Vocation Articles
Archbishop José H. Gomez on Praying for Priests and Promoting Vocations
By • The Tidings • 11/20/2012
Every priest is a sacrament - a sign and instrument that brings men and women to the encounter with the living God. So in this Year of Faith, we need to refocus ourselves, especially in our families, on helping men to hear this beautiful and noble calling from Jesus. BALTIMORE, MD (The Tidings) - I ...
COL EXCLUSIVE: Fr. Pontifex - See what this priest does to deliver his powerful message
By • Catholic Online • 11/19/2012
He is a growing personality in the Catholic world and represents a new movement to engage the youth and reconvert the lost. Is he the Pope? A new bishop? A pop star? Well, he's not any of these things - yet. However, Fr. Pontifex, may eventually be all three, God willing. EVANSVILLE, IN (Catholic ...
Sisters of Bon Secours Host Project Good Help to Assist Underserved in Baltimore
By • Sisters of Bon Secours • 7/17/2012
The Sisters of Bon Secours, an international community of Catholic women religious (sisters) with ministries in healthcare, human and social services, education and spiritual retreats, is welcoming volunteers to participate in Project Good Help®. This annual short-term service project will help ...
Benedictine Monks from Oklahoma Move to Ireland's Stamullen Priory
By • Catholic Online • 3/17/2012
They seek to bring healing to a wounded Irish Church. I believe they are a first fruit of her restoration and a sign of her future contribution in a new missionary age. God has not abandoned the Church in Ireland. The Purification of the Church always precedes her healing, strengthening and ...
Benedictine Monks from Oklahoma Become Missionaries to the Irish Church
By • Catholic Online • 1/28/2012
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, and the brothers gathered with him, represent the best of the monastic life. They are moving their entire community to Ireland, a land which once gave the world monks, missionaries, and martyrs. They are doing so in order to help bring about the healing of ...
Knights of the Holy Eucharist Announce Facebook Page
By • Knights of Holy Eucharist • 12/21/2011
Young men 18 and older interested in our community are welcome to visit for up to two weeks. This way they can participate in our work and prayer and make a pilgrimage to this Shrine.Knights of the Holy Eucharist Announce Facebook Page HANCEVILLE, AL (Knights of the Holy Eucharist) - The ...
Child Casket Fund: Trappist Monks of New Melleray Practice the Corporal Works of Mercy
By • Catholic Online • 12/15/2011
New Melleray is a Cistercian (Trappist) monastery located in the beautiful rolling farmland south of Dubuque, Iowa. Thirty monks live in community - praying and working for the salvation of the whole world. Crafting childrens caskets is an act of love and a corporal work of mercy ...
Melkite Catholic Church to Ordain Married Men to the Priesthood in the US
By • Catholic Online • 11/13/2011
The Bishop of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton, Massachusetts announced that the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the United States would be ordaining married men to the priesthood. These comments raise significant questions of what the consequence of such a move might mean for this Eastern Catholic ...
Trappist Monks and Nuns Revive Interest in Monastic Vocations Online
By • Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance • 11/8/2011
For more than nine centuries, Trappist monks and nuns have witnessed to the gospel of Jesus Christ through a cloistered, communal life wholly ordered to contemplation. Cistercian communities across the U.S. are reaching out in new ways to revive awareness and interest in the monastic vocation. To ...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker Asks: Why Monks?
By • Standing on My Head • 10/28/2011
You thought monks were just cutting themselves off--doing something radical and a little bit misanthropic. In the meantime they were doing something beautiful for God. Hidden away in the desert, they are cultivating the power of prayer and planting the seed of God in the world. GREENVILLE, SC ...
