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Collaborator News and Events

June 4-6, 2024, CCMA Called 24 Conference June 18-21, 2024, Catholic Media Association Conference, Atlanta, GA July 3-7, 2024, 85th Annual Tekakwitha Conference, Raleigh, NC National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

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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

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Member area news

General member area information Member Directory and interactive map Delaware Valley Next meeting: Spring TBA Minutes from January 23, 2023, March 2, 2023, June 5, 2023, August 29, 2023 Minutes from

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2024 Workshop Information

2024 Workshop Information Plan now to attend, registration opens in February General Information In 2024, the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) will offer five on-site Summer Intitute workshops

--- Spring & summer events

Collaborator News and Events

This list is updated periodically and if you would like to have something added, please email mail@nrvc.net Events April 18-19, 2024 “Moving Along the Arc: Women and Men Religious as Agents of Reconciliation

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2024 Workshop Information

2024 Workshop Information Registrations are near capacity General Information In 2024, the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) will offer five on-site Summer Institute workshops at the Marillac

--- Spring & summer events

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Updates

Updates Our Fall 2023 workshops will take place online. Photo by headway, Unsplash.

--- 2023 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Synodality and collaboration

Collaborator News and Events

Denver June 2-5, 2025 Catholic Campus Ministry Association Called Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN June 22-28, 205 Instituto Fe y Vida National Catholic Leadership Program, Lewis University

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Collaborator News and Events

-May 2, 2025 Catholic Volunteer Network Conference, Denver June 2-5, 2025 Catholic Campus Ministry Association Called Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN June 22-28, 205 Instituto Fe y Vida National

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Collaborator News and Events

Denver June 2-5, 2025 Catholic Campus Ministry Association Called Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN June 22-28, 205 Instituto Fe y Vida National Catholic Leadership Program, Lewis University

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Bad News ... and Good News!

Our Director of Database Administration, Marge Argyelan, is planning to retire June 30, 2024. We will MISS Marge! That’s the bad news.

--- 2023 Posts

[ Maureen Cetera, Director of Finance and Operations ]  

2024 Health & Wellness in Candidate Assessment Workshop

2024 Health & Wellness in Candidate Assessment Workshop July 23-24, 2024   Workshop registration is now closed.

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2024 Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors

2024 Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors July 10-14, 2024 Registration is at capacity for this workshop.

--- Spring & summer events

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

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2024 Ethical Issues in Vocation and Formation Ministry Workshop

2024 Ethical Issues in Vocation and Formation Ministry Workshop July 16-17, 2024 This workshop will be offered again in July 2025 Workshop description This workshop is designed to assist vocation directors

--- Spring & summer events

2024 Being Human and Sexual: An Evolving Understanding Workshop

2024 Being Human and Sexual: An Evolving Understanding Workshop July 26-29, 2024 Registration for this workshop is now open in our online store Workshop description This workshop provides vocation

--- Spring & summer events

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Updates

Updates Minneapolis, pictured here, will be the setting for the 2024 convocation of the National Religious Vocation Conference. Photo by Lane Pelovsky, courtesy of Meet Minneapolis.  

--- 2024 HORIZON No. 3 Summer--Every member plays a part

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

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National Eucharistic Congress

National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21, 2024 Volunteers are needed As of June 1, they are still in need of volunteers at the Congress. 

--- Spring & summer events

Vocation ambassadors

Vocation ambassadors June 9-11 One of the many teams that took part in the 2016 Vocation Ambassador Program.

--- June 2017 newsletter

2017 Vocation Ambassadors Program, June 9-12, 2017

2017 Vocation Ambassadors Program, June 9-12, 2017                                          The Vocation Ambassador program begins with a four-day "Share the Sacred" workshop that provides participants

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NRVC Board

NRVC Board 2025 -2026 The NRVC Board 2025 Row 1: Brother Joseph Bach, O.F.M. Conv.; Sister Margarita Hernandez, S.P.; Board Vice Chair Sister Eileen McCann, C.S.J. 

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Welcome, Sister Sharon!

New executive director starts June 1 NRVC staff and members extend a warm welcome to NRVC's new executive director, Sister Sharon Dillon, S.S.J.-T.O.S.F., who begins the job June 1.

--- April 2017 Newsletter

Links to research & reports

: Survey of the Ordinands to the Priesthood The Class of 2024: Survey of the Ordinands to the Priesthood The Class of 2023: Survey of the Ordinands to the Priesthood The Class of 2022: Survey of the

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Convocation: Walking humbly together

Convocation: Walking humbly together October 31 - November 4, 2024   Join us at Convocation!

--- Fall & winter events

NRVC in the news

Looking back at 2024: 10 noteworthy stories and series at Global Sisters Report, written by Stephanie Yeagle, Global Sisters Report, Jnaury 2, 2025.

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Webinar 6 Call to Religious Life: Newer Entrants' Stories

Webinar 6 Call to Religious Life: Newer Entrants' Stories June 2, 2022 | 7 p.m. Central Primary audience: ALL SUPPORTERS OF MEN & WOMEN IN CONSECRATED LIFE.  All are welcome.

