Category

Call & Vocation

All people are called to ministry by virtue of their baptism. This is our general vocation, but we also have a specific call that leads us into one of the following ways of life: Marriage, Single Life, Ordained Ministry, Religious Life. Our lives take on deeper meaning when we respond openly to God's call.

Adult
Session

Call & Vocation

Adults will understand the meaning of vocation as God's call to be our true selves, to share our giftedness, and to be life-giving. Participants will value the practices which help us to realize, discern, and live out our vocations. • By Gayle Beuke

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Child
Session

Call & Vocation

Children will learn to identify their vocation and its significance in their life and in their spiritual growth. • By Jane Marie Osterhot SP

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Facilitator Background

Call & Vocation

Vocation is both specific and general. It is specific in the sense that God calls each of us in a unique way to share our gifts with the world. It is general in the sense that we are all called to be priest, prophet and king by virtue of our baptism. How we live our general vocation makes it specific. This resource gives background for facilitators to deepen their understanding of call and vocation. • By Mariette Martineau

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Prayers & Rituals

Call & Vocation

A Week of Prayer

Spend a week, perhaps to begin one meal a day, praying in thanksgiving for the diverse vocations God calls his people to share in the community.

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Home
Activity

Call & Vocation

Company for Supper

Many of us don't have opportunities to hear the stories of the vocational callings of the priests, religious, or singles in our life. Why not invite someone over for supper and have a conversation with them about their vocation and how they heard God calling them?

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Inter generational Session

Call & Vocation

This session explores the vocations of the Catholic Church from a general (all the baptized) to specific (priest, religious, married, single) perspective, and encourages participants to support one another as they live out their vocations. • By Mariette Martineau

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Individual / Wider Community

Call & Vocation

Learning Through Books

Two books to further your understanding of call and vocation.

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Individual / Wider Community

Call & Vocation

Two websites to further your understanding of call and vocation.

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Youth Session

Call & Vocation

Youth participants will think about how they have been called in their life and how that call is their vocation. This session will also explore the different vocational calls of marriage, priesthood, religious life, and single life. • By Ann Marie Eckert

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Prayers & Rituals

Vocation Prayer Service: Baptized & Called • Generations of Faith

This is best used as an opening or closing prayer experience when learning about vocations.

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Inter generational Session

Vocation: Four Calls • Generations of Faith

This activity explores the concept of vocation: human, Christian, ecclesial, and specific.

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Inter generational Session

Vocation: They Didn't Miss Their Call • Generations of Faith

Explore the concept of vocation by looking at examples from Scripture.

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Inter generational Session

Vocation • Generations of Faith

In this all-ages session, participants will develop a deeper understanding of vocation.

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Inter generational Session

We are Called

In this all-ages session, participants will reflect on how we are all called to be disciples.

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First Steps for Families

Vocation: Responding to the Call • First Steps for Families

A parent drop-in session and home activity focused on vocation. • By Jim Merhaut

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Inter generational Session

Becoming Community • FIRE

Prophecy

We are all called in baptism to be prophets. But what does that mean? In this session participants will experience what it might feel like to be called to respond as a prophet to unjust situations present around us. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

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Inter generational Session

Celebrating Community • FIRE

Holy Orders

In this session participants will examine the role of ordained leadership in the Church. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

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Inter generational Session

The Believing Community • FIRE

Call to Minister

In this session participants will understand the special place the baptism of Jesus appears to have had in his awareness of his own call. Participants will look at similar moments in their own lives where God calls them to a deeper understanding of who they are meant to be. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

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Inter generational Session

The Responding Community • FIRE

Mission Impossible: The Call of Abraham

Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, we are met time and again with the idea of call. Someone is “called” to do a special work for God. This call is given the name of “election.” This experience examines one of the first families to experience themselves as called, and tries to offer insight and understanding into what it must have felt like to be Abraham and Sarah. • By Kathleen O'Connell Chesto

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Prayers & Rituals

For the Priesthood & Vocations to Holy Orders

Communal prayer based on article 3 of the Decree on the Life & Ministry of Priests. • By Bill Huebsch

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Prayers & Rituals

For the Ministry of Our Clergy

Communal prayer based on the Constitution on the Church. • By Bill Huebsch

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Prayers & Rituals

For Women & Men Religious

Communal prayer based on articles 43-44 of the Constitution on the Church. • By Bill Huebsch

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