From November 3-9, we celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, a time dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Throughout the week, the Province Vocation Office is sharing brief quotes from our seminarians about their experience of following God’s call. They appear on the province Facebook page and Instagram.
“No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people,” said Pope Francis.
Consistently, research shows that it is personal invitation that often leads a person to pursue a vocation to religious life and/or the priesthood. That invitation might come from a priest or religious, but it could also come from a family member, a friend, a teacher, a fellow parishioner.
Is there someone in your life whom you could envision as a priest, sister, brother or deacon? Someone who is active in your parish, who regularly receives the sacraments, who simply seems faith-filled?
Sometimes others see in us what we do not see ourselves. Offer that personal invitation. Encourage a young person to pray about the possibility of a vocation to the Church.
For more information about promoting vocations, contact the vocation office at vocations@dehoniansusa.org or call 414-427-4279.
