?

--- 2021 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Communal and personal wellness
--- Vocation ministry
--- Community life

[ HORIZON readers ]  

• Behavioral Assessment II, Oct. 20-21, 2017, led by Father Raymond P.

--- 2017 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Vocation ministry with vitality

The Synod began in 2021 and is still continuing beyond 2024. Learn more about the Synod by using these helpful links. 

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In addition, I have served since 2021 as co-coordinator of NRVC’s New England Member Area with Sister June Fitzgerald, O.P.  How long have you been involved in vocation ministry? Five years.

--- I am NRVC!

The 2020 study showed that most religious institutes promote vocations, accept new members, and have serious discerners.

--- 2023 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Synodality and collaboration
--- Leadership of religious communities
--- Vocation ministry

They have a 100 percent acceptance rate into college for their seniors; in 2022 over $3 million dollars of scholarships were awarded to 100 graduating students. It’s tremendous.

--- 2022 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Accompaniment | Vocation Culture
--- African American and Asian candidates
--- Multicultural issues

[ HORIZON interviews Father Joseph Brown, S.J. ]  

Hilton Foundation grant, 2023-2025 Grappling with interculturality continues to emerge as a need among our members.  Thanks to a generous three-year grant from the Conrad N.

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It is as if there was a collective call to new horizons in the audience. To give credit where due, the phrase originated with Stuart Kaufmann who used it to describe biological evolution.

--- 2021 HORIZON No. 4 Fall--What draws people to religious life?
--- Spiritual growth
--- Hope

[ Sister Margo Ritchie C.S.J. ]  

His dissertation for a 2017 Ph.D. in organizational development looked at clerical sexual abuse and organizational socialization Related reading Fall 2018 edition of HORIZON, “Ministry Amid the Storm

--- 2020 HORIZON No. 4 Fall — Assessment
--- Sex abuse
--- Community life

[ HORIZON interviews Father John Tourangeau O. Praem. ]  

, while all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing; and she responded to them: Sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously triumphant; horse and chariot he has cast into the sea” (Exod. 15:20-21

--- HORIZON No. 2 Spring 2025--New takes on old traditions
--- Scripture and vocation / Vocation ministry

[ Sister Elizabeth Davis R.S.M. ]  

In the last three recorded years, 2019 to 2021, over 1,000 people entered initial formation in U.S. religious institutes. The significance of those new members cannot be underestimated.

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--- Divisions in church and religious communities
--- 2023 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Synodality and collaboration
--- Membership
--- Ecclesial diversity
--- Church documents
--- Theology of vocation
--- Vocation ministry
--- Future of religious life

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

But when the Vatican issued a document in 2021 about clergy “not blessing sin,” she stopped her discernment with my community and looked to another Christian church.

--- 2022 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Accompaniment | Vocation Culture
--- Culture of vocations
--- Vocation ministry

[ Sister Susan Kidd C.N.D. ]  

With that in mind, HORIZON begins a series of reflections on the evangelical counsels. We invite readers to give their feedback to keep the conversation going.

--- 2017 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Forward in faith
--- Vow of poverty
--- Vow of poverty

Related reading Prophetic Witnesses to Joy: A Theology of the Vowed Life, by Sister Juliet Mousseau, Liturgical Press, 2021.

--- HORIZON No. 2 Spring 2025--New takes on old traditions
--- Vow of poverty
--- Vow of obedience
--- Chastity
--- Theology of vocation

[ Sister Juliet Mousseau R.S.C.J. ]  

Like the readers of HORIZON, those of us who staff the vocation office greatly understand the need for such collaboration. The archdiocese is not in competition with religious communities.

--- 2023 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Synodality and collaboration
--- Ecclesial diversity
--- Vocation ministry

And, it’s our horizon.

--- 2024 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Every member plays a part
--- Theological reflection on vocation ministry
--- Leadership of religious communities
--- Vocation ministry

[ Sister Julie Vieira I.H.M. ]  

Let us take a long view at what is happening in our country in 2024 to see the misuse of power.

--- HORIZON No. 1 Winter 2025--Walking humbly together
--- Multicultural issues

[ Sister Patricia Chappell SNDdeN ]  

A version of this article appeared in HORIZON 2018, No.  3, Summer.

--- HORIZON No. 4 Fall 2024--Vocation discernment
--- Discernment

[ Father Timothy Gallagher O.M.V. ]  

In 2021 six million children in the country—almost all born in the U.S.—lived with an unauthorized parent.

