National Vocation Awareness Week Resources
Examples to include in your Prayers of the Faithful
- During National Vocation Awareness Week, we ask the Holy Spirit to renew the Church with more vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life. We pray to the Lord.
- For Catholic educators, that they can inspire students to remain open to God’s call for their lives. We pray to the Lord.
- That young men from our parish will respond to the Church’s tremendous need for priests. We pray to the Lord.
- That young men and women in our parish will seriously consider making vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in religious life. We pray to the Lord.
- That Christian parents, as they live their own vocations to marriage, will encourage their children to consider a priestly or religious vocation. We pray to the Lord.
- For the priests and religious who have served our parish and have passed from this life, especially <names>, that the Lord grant them eternal happiness. We pray to the Lord.
Examples to include in your bulletin
Today begins Vocation Awareness Week
As Catholics, we firmly believe that God has a plan for our lives! He calls some to marriage, some to the priesthood, and others to religious life or to live as generous single people. Fully living our own vocations—and teaching young people how to discern God’s call—is a serious duty, but also a joyful one.
During this week, please encourage the young people in your life—children, grandchildren, students, and friends—to be open if God calls them to priesthood or religious life.
Everyone Has a Divine Vocation
“Jesus has a specific task in life for each and every one of us. Each one of us is hand-picked, called by name by Jesus! There is no one among us who does not have a divine vocation! Some are called audibly by God, but the usual kind of call is internal, through the inner working of the Spirit.” ~Homily by Pope Saint John Paul II
Helpful Links
National Vocations Week – Vianney Vocations
Creating a Culture of Vocations – Vocation Ministry
Lesson Plans for National Vocation Awareness Week – USCCB
Contact Mike Vickey at mmmvickery@gmail.com to have these Vocation Holy Cards and other Vocation pamphlets sent free of charge from the Serra Club of St. Louis to your parish.
