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New at 2024 Summer Institute! Today’s discerners come with varied healthcare preferences, chronic illnesses, and problematic medical issues that may complicate vocation discernment and the admissions process. Canon law 642 informs vocation directors and major superiors “to exercise a vigilant care to admit only those who, besides being of ... Read More
If you need to stay an extra overnight on July 29 for Summer Institute, please use this option to confirm a reservation. Please note that this option is only for those registered for the workshop, Being Human and Sexual: An Evolving Understanding.
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This Summer Institute workshop provides vocation directors and those in leadership clarity to adequately assess a candidate’s ability to live celibacy within vowed communal life. Beginning with fundamental understandings that sexuality is integral to being human, centered in relationship and presence, participants will explore the following: well-being, an integrated understanding ... Read More
This Summer Institute workshop 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, boundaries, animating vowed ... Read More
This Summer Institute 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 Summer Institute workshop is designed to assist vocation ministers, congregational leaders, and vocation team members in understanding and articulating the basic ethical values, principles, and standards of vocation ministry. Topics include the ethical principles governing agency, confidentiality, and obligations related to positions of trust; dissemination of information; the timeliness ... Read More
Imagine looking 10 years ahead, what are your hopes for the future of religious life? The 2020 Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life captured a snapshot of religious life today and provided a glimpse into the next decade. With over 1,500 newer entrants commenting, it is clear that the ... 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
These postcard-sized cards featuring two beautiful Kente cloth designs are a perfect resource to promote all vocations in a variety of settings. The front of the prayer card contains a moving prayer by Sister Beatrice Jeffries, S.B.S., and the back has Scripture verses from 1 Kings 19:11-12. This new resource ... Read More
College students participating in campus Busy Persons Retreats can use this colorful booklet with 17 themes. Students select a theme that includes at least 8 scripture choices and a variety of reflection questions that can be used throughout the retreat. What makes this resource ideal, is that these booklets can ... Read More
This colorful infographic is ideal for parish bulletin inserts, community assemblies, and exhibit giveaways. It includes statistics from the 2020 NRVC/CARA Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life. It is priced affordably in packs of 50 handouts. Call the National Office for additional bulk pricing.
... Read MoreThese colorful business-sized cards make ideal giveaways at Catholic events as a way to begin a discussion about religious vocations. This popular resource has been used at exhibits such as the National Catholic Youth Conference and World Youth Day. Designed to promote all religious vocations, these cards come in a pack ... 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 director's manual is the companion to the discerner's journal which contains 14 themes with scripture reflection, quotes from Vatican II and Church Documents, as well as reflection questions. This resource is intended for vocation ministers who work with inquirers who want more in-depth assessment in discernment as it contains ... Read More
Dios concedeme un corazon que pueda discernir This is a favorite resource for vocation ministers because this folder contains 14 relevant topics for those who are prayerfully considering their future. The resource is intended to be used by vocation directors, spiritual directors, campus ministers, and vocation team members. The approach ... Read More
This discernment journal contains 14 themes with scripture reflection, quotes from Vatican II and Church Documents, as well as reflection questions. This resource is intended for use by inquirers who want more in-depth conversation and assessment in discernment. This resource is available in English and is best used together with ... Read More
This 63-page booklet is an affordable resource for seekers and inquirers who want to pray more about their vocation. It is written as a thirty-day retreat using Scripture, reflection, activities, and questions to help discernment. One way to use this booklet is to give it to students after their Busy ... 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
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 attractive postcard-size prayer card can complement the vocation promotion resources given at events, especially those with a diverse crowd. This prayer card also makes a perfect gift enclosure for building relationships with catechists and directors of religious education, especially for Catechetical Sunday. The front of the card has space ... Read More
This colorful handout has a beautifully composed Litany for Vocations on one side, with the reverse side featuring a reflection on the cost of clothes we wear to the environment and ways to live more simply. This handout was designed for the National Catholic Youth Conference in the NRVC t-shirt swap ... Read More
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