--- 2024 HORIZON No. 2 Spring--Latino cultural patterns
--- Hispanics

[ Hosffman Ospino ]  

The 2001 message, for instance, says “every life is a vocation.”

--- 2012 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Theology of vocation
--- Theology of Vocation
--- Theology of vocation

[ Fr. Brendan Leahy ]  

Paul’s path toward reconciliation This article was the second of two keynote presentations delivered at the November 2012 convocation of the National Religious Vocation Conference held in Plano, TX.

--- Reconciliation
--- 2013 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Vocation ministers and reconciliation
--- Reconciliation

[ Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes F.S.P. ]  

PDF of 2001 HORIZON No. 4 -- Vocation communications Click here to download the 2001 Horizon No. 4 Summer edition in pdf form. Theme:  Vocation communications.

--- 2001 HORIZON No. 4 -- Vocation communications

PDF of 2001 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue Click here to download the 2001 Horizon No. 1 Fall edition in pdf form. Theme: Variety issue.

--- 2001 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue

PDF of 2011 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Convocation 2010: Casting the net, Vocation ministry in a global church and world Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Winter issue.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Convocation 2010: Casting the net

PDF of 2011 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Charism and vocation ministry Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Fall issue. Theme:  Charism and vocation ministry.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Charism and vocation ministry

PDF of 2011 HORIZON No. 3 -- Vocation ministry at the crossroads Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Summer issue. Theme: Vocation ministry at the crossroads.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Vocation ministry at the crossroads

PDF of 2001 HORIZON No. 2 Winter -- Convocation Click here to download the 2001 Horizon No. 2 Winter edition in pdf form. Theme: Convocation 2000,  Building bridges to young adults.  

--- 2001 HORIZON No. 2 -- Convocation 2000, Building bridges to young adults

PDF of 2001 HORIZON No. 3 -- Admissions Click here to download the 2001 Horizon No. Spring edition in pdf form. Theme: admissions.

--- 2001 HORIZON No. 3 -- Admissions

PDF of 2011 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Encouraging quality discernment Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Spring issue. Theme: Encouraging quality discernment  

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Encouraging quality discernment

HORIZON Index 2012 Volume 37, Number 1 | Winter 2012 Theology of vocation Updates: Snapshot of vocation ministry, p. 4 Vocation as a lifelong, personal adventure for every Christian, by Archbishop

--- 2013 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Vocation ministers and reconciliation

2018 NRVC Summer Institute July 10-21, 2018   Our annual Summer Institute will offer five workshops at the downtown campus of DePaul University, July 10-21, 2018.

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Summer Institute offers five workshops In Chicago July 10-21 Participants in the 2016 Summer Institute take an outdoor break.

--- February 2018 newsletter

Charlotte McCorquodale will lead this research in two phases beginning November 2021 and concluding February 2023. This study will include fifty focus groups in 35-40 dioceses throughout the country.

--- 2021 Posts

[ Sister Deborah M. Borneman SS.C.M., Director of Mission Integration ]  

Index of 2000-2001 HORIZON Variety Issue — Fall 2000, Volume 26, Number 1 “Developing a culture of vocations,” by Bishop Robert J.

--- 2001 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue

2018 NRVC Summer Institute July 10-21, 2018   Our annual Summer Institute will offer five workshops at the downtown campus of DePaul University, July 10-21, 2018.

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The NRVC Fall Institute will take place in Leavenworth, Kansas, October 10-21, and anyone still seeking to register is welcome. Click below for details and registration. 

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2021 NCYC November 18-20, 2021 The National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) is a biennial three-day experience to encounter Christ, experience Church, and be empowered for discipleship, sponsored

--- NCYC - National Catholic Youth Conference
--- Fall & winter events

Editor's Note Encouraging quality discernment: Season of hope Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Spring issue.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Encouraging quality discernment

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

Editor´s Note Charism and vocation ministry: A jambalaya of ideas and information   Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Fall issue.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Charism and vocation ministry

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

Editor’s Note Casting the net: Finding joy as we cast the net in new ways Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Winter issue.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Convocation 2010: Casting the net

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

PDF of 2000 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue Click here to download the 2001 (2000) Horizon No. 1 Fall edition in pdf form. 

--- 2000 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue

Editor´s Note Vocation ministry at the crossroads: Have Merton, will travel Click here to download the 2011 HORIZON Summer issue.

--- 2011 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Vocation ministry at the crossroads

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

World Day for Consecrated Life, February 2 Celebrated in parishes Feb. 3-4, 2024 About World Day for Consecrated Life In 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II instituted a day for women and men in consecrated

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