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2025: A Year to Birth Something New

2025: A Year to Birth Something New Over the Thanksgiving break, I visited a friend who had recently given birth to a baby girl, whom she and her husband named Juliet.

--- 2024 Posts

[ Sr. Dina Bato S.P., Director of Membership ]  

2025 Talk it up Tuesdays

2025 Talk it up Tuesdays NRVC Member meet-up "Talk it Up Tuesdays," are back in January 2025!

--- Fall & winter events
--- Spring & summer events

Collaborator News and Events

April 22-24, 2025 NCEA Conference, Orlando, FL April 25, 2025, Saint Louis University Vocation Fair, contact susanne.chawszczewski@slu.edu  April 30-May 2, 2025 Catholic Volunteer Network Conference,

--- Collaborator Information

Collaborator News and Events

March 18-20, 2025 Vocations Jamboree, Bismarck, ND April 22-24, 2025 NCEA Conference, Orlando, FL April 25, 2025, Saint Louis University Vocation Fair, contact susanne.chawszczewski@slu.edu  April 30

--- Collaborator Information

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Monthly NRVC newsletter

Monthly NRVC newsletter Focus on Vocation Ministry Monthly newsletters November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017

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Member Area news

: November 11: 9 AM ET and  January 20 - 10 AM ET Minutes from August 27, 2025 Minutes from April 15, 2025 and February 12, 2025 Minutes from October 3, 2024 and December 10, 2024 Minutes from January

--- Member Area News

Collaborator News and Events

, July 2024.

--- Collaborator Information

Collaborator News and Events

Feb. 14-16, 2025, Dallas Catholic Youth Conference February 20-23, 2025, LA Religious Education Congress March 18-20, 2025 Vocations Jamboree, Bismarck, ND April 22-24, 2025 NCEA Conference, Orlando

--- Collaborator Information

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National Board Update

Brother Brian began serving in 2020 and chaired the Finance Advisory Committee.

--- 2025 Posts

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

NRVC in the news

In a secular age, some young Americans still choose religious life, Religion News Service, written by Elizabeth Evans,  January 2, 2024.

--- Media/press

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Updates

appear in the Winter 2025 edition of HORIZON and eventually on YouTube.

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

Four tips toward a better newsletter

Four tips toward a better newsletter Quick ideas to put oomph in your newsletter An excellent newsletter will reflect well on your community.

--- May 2014 newsletter

Collaborator News and Events

September 4, 2025, 8:00 pm ET, Roundtable on the Vietnamese Catholic Migrant Experience, via Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89202435594 (Password: 000629) September 4-7, 2025 National Black Catholic

--- Collaborator Information

Collaborator News and Events

April 22-24, 2025 NCEA Conference, Orlando, FL April 25, 2025, Saint Louis University Vocation Fair, contact susanne.chawszczewski@slu.edu  April 30-May 2, 2025 Catholic Volunteer Network Conference,

--- Collaborator Information

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TIUT Reminders, and Lights! Camera! Action!

There are four sessions left of our 2025 Talk it Up Tuesdays series. These gatherings allow participants to learn together, encourage each other, and share ideas.

--- 2025 Posts

[ Sr. Dina Bato S.P., Director of Membership ]  

Where to find NRVC publications online and how to submit article ideas

find NRVC publications online and how to submit article ideas Digital edition/online archives/submissions NRVC news Archives While news is now posted on the homepage, archived editions of the former newsletter

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Will you consider being a Board Member?

The three-year term begins in the Fall of 2025. Each NRVC member may submit one recommendation for the Board. At its spring meeting, the National Board selects new members from the recommendations.

--- 2024 Posts

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

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Thank you, Carol!

The NRVC marks the end of an era at the end of July 2025. As she approaches retirement, we wish to congratulate and thank Carol Schuck Scheiber for her many years of dedicated service to the NRVC.

--- 2025 Posts

[ Sr. Dina Bato S.P., Director of Membership ]  

Membership Benefits & Fees

Publications: an annual subscription to the highly respected HORIZON quarterly journal, the only English-language professional vocation journal in the Church; Focus on Vocation Ministry, an online monthly newsletter

--- Membership Services, Benefits & Fees

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Grant Application Window to Open in January 2024

Grant Application Window to Open in January 2024 A Blessed Advent Season to All.

--- 2023 Posts

[ Phil Loftus ]  

Updates

The series began in September 2021 and will include five more sessions.

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

Sister Carolyn Martin, L.S.P.

For the NRVC, I've been a Talk it up Tuesday presenter, and I'll be on the board starting in September 2025.

--- I am NRVC!

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

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.

--- Mission & benefactors

HORIZON and VISION win 12 awards

honored by the Catholic Press Association and Associated Church Press in several editorial categories, including best special interest magazine, regular column, reporting on vocations, guest commentary, e-newsletter

--- July 2018 newsletter

News of our collaborators

Fifty-five people took part in a January Life Awareness Retreat hosted by the Archdiocese of San Antonio, with assistance from many religious communities.

--- February 2018 newsletter

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Talking with video

In addition many groups now use short films on websites, in e-newsletters, etc.

