Happy National Vocation Awareness Week

Here we are in the midst of "National Vocation Awareness Week" in the U.S.

Vocations: Priesthood, Consecrated Religious Life, Married Life.

Pillars of our Church and our Culture. Shadows of the Heavenly Kingdom.

Some cool things to look at, pray over, and consider...

Ten Things That Promote Vocations - Father David Toups, interim director of the Office of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) offers “Ten Things” Catholics can do to promote vocations to priesthood and religious life.

20% off select titles on marriage and family - Ignatius Press is offering 20% off titles like:

• Marriage: The Rock on Which Which The Family is Built (William May)
• Love and Responsibility (Karol Wojtyla)
• Male and Female He Created Them: Essays on Marriage and the Family (Jorge Cardinal Medina-Estevez)
• Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality (John F. Kippley)
• Marriage: The Dream That Refuses To Die (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese)
• Called to Love: Approaching John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (Carl Anderson, Fr. Jose Granados)
• Brave New Family: G. K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family (G. K. Chesterton)
• Covenant of Love: Pope John Paul II on Sexuality, Marriage, and Family in the Modern World (Fr. Richard Hogan, Fr. John LeVoir)

Vocations are Still a “Super-Priority” - Bishop Robert W. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph writes powerfully and profoundly on the vocation to the priesthood today.

Why the single life is not a vocation - Eric Sammons tackles the common misconception that single life is a vocation.

Prayer for Vocations from the Knights of Columbus website:

Heavenly Father, bless Your Church with an abundance of holy and zealous priests, deacons, brothers and sisters.
Give those You have called to the married state and those You have chosen to live as single persons in the world the special graces that their lives require.

Form us all in the likeness of Your Son so that in Him, with Him and through Him we may love You more deeply and serve You more faithfully, always and everywhere. With Mary we ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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