April 15, 2025 and February 12, 2025 Minutes from October 3, 2024 and December 10, 2024 Minutes from January 23, 2023, March 2, 2023, June 5, 2023, August 29, 2023 Coordinators Sister Michele Fisher

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

--- VISION Vocation Guide

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

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

--- Member Area News

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

Vietnamese Marian Days, Carthage, MO August 4, 2024, The FEST, Wickliffe, Ohio August 9-12, 2024, Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement Convention, High Springs, FL September 28-29, 2024, Christ Our

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Pilgrimage, July 2024.

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The revisions were publicized to all members in the August and September NRVC newsletters and can be accessed here.

--- 2020 Posts

[ National Office ]  

Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious, September 21-23, St. Louis Resource Center for Religious Institutes, September 26-28, St.

--- News

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

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

Updates Attendees at the 2022 convocation of the National Religious Vocation Conference show off a centerpiece candle.

--- 2023 HORIZON No. 1 Winter--Call beyond borders

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

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

Cultural awareness matters in assessing candidates for religious life, written by Helga Leija, Global Sisters Report, September 16, 2025.

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Vocation ministry dates for 2023 The church has several dates dedicated to promoting and celebrating religious life.

--- 2022 HORIZON No. 4 Fall--Staying grounded

Vocation directors, communicators, and a focus group of young adults convened by NRVC met in September in Chicago to begin designing a "Vocation Ambassadors" program.

--- October 2015 newsletter

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

Let's Get Together at Summer Institute The 2023 NRVC Summer Institute will be offered in person this year at the Marillac Center in Leavenworth, KS.

--- 2023 Posts

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

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 ]  

Len Uhal as he completes seven remarkable years of dedicated service on our National Board at the September meeting in Chicago.

--- News

To help them be part of the ministry, I send them a monthly e-newsletter. Last March Sister Deborah Borneman, SS.C.M. did an in-service for my community about contemporary vocation ministry.

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

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 ]  

2023 NCYC November 16-18, 2023 The NRVC is promoting vocations at NCYC!

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

Catholics on Call also invites campus ministers, vocation directors, and anyone who works with young adult Catholics to attend its next Partner Conference, which will be September 19-20.  

--- July 2019 newsletter

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
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--- 2013 HORIZON No. 4 Fall -- 25 years in the vineyard of the Lord

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!

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

2023 World Youth Day, Portugal August 1-6, 2023 Mark your calendars for World Youth Day celebrated August 1-6, 2023.  Check the official website frequently for updated information.

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2023 World Youth Day, Portugal August 1-6, 2023 Mark your calendars for World Youth Day celebrated August 1-6, 2023.  Check the official website frequently for updated information.

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2020 Virtual Convocation registration fees This article was updated July 15, 2020.  Registration for 2020 Virtual Convocation begins by September 2020. Schedule and fees to be determined.   

--- 2020 Posts

[ National Office ]  

They also celebrated the 35th anniversary of the National Religious Vocation Conference, commemorating the ratification of the NRVC Constitution which took place in September 1987, which enabled the NRVC

--- 2023 Posts

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

2020 Pre-Convocation virtual workshops to be determined Updated Sept. 29, 2020.

--- 2020 Posts

[ Sister Deborah M. Borneman SS.C.M. ]  

2020 Convocation pivots to virtual gathering Schedule, speakers, and registration to come. Updated July 15, 2020. 2020 Convocation will be a virtual gathering rather than a convening in Spokane, WA.

--- 2020 Posts

[ NRVC National Board ]  

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

Logo chosen for 2020 convocation Summer Institute participants vote This article was updated July 15, 2020. Please not that the 2020 Convocation will NOT be in Spokane, WA.

--- August 2019 newsletter

2023 World Youth Day, Portugal August 1-6, 2023 Mark your calendars for World Youth Day celebrated August 1-6, 2023.  Check the official website frequently for updated information.

--- Spring & summer events

The next Partner Conference will be September 19-20.

--- June 2019 newsletter

Sister Corrina Thomas, F.S.P.A. is one of four new NRVC Board members as of September 2025. 

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2020 Virtual Convocation registration to open by September. This article was updated July 15, 2020.

--- 2020 Posts

[ Marge Argyelan, Director of Database Administration ]  

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

No increase to 2021 NRVC annual membership fees We are happpy to report that NRVC annual membership fees will remain the same in 2021.

--- 2020 Posts

[ Maureen Cetera, Director of Finance and Operations ]  

When the NRVC Member Area Coordinators (MACs) gathered for their annual meeting in September, 2022, they visited the Gateway Arch and the Basilica of St. Louis as part of a vocation pilgrimage.

--- 2023 Posts

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

The NRVC Curriculum for Vocation Ministers was ratified by the National Board in 2009 and was amended at its fall meeting in September 2022.

--- 2022 Posts

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

A browser released since approximately 2013. These browsers include the following forms or later editions: Chrome v22, Firefox v27, Safari v7, or Internet Explorer 11. 

--- February 2018 newsletter

FL November 20-22, 2025,  NFCYM National Catholic Youth Conference January 1-5, 2026, FOCUS SEEK, Columbus, Denver, and Fort Worth February 13-15, 2026, Dallas Catholic Youth Conference February 19

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After much prayer and discernment with our Leadership Team, I transitioned into the vocation world in September 2009.

--- December 2013 newsletter
--- I am NRVC!

An insightful analysis of youth today is reported in an article by Mary Anne Reese published in the September 22, 2003 issue of America.3 What follows is a brief summary of her work.

--- Ecclesial diversity

[ Nancy Schreck O.S.F. ]  

World Meeting of Families September 22-25, 2015 NRVC will be part of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia September 22-25, which is expected to gather 10-15,000 Catholics from 150 countries.

--- September 2015 newsletter

Catholics on Call conference September 21-22 Frank Mercadante will speak at the Catholics on Call conference.

--- August 2017 newsletter

CARA 2023 Entrance Class Report Published The CARA Entrance Class of 2023 report is published and contains significant information about the 153 men and 126 women who entered religious life last year.

--- 2024 Posts

[ Sister Deborah M. Borneman SS.C.M. ]  

Day of Prayer with Religious September 13 As part of the Year of Consecrated Life, the U.S.

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