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New Year Resolution: Adoration for Vocations

Resolutions are a great tradition. Every new year, people around the world resolve to make their lives better and healthier by cultivating good habits or virtues.

Many people choose exercise, dieting, or saving money. Consider another alternative: Adoring the Eucharist one hour per week for the intention of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. This is a simple and effective way to deepen your spiritual life, grow in deeper relationship with Jesus in the Eucharist, and fulfill your responsibility to promote priestly and religious vocations.

Dioceses around the country continue to report increased numbers of men and women that enter priestly and religious life as an effect of Eucharistic adoration. To learn which parishes offer weekly adoration, please contact your parish bulletin or Diocesan Office.

Courtesy of the Diocese of Gary, USA

Priestly Vocations and the Birth of Christ

Why do I write on priestly vocations just before Christmas? Because the call of young men to the priesthood is one of the outstanding signs of Christ's faithful coming into our lives in the Church, since He first came at Bethlehem.

In the call of priests, we see in a wonderful way the desire of Christ, as our Head and Shepherd, to be with us always and in every part of the world. The profound hope and joy which we experience in young men praying about and responding to the call to the priesthood has its source in the experience of the immeasurable love of Christ for us all through the ministry of His priests.

Yes, the greatest sign of Christ's faithful dwelling with us in the Church is the Holy Eucharist. Christmas is, above all, a Eucharistic feast, for Christ was born in time, in order to sacrifice His life for our salvation on Calvary, the Sacrifice which is ever new for us in the celebration of the Holy Mass. Our hope and joy at the new priestly vocations in the Archdiocese is directly connected with the Holy Eucharist, for the heart of the priestly vocation and mission is the offering of the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the person of Christ. So many other encounters with Christ in the Church are directly connected with the priestly ministry. Christ's gift of new priestly vocations is the gift of Himself to us in many and wonderful ways.

This article is courtesy of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis Diocese. Click for the full article:

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Vocation Directors Meet In Killarney

Diocesan Vocation Directors Meet in Killarney:

“I am the vine, you are the branches”
John 15:5

From Monday 20th October through to Wednesday 22nd October, Vocation Directors from 17 of the 26 Dioceses in Ireland met to explore some of the connections between this well-known scripture passage and the broad work of ‘Vocations’ in our dioceses. The Theme was chosen by the vocation directors at their meeting last year;

Priests Must Prioritize Homilies

Priests must prioritize, devote time to homilies

Although today's priests often are burdened by heavy schedules, they need to make Sunday preaching a priority and take the time to create intelligent and inspiring homilies, said Texas Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

Are Parents the First Vocation Directors?

Each of us is called to holiness, to be followers of Christ, the Holy One. This basic call is lived out most commonly in the married state " but also in the single state or as clergy or religious". (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church No. 2013, Lumen Gentium No. 40) God knows and wants what is best for each of us and for the common good of all. Each is urged to discern prayerfully and respond positively to God's specific call. If we desire to know God's call for each of us, we can be consoled that he will make it known to us. But each would do well to ask: Am I responding to God's basic call to holiness? Am I striving for holiness in my particular state of life?

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