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2025 Talk it up Tuesdays NRVC Member meet-up "Talk it Up Tuesdays," are back in January 2025!
--- Fall & winter events
--- Spring & summer events
Heartland Member Area Gathering January 22, 2025 via Zoom
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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
January 25-28, 2025, Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, Washington DC Feb. 14-16, 2025, Dallas Catholic Youth Conference February 20-23, 2025, LA Religious Education Congress March 18-20, 2025 Vocations
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General member area information Member Directory and interactive map Delaware Valley Next gathering: February 12, 2025 at 10AM via Zoom and June 20, 2025 at Mount Nazareth, Philadelphia Minutes
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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.
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Brother Brian began serving in 2020 and chaired the Finance Advisory Committee.
[ Sister Deborah M. Borneman SS.C.M., Director of Mission Integration ]
Four tips toward a better newsletter Quick ideas to put oomph in your newsletter An excellent newsletter will reflect well on your community.
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appear in the Winter 2025 edition of HORIZON and eventually on YouTube.
--- HORIZON No. 4 Fall 2024--Vocation discernment
Annual membership follows the calendar year, January through December.
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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.
[ Sister Deborah M. Borneman SS.C.M., Director of Mission Integration ]
In 2025, two presentations will also be available on video. Follow this newsletter or the NRVC news column for updates. Evaluation Evaluations are still being accepted.
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
Member Area gatherings Southwest Member Area, January 15, 2025, via Zoom Do you know what's happening in your Member Area?
Religious Brothers Day May 1, 2025 Resources to celebrate...
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General member area information Member Directory and interactive map Delaware Valley Next gathering: June 22, 2024, Huntingdon Valley, PA Minutes from January 23, 2023, March 2, 2023, June 5, 2023
GHR Foundation awards grant to NRVC In January the NRVC was awarded a grant by the GHR Foundation to enhance the use of data collected in its 2020 study and to use the study’s information to articulate
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
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
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.
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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In addition many groups now use short films on websites, in e-newsletters, etc.
--- 2018 HORIZON No. 1 Winter -- Talking with young people
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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
The series began in September 2021 and will include five more sessions.
--- 2021 HORIZON No. 4 Fall--What draws people to religious life?
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A formal come-and-see-experience, "A Monastic Observance," is scheduled each year from December 26-January 1.
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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
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
After I made my perpetual profession in August 2015 I became the vocation director.
--- November 2016 newsletter
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In a secular age, some young Americans still choose religious life, Religion News Service, written by Elizabeth Evans, January 2, 2024.
Fifty-five people took part in a January Life Awareness Retreat hosted by the Archdiocese of San Antonio, with assistance from many religious communities.
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• 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
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
The administrative support includes handling correspondence, maintaining financial and other records, processing payments and receipts, coordinating registrations, and updating the website and e-newsletter
National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 2-8, 2025 Promote vocations to ordained ministry and consecrated life through prayer, invitation, and education.
Save the date for a January 13 evening webinar on collaboration in vocation ministry!
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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
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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?
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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
year=2023 Toot your own horn VISION is your resource, NRVC Members! And it is award-winning year after year.
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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.
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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
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Grant Application Window to Open in January 2024 A Blessed Advent Season to All.
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Reprinted with permission from The Costco Connection January 2005
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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
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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
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
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When people see your website, ad, or e-newsletter, they should immediately recognize it is from your congregation. Another important resource to tap is the members of your community.
--- 2016 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Communications | Volunteers
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--- Strategic Planning for Vocation Culture
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2025 Workshop Information Registration will open in February General Information This year the NRVC is offering three workshops on-site at the Summer Institute in Leavenworth, KS, and four workshops virtually
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Sister Kim Xuan Nguyen C.C.V.I. is a chiropractor. But now, instead of, "Where does it hurt?" she may be more likely to ask, “What brings you joy?” She is the vocation minister for the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston. She’s also the Southwest Area Coordinator of the NRVC. Read more...
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