Tag: Vocations
Vocations flourish among Indigenous women in Guatemala’s remote highlands
When Sister Tonia Maria arrived in the region in the early 1970s, the lush landscapes and volcanoes surrounding towns and villages, were theatres of violence and widespread discrimination...today paints a different picture.
On Vocation: We seek, we find, we go to the one...
In my vocational seeking as a single man, diocesan seminarian, Dominican friar and now a married layman with a child on the way, St Bernard of Clairvaux has been my constant companion
Survey shows family devotion biggest factor in new vocations
Sydney’s younger priests are likely to have come from families where daily Mass, nightly praying of the rosary and reading the lives of the saints were common, a recent survey has confirmed.
The Call: How God gives the gift of a vocation
The Lord is always calling young men and women to join him in the work of sanctifying the world, some of them as priests or religious sisters or brothers.
Monica Doumit: When I pray for vocations, I feel the need...
For the last decade Monica Doumit has kept up a little tradition when praying for vocations. This Vocations Awareness Week, have you got a special way to ask God to send more workers into the harvest?
Pope Francis’ request for more vocations
Pope Francis offered an improvised reflection, while greeting a group of religious participating in his General Audience, asking for more vocations.
Outback Carmelites continue to bloom
In Mathoura, where the main topics of conversation are weather, wheat and sheep, there’s something growing the locals didn’t expect. Hidden away from the world on a remote property near the Riverina town of only a thousand people, the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph want the world to know they are praying for them.
Super Seventeen enter Sydney Seminary
Sydney’s Seminary of the Good Shepherd is becoming a powerhouse for the Church in Australia.
Seventeen men entered this year, the largest number in the...
Witness awakens vocations
Recognising the power of personal testimony in edifying teenagers to value the Christian life, Religious Education teachers from St Aloysius’ College, Milsons Point, gave...
Vocations all in the family
Christine and Bernie French have always seen their marriage as a vocation, but the fruits of that marriage are more than they could have...
Tears of Joy
On May 7 at Varroville in Sydney’s southwest, Br Adalbert made his solemn profession, promising to serve God as a Discalced Carmelite friar for...
Five decades of devotion
Two Sister Disciples of the Divine Master celebrate the leap they took 50 years ago.
When two young women from western Sydney took up the...
