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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.
If you have questions, please reach out to ... Read More
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
Join us for an extra day on Monday, November 4, 2024, from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm on a bus pilgrimage. Cost: $175 which includes bus transportation, 2 meals from Native American-owned restaurants, entrance fees, and driver tip. Register for the Convocation and pre-convocation workshops separately.
This incredible bus pilgrimage begins by ... 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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