Ways To Promote Vocations In Your Community

Here are a few simple ways you can promote vocations in your family, school, parish, and community.

MESSAGE FROM ARCHBISHOP VIGNERON DURING YEAR OF PRAYER FOR PRIESTLY VOCATIONS (PRIESTHOOD SUNDAY)

FORMING MEN OF THE HEARTS

In this Pastoral Note, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron shares how each of us is called to “pray, invite, and encourage men to the ministerial priesthood,” especially during this Year of Prayer for Priestly Vocations.

INVITE FR. CRAIG GIERA TO CELEBRATE A MASS ON PRIESTLY VOCATIONS

Fr. Craig Giera, Director of Priestly Vocations, would like to celebrate or concelebrate three weekend Masses and preach on priestly vocations. He is also willing to hear Saturday confessions.

HOLD A HOLY HOUR FOR PRIESTLY VOCATIONS

Coordinate a holy hour at your parish specifically focused on praying for priestly vocations or for the seminarians in our Archdiocese.

ADOPT A SEMINARIAN

In your school, classroom, or parish, select a seminarian to pray for every day! Put his picture up somewhere to remind you to pray for him.

CELEBRATE VOCATION DAYS

Attend an ordination, celebrate National Vocation Awareness week, or pray for all priests on Priesthood Sunday.

PRAY THE LUMINOUS MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY

Offer these mysteries for priestly vocations in our Archdiocese.

PRAY A PRAYER AFTER MASS FOR PRIESTLY VOCATIONS

After daily Mass, stay for a minute in the church and recite our prayer for priestly vocations as a community.

HOST A TRAVELING CHALICE PROGRAM IN YOUR FAMILY OF PARISHES

Discover one way you can practically invite parishioners to pray for priestly vocations, by hosting a Traveling Chalice Program. Through this program, you can bring the Year of Prayer for Priestly Vocations home for your parishioners and invite entire families to faithfully pray for priestly vocations.

BUILDING A CULTURE OF VOCATIONS IN FAMILIES OF PARISHES

We have the opportunity to engage families, educators, parish leaders, and priests in the work of promoting vocations to the priesthood and utilize the structures of the Family of Parishes to make vocational discernment normative in our communities.