--- 2018 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Talking with young people
--- Popular Media
--- Communications

[ Carol Schuck Scheiber ]  

NRVC collaborators show support for 2020 study

NRVC collaborators show support for 2020 study Representatives gathered at a convening in Buffalo prior to the start of the NRVC Convocation Representatives of nine national organizations recently gave

--- 2020 Study on Recent Vocations Archives

Spes non confundit: Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025

Spes non confundit: Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025 SPES NON CONFUNDIT BULL OF INDICTION OF THE ORDINARY JUBILEE OF THE YEAR 2025 FRANCIS BISHOP OF ROME SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS

--- Jubilee Year 2025

Sister Mary Yun, O.P.

After I made my perpetual profession in August 2015 I became the vocation director.

--- November 2016 newsletter
--- I am NRVC!

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Discernment approaches

A formal come-and-see-experience, "A Monastic Observance," is scheduled each year from December 26-January 1.

--- Discernment

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How it all began

The first NRVC newsletter, long before the days of e-newsletters. Over time it became clear that only one religious vocation conference was needed.

--- History of Religious Life
--- History of religious life, NRVC
--- 2013 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- 25 years in the vineyard of the Lord

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Updates

Updates Pictured here are nine of the 52 people who attended an ethics workshop that NRVC offered online during its 2020 Summer Institute.

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

Brother Larry Schatz, F.S.C.

The 2022 convocation in Spokane was delightful, letting me finally meet my peers in person, rather than on a screen. What ideas have you used lately that you have been excited about?

--- I am NRVC!

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Updates

• Understanding, Assessing, and Fostering Psycho-Sexual Integration, July 20-23, 2020, Presented by Sister Lynn M. Levo, C.S.J., Ph.D.

--- 2020 HORIZON No. 1 Winter — Accompaniment

Terms of NRVC membership and events

Membership Payment/Dues All memberships are annual beginning January 1 and terminating December 31, regardless of when the membership is paid. 

--- Terms & Conditions

Ministry openings

The administrative support includes handling correspondence, maintaining financial and other records, processing payments and receipts, coordinating registrations, and updating the website and e-newsletter

--- February 2016 newsletter

National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 2-8, 2025

National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 2-8, 2025 Promote vocations to ordained ministry and consecrated life through prayer, invitation, and education.

--- Fall & winter events

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What are the best practices for “Come and See” events?

NRVC-CARA study of new members  Involving others in the community Most vocation directors communicated news of an upcoming discernment event by e-mail blasts to members, information in the community’s newsletter

--- Program Outlines
--- 2011 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Charism and vocation ministry
--- Program outlines

[ Joel Schorn ]  

Membership Benefits & Fees

Publications: an annual subscription to the highly respected HORIZON quarterly journal, the only English-language professional vocation journal in the Church; Focus on Vocation Ministry, an online monthly newsletter

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Updates

Vocation ministers and other religious around the world have been able to share faith and hope with young people and discerners using electronic platforms such as blogs, Facebook, video-sharing, e-mails, e-newsletters

--- 2020 HORIZON No. 2 Spring — New members have abundant hope

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What vocation education for adults might look like if we got serious about it

The listening sessions from January 1998 until the NRVC convocation in September 1998 produced reams of information which is discussed in other articles in this edition of HORIZON.

--- 1999 HORIZON No. 2 -- Parent nurturing of vocations

[ Jane Mary Lorbiecki S.S.N.D. ]  

For Vocation Directors: How VISION Vocation Guide works for you

year=2023   Toot your own horn VISION is your resource, NRVC Members! And it is award-winning year after year.

--- VISION Vocation Guide

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Updates

honored by the Catholic Press Association and Associated Church Press in several editorial categories, including best special interest magazine, regular column, reporting on vocations, guest commentary, e-newsletter

--- 2018 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Youth, faith, vocation discernment

Today's Catholic Sisters

Today's Catholic Sisters Los Angeles event on January 23 Don't miss your chance to learn about the newest generation of Catholic sisters and why we need them now more than ever at one more upcoming gathering

--- January 2016 newsletter

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Updates

Levo, CSJ, Ph.D.   2015 to be “Year of Consecrated Life” Pope Francis announced that 2015 will be a Year of Consecrated Life. at a 2013 meeting with the Union of Superiors General

--- 2014 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Vocation to action & contemplation

2025 NCYC

2025 NCYC November 20-22, 2025 The NRVC is promoting vocations at NCYC!

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

NRVC Staff

Sister Dina joined the NRVC team in August 2022. As a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary of the Woods, Indiana, she made her perpetual profession in 2017.

--- Board & staff

2023 Workshop Information

2023 Workshop Information 2024 dates will be published in January General Information This year the NRVC is offering three workshops on-site at the Summer Institute in Leavenworth, KS, and three workshops

--- Fall & winter events

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Own Not, Copy Not: Deciphering Copyright Law in the Digital Age

Reprinted with permission from The Costco Connection January 2005

--- Office Management

[ Peter J. Malcolm ]  

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One model for vocation ministry

Monthly updates go out through our province newsletter telling members where we stand for the month and year-to-date. Sometimes a push is needed in November and December to reach this goal.

--- Leadership of religious communities
--- 2007 HORIZON No. 4 -- Leadership and vocation ministers working together
--- Role of Membership and Religious Leadership

[ Jim Kent, O.F.M., Conv. ]