Vocation Promotion
- Qualities to look for in potential candidates for priesthood
- Qualities to look for in potential candidates for religious life
- Forming a Parish Vocation Committee
- 100 Parish Vocation Projects to try
- The Serra Club
- Prayer campaign (Adobe pdf file - prints like a booklet)
- Student Prayer campaign (Adobe pdf file - prints like a booklet)
- What parents can do to foster vocations
- Que pueden hacer los padres de familia para fomentar las vocaciones
- Oraciones de Vocaciones
- 100 General Intercessions for Vocation Awareness
Qualities to look for in candidates for religious life
(Excerpted from Operation Andrew, ©1997 National Coalition for Church Vocations & Priest as Inviter Video Workshop
According to the National Religious Vocations Conference, the following are qualities to look for in candidates for religious life:
- Membership in the Catholic Church
- Generally good health
- Adequate intellectual ability
- Healthy relationships, including good friends
- Sense of humor
- Ability to make a positive choice for celibacy
- Faith and sense of integrity
- Relationship with God
- Responsiveness to others
- Capacity to serve a variety of people
- Leadership ability
- Collaborative working style
- Ability to live simply, share a common life, and compromise for the common good
Where to look for potential candidates
Future priests, brothers and sisters can be found everywhere. But most often they might be:
- Teaching in a religious education program or in a Catholic school
- Lectoring at Mass
- Singing in the choir
- Serving as a Eucharistic Minister
- Volunteering in church or civic projects
- Participating in parish study groups or Newman programs in college
- Attending Mass regularly
- Participating in a scouting program
How to Invite
- Ask if he or she has ever thought about priesthood or religious life.
- Invite him or her to consider religious life.
- Tell him or her why you think he or she would make a good priest, brother or nun. Give examples of what you see in him or her.
- Introduce him or her to the vocation director.
- Pray for him or her.