Vocation Articles

Our Lady of the Cenacle Icon of the Monastic community

Benedictine Monks from Oklahoma Become Missionaries to the Irish Church

By Deacon Keith Fournier • 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 the Holy Eucharist • 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 ...

Caskets lovingly crafted by the Monks of New Melleray Abbey

Child Casket Fund: Trappist Monks of New Melleray Practice the Corporal Works of Mercy

By Deacon Keith Fournier • 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 William Ignatius • 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 Alison Roncin • 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 Fr Dwight Longenecker • 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 ...

Some of the sisters from around the world

Sisters of Bon Secours Open Chat Room and Feature Nun Taking Vows

By Jennifer Murphy • Sisters of Bon Secours • 10/19/2011

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, will be hosting a chat room, beginning October 25, for women who are considering religious life. Sisters ...

Study Finds that Most Catholic Priests are Happy and Appreciate Celibacy

By Genevieve Pollock • Zenit News Agency • 10/9/2011

Indeed, priestly happiness has been rising over the past several years and will likely rise even higher. In my research only 3.1% of priests were even thinking of leaving the priesthood. Given the enormous pressure on priesthood today and the many real challenges facing these men, this is ...

Father Jaime Rodriguez: Legionaries of Christ Appoint New General Secretary

By David Kerr • Catholic News Agency • 10/6/2011

Fr. Rodriguez hails from Madrid, Spain,where he attended a high school run by the Legion of Christ. He is the fourth child of six, and has two sisters - Marta and Gloria - who are consecrated women in the lay branch of the Legion, Regnum Christi. ROME, Italy (CNA/EWTN News) - The Legionaries of ...

We are all called to work in the Vineyard of the Lord

The Call: Congregation for the Clergy on Working in the Vineyard of the Lord

By Congregation for the Clergy • Catholic Online • 10/3/2011

The vineyard doesn't belong to the tenants. The fundamental experience of human life consists in its irreducible gift! No one is the master of life because no one is the author of life! Life is a gift and, with it, the cosmos in which we live was also given to us. This ...