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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
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
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 not only to enter our institutes, ... Read More
Elevate your skills and enhance your ministry through participation in Pre-Convocation workshops on October 31. Select two of the five workshops available, designed for vocation ministers, leadership teams, and all those responsible for newer entrants to religious life.
Pre-Convocation workshop registration includes your choice of two workshops and a ... 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
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
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
The NRVC Convocation begins at the opening reception on Thursday evening, October 31, and includes lunch on Friday and Saturday, concluding with the closing awards banquet on Sunday, November 3 at 9:00 pm. Pre-convocation workshops and the Sacred Sites Bus Pilgrimage must be purchased as separate items in the ... 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 ... 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 colorful 16-page booklet is a compendium of key messages about religious life taken from the 2020 NRVC/CARA Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life. Order copies to distribute to community members, board and alumni, discerners, parishes, and anyone who supports vocations to religious life. It is a great match ... 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
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