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This color handout is designed for all pilgrimage sites for this Jubilee Year! It includes a Call to Prayer and Reflection from the papal bull, “Spes Non Confudit,” meaning “Hope Does Not Disappoint,” intercessions, and a litany for vocations. It is the perfect resource to add to Church bulletins, employee ... Read More
This one day workshop, Candidate Assessment through the Lens of Interculturality, aims to equip participants with the skills to assess applicants for admission with cultural sensitivity, acknowledging the socio-economic factors and generational trauma that affect discerners and vowed members today. It addresses the impact of these factors on health and ... Read More
In the ever-expanding world of new technology, communications, and marketing, vocation ministers must communicate well via various forms to promote religious vocations and accompany inquirers and discerners effectively. This hands-on Vocation Promotion for Today's Discerners workshop will explore strategic communication planning, social media content development and analysis of its ... Read More
This Orientation Program for New Vocation Directors is essential for all newly appointed vocation directors and teams. Its goal is to provide participants with the foundational skills, context, theory, challenges, and practicalities of contemporary vocation ministry. Topics will include accompaniment with inquirers, assessment of discerners, application and admission processes, vocation promotion, canon law, ... Read More
This Behavioral Assessment 1 workshop teaches practical interviewing techniques in a theoretical framework of behavioral assessment. While the focus is on the initial assessment of candidates, the methodology is readily adapted to assessing candidates in other stages of formation. Interview topics include family background, educational and occupational histories, psychosexual histories ... Read More
This updated 24 page retreat booklet for Catholics over the age of 18 has 17 themes filled with inspiring quotes from Christus Vivit, Dilexit Nos, Fratelli Tutti, Gaudete et Exsultate, and Laudato Si. Retreatants select a theme that includes 8 scripture choices and a variety of reflection questions that can be ... Read More
These colorful 3 x 3 inch circle stickers are perfect to give away to all Pilgrims of Hope throughout the 2025 Jubilee Year! Consider placing them at pilgrimage sites as they are large enough to put contact information/messages of hope on the back of the stickers. Stickers can be used ... Read More
Join us for an enriching and transformative virtual Culture Matters: Are We Listening with Today's Discerners workshop series designed for those passionate about promoting vocations and engaging with diverse candidates. Over three dynamic days, you will have the opportunity to: 1) work through cultural biases and foster authentic hospitality as ... Read More
This 16-page color booklet highlights significant findings from the 2020 NRVC/CARA Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life. This resource is perfect for those who want to learn more about the charateristics of newer entrants in the United States: intercultural living, community life, intergenerational living, education, prayer, and ministry engagement ... Read More
Religious communities must always honor and celebrate their unique charisms, histories, and stories of faith. Still, we cannot become wedded to the past and unwilling to create a new model of community, where we reach out, invite, and welcome women and men of color to enter our institutes and transform ... Read More
This colorful new resource contains a prayer for Abundant Hope and a verse from Fratelli Tutti. 55: Hope is bold; it can open us up to grand ideals that make life more beautiful and worthwhile. Let us continue, then, to advance along the paths of hope. We thank artist, Sister Joni Luna, S.P. who ... Read More
This color handout is designed to provide clear direction for community members who support vocation promotion efforts through prayer, invitation, and encouragement, to people in discernment desiring to learn more about consecrated life. This resource is not for discerners, rather it is a great resource to give to all community ... Read More
Share this resource as a colorful handout or use the fun facts as elevator signs, dining-room-table tents, in newsletters, faith-formation classes, school and bulletin announcements/inserts, social-media posts, card inserts, and on meeting agendas to increase awareness of vocations to religious life. It is priced affordably in packs of 50 handouts. Call ... Read More
This highly readable 64-page book by Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. provides encouragement and guidance for discerners and all people who want to learn more about religious life. Both realistic and optimistic, she explores themes such as community, prayer, the vows, and the distinctiveness of religious life. This book is an ... Read More
This new resource was created to have meaningful conversation on 8 topics in vocation ministry. It's a twenty page compendium booklet to the 2020 Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life for vocation directors, leadership, and all those who pray, invite, and encourage vocations to religious life. If you desire ... Read More
This 99-page, easy-to-read book by Father Mark David Janus, C.S.P. is perfect for inquirers, board members, high school and college graduates, confirmation candidates, etc. Its 34 chapters examine calling and vocations to religious life, ordained life, marriage, and single life.
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Replicated from the "I hope you come to find" prayer card, this great giveaway is entirely written in Spanish. The inspirational prayer on the front is by martyred Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford and the back side of the card provides a list of some of the great witnesses from scripture ... Read More
This 20-page color booklet is designed for inquirers, their parents, and those who want to know more about the most common words used in vocations to religious life. It also gives creative suggestions on ways to increase one's vocation vocabulary in fun ways. If you desire bulk orders of 100 ... Read More
The perfect giveaway for vocation events, campus visits, service immersion experiences, and inserts in graduation/Confirmation cards. The inspirational prayer on the front is by martyred Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford and the back side of the card provides a list of some of the great witnesses from scripture who have answered ... Read More
This colorful brochure answers 10 commonly asked questions about vocations to religious life. Each packet comes with 100 brochures, to make this resource easy to send to members to place in parishes, ministries, and orientation folders for students, board members, volunteers, and employees, as well as those inquiring about religious ... Read More
This colorful, four-panel brochure treats 10 questions, giving accurate answers to things parents commonly ask about vocations to religious life. Sold in packages of 100, this brochure is affordable as a giveaway in parish bulletins, vocation fairs, and large events. It answers the following: Are people entering religious life? Why ... Read More
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Being connected to others doing similar ministry is a big reason that Friar Emanuel Vasconcelos, O.F.M.Conv. is part of the NRVC. He is vocation director for the Franciscan Friars Conventual, Our Lady of the Angels province. He is also a Mid-Atlantic Member Area Coordinator, along with Sister Jean Rhoades, D.C. Read more...
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