Tag: Vocations

In his first message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Leo XIV is urging young people to make space for interior silence to listen to the Lord.

With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the priesthood and religious life.

Prayers, fasting, Eucharistic adoration and a return to the basics of Catholic faith are among the ways the faithful can encourage priestly and religious vocations in the church.

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.

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

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 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.

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 offered an improvised reflection, while greeting a group of religious participating in his General Audience, asking for more vocations.

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.

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...

Recognising the power of personal testimony in edifying teenagers to value the Christian life, Religious Education teachers from St Aloysius’ College, Milsons Point, gave...