--- 2020 Study on Recent Vocations Archives

NRVC publications earn 9 awards

NRVC publications earn 9 awards The Catholic Media Association presented nine awards to HORIZON vocation ministry journal and VISION Vocation Guide and at its most recent conference, held in June 2025

--- Periodicals overview

"ForMission" program offered by RFC

"ForMission" program offered by RFC For all people involved in formation ministry The Religious Formation Conference offers an intensive, four-week course beginning in June 2014 on all aspects of formation

--- February 2014 newsletter

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Updates

Updates News about religious vocations NRVC condemns racism The 2019-2020 NRVC Board The national reckoning over racial injustice in the United States has been part of the conversation at the National

--- 2020 HORIZON No. 3 Summer — Inviting diversity

CTU offers programs for religious

Formation ministry training, sabbatical program, workshop for newer men religious The Institute of Religious Formation (IRF) at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago is accepting applications for the 2014

--- May 2014 newsletter

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New knowledge about sexual abuse by Catholic clergy

McChesney addressed the National Religious Vocation Conference during its September 2004 Convocation.

--- 2005 HORIZON No. 2 -- Convocation 2004: Fidelity to Jesus, Paradigm of Hope
--- Sexuality & Sexual Misconduct
--- Sex abuse

[ Kathleen L. McChesney ]  

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Summer Institute is July 10-24, 2023 -- Let’s Learn Together in Leavenworth, KS!

Summer Institute is July 10-24, 2023 -- Let’s Learn Together in Leavenworth, KS! The 2023 Summer Institute in Leavenworth, KS, is less than a month away!

--- 2023 Posts

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

NRVC regional meetings

Region 1   May 2 Region 2   March 10, May 5, May 7 Region 3   April 29 Region 4   March 25, May 5-6 Region 5   Met January 15, next meeting September 18 Region 6   May TBA Region 7   April 28 Region 8   June

--- March 2015 newsletter

Convocation: Walking humbly together

Convocation: Walking humbly together October 31 - November 4, 2024   Join us at Convocation!

--- Fall & winter events

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2024 Talk It Up Tuesdays is here - Let’s Connect!

Tuesday, February 27, 2024, Radiating Joy and Cultivating Possibilities in Vocation Ministry, presented by Brother Brian Poulin, f.m.s.

--- 2024 Posts

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

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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 ]  

2018 NRVC Summer Institute

2018  Behavioral Assessment 1, July 16-18, 2018  The Assessment of Family of Origin Issues for Candidates to Religious Life,  July 16-18, 2018 Ethical Issues in Vocation and Formation Ministry, July 20-21

--- 2018 Summer Institute

Is it Generational, Cultural or Family of Origin? Issues in Candidate Assessment

Issues in Candidate Assessment July 26-28, 2021 Please note Summer Institute registration closed on June 30. Inquirers, discerners and candidates come from varied ages, ethnicities, and families.

--- Spring & summer events

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Convocation Pilgrimage

Convocation Pilgrimage November 4, 2024 The pilgrimage is sold out.

--- Fall & winter events

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Updates

Updates NRVC awarded $650,000 grant In June the National Religious Vocation Conference announced that the Conrad N.

--- 2012 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Cultural and family roots and vocation

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What every vocation director should know about Filipino families

In the annual pilgrimage to Our Lady of Antipolo held during the month of June, Filipino devotees flock to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.

--- Parents and Families
--- Families
--- 2015 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- Family and vocations
--- African American and Asian candidates
--- Intercultural Wealth & Multicultural Awareness
--- Multicultural issues

[ Sr. Myrna Tordillo M.S.C.S. ]  

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Free webinars in May and June

Free webinars in May and June Youth synod webinar Learn more about the Synod in the four-part webinar "Synodality: Unpacking the Universal Church’s Recent Work on 'Young People, the Faith, and Vocational

--- 2019 Posts

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

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News from the vocation world

“Moving Forward” workshop to aid communities with issues surfaced in study A June workshop entitled “Moving Forward in Hope: Keys to the Future” will be held at the Oblate Renewal Center in San Antonio

--- 2012 HORIZON No. 2 Spring -- Vocations on campus

Vocation Ambassadors Program in June

Vocation Ambassadors Program in June Apply by March 25 The Vocation Ambassadors Program will take place June 9-12 at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana.

--- February 2017 newsletter

2024 Talk it Up Tuesdays!

2024 Talk it Up Tuesdays! Meet up and learn with NRVC members "Talk it Up Tuesdays," is back in February 2024!

--- Fall & winter events

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Bibliography of young adult literature

Jones, Deborah, “The Class of 2005,” Time Magazine, June 28, 1999, Vol. 153, No. 25. Marlatt, Andrew, “Generation Y,” The Internet World, August 15, 1999.

--- 2002 HORIZON No. 2 -- The Millennials

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Announcing our 2024 Convocation Keynote Presenters

Announcing our 2024 Convocation Keynote Presenters Invite everyone who supports vocation ministry to join you in Minneapolis, MN, as the Upper Midwest Member Area hosts the NRVC Convocation from October

--- 2024 Posts

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

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Convocation Anticipation and Sponsorship Outreach

Our 2024 Convocation theme:  Walking Humbly Together, recognizes the unity of our diversity as consecrated people of God.

--- 2024 Posts

[ Phil Loftus, Director of Development ]  

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Updates

Updates Hilton grants $2 million to NRVC In June 2014 the National Religious Vocation Conference received a three-year, $2 million grant from the Conrad N.

--- 2014 HORIZON No. 3 Summer -- Moving forward in hope