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2015 HORIZON No. 4 Fall digital edition and pdf -- Family and vocations Click here to download a pdf of 2015 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Family and vocations Note to phone and tablet users: The digital
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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.
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2016 HORIZON No. 4 Fall digital edition and pdf -- Communications | Volunteers Readers, please limit any article or edition sharing to 50 distributions or less.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Communications | Volunteers
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HORIZON Spring 1998, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Not available in electronic archives.) 10 signs of readiness for community life 1.
--- 2024 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Every member plays a part
--- Membership
--- Assessment
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Register now for fall workshops The National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) offers four workshops at its Fall Institute, to take place at the Marillac Center in Leavenworth, Kansas, October 8-23
--- 2019 HORIZON No. 3 Summer — Refining ourselves & our ministry
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Alumni organizations or groups such as Toastmasters fall under this heading. In this type of community, life together has a low priority in the hierarchy of what is important.
--- 2021 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Communal and personal wellness
--- Community life
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While we do not find God’s call to Miriam described in Exodus or Numbers, we read in Micah 6:4, “I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I ransomed you; And I sent before you
--- HORIZON No. 2 Spring 2025--New takes on old traditions
--- Scripture and vocation / Vocation ministry
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No longer opening ministries, communities are divesting and entrusting ministries to capable, dedicated lay persons.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Leadership makes the difference
--- Future of religious life
--- Future of Religious Life
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has turned to dust—then “you will fall into the center of yourself” and “will look for some core to sustain you,” Quindlen writes.
--- Vocation ministry
--- 2017 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Vocation ministry with vitality
--- Self care for vocation ministers
--- Self-care for Vocation Ministers
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(See “How universities can cultivate vocations,” by Father Vincent O’Malley, HORIZON Winter 2016 No. 2.)
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Leadership makes the difference
--- Leadership of religious communities
--- Role of Membership and Religious Leadership
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Whether these choices are willfully made or simply accepted, either consciously or unconsciously, no one is excluded from making these choices.
--- Church documents
--- 2017 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Forward in faith
--- Theology of vocation
--- Priesthood, Popes and Papal Messages
[ Vatican document on vocational discernment adapted by Carol Schuck Scheiber ]
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Cultivate community Author and pastor Rick Warren has noted that most people fall into three categories: caretakers, undertakers, and risk takers.
--- 2024 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Ministering with balance
--- Self care for vocation ministers
--- Vocation ministry
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Help me, who am alone and have no help but you” (Esther 4:14). Amazingly, even in the midst of our despair, we don’t give up doing what we do.
--- 2022 HORIZON No. 4 Fall--Staying grounded
--- Self care for vocation ministers
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I had no idea what it would mean when I said “yes” to this invitation in 1992. Nor did I ever imagine that I would serve in this position for 10 years.
--- Strategic planning / Structuring vocation ministry
--- 2002 HORIZON No. 1 -- Ten years at the helm / Discernment
--- Strategic Planning for Vocation Culture
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Many orders either overcompensate or never try at all to use contemporary technology to its full advantage.
--- 2018 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Emotional health | Vow of obedience
--- Popular Media
--- Communications
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He said that the law “is in no way intended as a substitute for faith, grace, charism, and especially charity in the life of the Church and of the faithful.”1 Rather it is an instrument which lays down
--- Canon law
--- Ethics
--- Health Issues
--- Canon Law
--- Health issues
--- Ethics in Vocation Ministry
--- 2006 HORIZON No. 2 -- Health issues in prospective members
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Religious from other parts of the world and with different political horizons and ecclesial interests will begin to unsettle the compromises and consensus that many provinces have arrived at after much
--- Immigration and International Issues
--- International approaches to vocation ministry
--- 2005 HORIZON No. 1 -- Vocation realities around the world
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She continues, “This is not going backward, this is carving out time and space in a really frantic world, which does not provide many structures to support and sustain contemplation.”
--- Theological reflection—encouraging it with young adults
--- Service Immersion Experiences
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Assessing candidates
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(See the Fall 2017 HORIZON for an article based on this workshop.)
--- 2019 HORIZON No. 3 Summer — Refining ourselves & our ministry
--- Community life
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Church members, when practicing tefillah, can then join in with Samuel and recite his wholehearted, humble response to God: “Here I am” (1 Samuel 3:4), thereby casting aside any temptations for clericalism
--- 2019 HORIZON No. 4 Fall — Healthy church, healthy vocations
--- Sex abuse
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The gap, therefore, between present members (the seniors) and the newcomers is not merely chronological. Recent issues of HORIZON have carried articles touching on various aspects of this topic.
--- 1999 HORIZON No. 3 -- How Gen X fits into religious life
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The options are many but most techniques fall within two fundamental categories—an informational approach or a promotional approach.
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Of course, not all should or will enter a religious congregation, but many have the capacity, skills and interest to at least consider religious life as a viable option.
--- Service Immersion Experiences
--- Volunteers, outreach to them
--- Outreach
--- 2000 HORIZON No. 4 -- Mentoring and programs for youth and young adults
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Religious communities need to honor this modern reality, and many do, but they may be falling short when it comes to communicating well with prospective members.
--- 2024 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Ministering with balance
--- Communications
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What do they want? How might they perceive this message? We also asked: Who is missing from our listing of audiences? Who is falling through the cracks of our communication efforts?
