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Bishops Launch ... Website To Promote Vocations To Priesthood & Consecrated Life (Catholic Caucus)
USCCB.org ^ | April 27th, 2010 | USCCB

Posted on 04/27/2010 9:57:27 PM PDT by Salvation

Bishops Launch National Website To Promote Vocations To Priesthood And Consecrated Life

April 27th, 2010 by USCCB

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations is initiating a new website on April 25 to be a resource for both laity and clergy in the promotion of vocations. The launch date is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations and Good Shepherd Sunday.

The site has two goals:

To help individuals hear and respond to the call by God to the priesthood or consecrated life, and

To educate all Catholics on the importance of encouraging others through prayer and activities to promote vocations.

The Vocations Website can be found at www.ForYourVocation.org. A Spanish-language site will be available this fall at www.PorTuVocacion.org.

Site elements include discernment resources for men and women, respectively, aids for promoting a vocation culture within the home, and a range of tools for educators, youth leaders and vocation directors including prayers, videos, best practices, lesson plans and vocation awareness programs.

In response to Pope Benedict XVI’s 2010 Theme for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Witness Awakens Vocations, the site also hosts videos of priests and religious men and women giving witness to their vocations, as well as testimonies from family members.

ForYourVocation.org exemplifies the Vatican’s embrace of new communications media. In his message for the 44th World Day of Communications, Pope Benedict XVI challenges clergy to employ the “latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, websites)” to put the media “ever more effectively at the service of the Word.”

The launch of the site will be promoted through social media forums. Facebook users can become “eVangelizers” for the cause. By becoming an eVangelizer, one can connect others to the Website’s blog posts.

Dioceses and organizations may link to ForYourVocation.org by following the instructions at the website.

This update is courtesy of US Conference of Catholic Bishops.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Prayer; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholiclist; vocations
A little late in my opinion.
1 posted on 04/27/2010 9:57:28 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation
This is a Catholic Caucus thread.


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2 posted on 04/27/2010 9:58:13 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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3 posted on 04/27/2010 9:59:20 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Bishops Launch National Website To Promote Vocations To Priesthood and Consecrated Life (Catholic Caucus)

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4 posted on 04/27/2010 10:09:35 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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A little late in my opinion.

Yes I am with you Salvation. Anything the USCCB does is so milquetoast it is doomed to fail IMHO.

If they were serious about vocations they could start with:

* Eliminate "altar girls"
* Require the Extraordinary Form at every parish
* Purge the heterodox bishops, especially the homos
* Show some leadership in confronting pseudo-Catholic politicians
* Stop the feminization of the church

Do the bishops have the stones to do any of the above? Not a chance.

But hey they can put up a web site that everyone will ignore.

5 posted on 04/27/2010 10:15:06 PM PDT by jtal
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**Do the bishops have the stones to do any of the above? Not a chance. **

Some will. Keep watching. Or as they say, “Stay tuned for further developments.”


6 posted on 04/27/2010 10:19:10 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Better late than never.

Personally, I have found these two sites very useful:

http://www.pathsoflove.com/

http://www.religious-vocation.com/

It is so important to form our children with an understanding that God may be calling them do do something extraordinary with their lives.
7 posted on 04/28/2010 7:13:54 AM PDT by Antoninus (It's a degenerate society where dogs have more legal rights than unborn babies.)
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Thanks for those great links!


8 posted on 04/28/2010 9:06:45 AM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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If only the USCCB had any credibility whatsoever. Over half the American bishops covered up sex abuse in one way or another. They have discredited their own priesthoods. After poisoning the well, they expect holy men to jump in. Good luck! We need prayer, not the USCCB.


9 posted on 04/28/2010 2:55:54 PM PDT by schmootman
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**We need prayer**

Pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life.


10 posted on 04/28/2010 2:57:45 PM PDT by Salvation ( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

bttt


11 posted on 01/10/2015 7:46:10 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus
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12 posted on 01/10/2015 7:48:43 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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