--- Advertising & Media
--- Communications
--- 2001 HORIZON No. 4 -- Vocation communications
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“Is there a vocation plan”? “What is the vocation office doing?” Some of us let ourselves off the hook by declaring we are not the only ones. No one is getting vocations. Our society is too secular.
--- 2021 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Race, culture, and new members
--- Program outlines
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There is no bright light from heaven. No image of the Lord. But the call is still there. Caravaggio understands the call of St. Paul as something that is mostly interior.
--- 2017 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Called to discipleship
--- Discernment
--- Discernment
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If not, the body has ways of making us listen! 4. Beware of judging.
--- Transitions
--- 2018 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Talking with young people
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Together we are called to say “no” to every attempt to impose uniformity and “yes” to a diversity accepted and reconciled.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Assessing candidates
--- Assessment
--- Multicultural issues
--- Intercultural Wealth & Multicultural Awareness
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Rather it is falling precipitously and disproportionately.4 To meet emerging pastoral challenges, Catholic communities are looking overseas for relief for their new-member shortage.
--- 2008 HORIZON No. 4 -- Preparing discerners for formation
--- Formation
--- Formation Articles
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And why does it fall on a different date each year?
--- African American and Asian candidates
--- 2020 HORIZON No. 3 Summer — Inviting diversity
--- Multicultural issues
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A surprise is on the horizon! At the same time sometimes I know more about what is going on in the initial stages of religious life than I care to.
--- Supervision
--- 2017 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Vocation ministry with vitality
--- Mentoring and Supervision
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Father Jerome Neyrey, S.J. in the Spring 2006 HORIZON, pointed out that in the New Testament individuals who are called describe their commission in a variety of ways: as being “sent” (Matt. 10:5; Mark
--- 2015 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Family and vocations
--- Scripture
--- Scripture and vocation / Vocation ministry
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“Is there a vocation plan”? “What is the vocation office doing?” Some of us let ourselves off the hook by declaring we are not the only ones. No one is getting vocations. Our society is too secular.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Leadership makes the difference
--- Leadership of religious communities
--- Role of Membership and Religious Leadership
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Saying no to a candidate ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT aspects of my work as a vocation director is speaking a hard word to women who are calling themselves to community.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Assessing candidates
--- Admissions Process and Policies
--- Assessment
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She doesn’t say, “I checked the refrigerator and they don’t have any yogurt in there. There aren’t any carrot sticks, no alfalfa sprouts, no low-carb foods.” No, she says they have no wine.
--- 2007 HORIZON No. 2 -- Convocation 2006: Committed
--- Theology of vocation
--- Scripture and vocation / Vocation ministry
--- Theology of Vocation
--- Scripture
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It took a revelation from God and a “good hard fall from a horse(!)”
--- Reconciliation
--- 2013 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Vocation ministers and reconciliation
--- Reconciliation
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Questions to be addressed include how to ease the transition for those in vocation discernment with our communities and how to ensure that contacts don’t fall through the cracks during such times.
--- Transitions
--- Self-care for Vocation Ministers
--- Self care for vocation ministers
--- 2010 HORIZON No. 5 -- Young members reflect on study | Making vocation transitions work
--- Strategic planning / Structuring vocation ministry
--- Strategic Planning for Vocation Culture
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He fell on his head and landed on the other side of a fence. While the actor’s helmet prevented brain damage, the impact of the fall broke Reeve’s first and second vertebrae.
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There can be no confusion on that level.
--- Emerging communities & other vocations
--- Emerging Communities & Secular Institutes
--- 2012 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Value of religious life, Nine ways to thrive
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characteristic of Catholic undergraduate and graduate students.1 Those with an eclipsed spirituality show little or no interest in religious or spiritual matters.
--- 2007 HORIZON No. 3 -- Trends and technology
--- Emerging Adults
--- Young adults
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Our ministry is not a numbers game. To have no one is better than having the wrong someone.
--- Strategic Planning for Vocation Culture
--- Newer Members
--- 2001 HORIZON No. 1 -- Variety issue
--- Outreach
--- Role of Membership and Religious Leadership
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Here is what she said: I come to my church fully functioning. I bring myself, my Black self, all that I am, all that I have, all that I hope to become.
--- 2022 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Accompaniment | Vocation Culture
--- African American and Asian candidates
--- Multicultural issues
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HORIZON readers share their best vocation innovations. Volunteers repaint a home during a service trip sponsored by the IHM Sisters of Scranton, PA.
--- 2013 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- 25 years in the vineyard of the Lord
--- Program outlines
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One interviewee summed up the feelings of others with this comment: “I think we need to define a little bit more fully the genuine celibate life, not only NOT to have sex, but how to live a whole life
--- 2020 HORIZON No. 4 Fall — Assessment
--- Sex abuse
--- Community life
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Healthy sexuality involves a growing capacity to develop friendships at a variety of levels. This implies that no one or two people will be able to meet all of our emotional or relational needs.
--- Sexuality
--- 2013 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Inviting young people
--- Sexuality & Sexual Misconduct
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Throughout this article, it is important to remember that people come in great variety; no one can be characterized by a single label.
--- Psychological health
--- 2005 HORIZON No. 3 -- Psychological health in candidates
--- Psychological Assessment and Mental Health
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