DISCERNMENT LINKS

Vocations Awareness Program (Irving, Texas)
helps single Catholic men and women, ages 18-40, find answers to questions they may have about life as a Priest, Sister, or Brother.

Vocation.com
offers Catholic vocation resources for promoting and discerning vocations.

Vocation-Network.org
for Catholic vocations to the religious life and priesthood.

Vocation Quest
offers resources for women discerning a call to become a Catholic Sister.

Vocation-Match.com
provides help for discerning a religious or priestly vocation, and making contact with an appropriate community.

Paths of Love: Catholic Vocation Discernment
focuses on love as the source for discerning every vocation.

ConsecratedVirgins.org
explains consecrated virginity in the Catholic Church.

Pope John Paull II: Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations (1996)
"Just as the seed produces abundant fruit in good soil, so vocations arise and mature in good number in the Christian community."

Pope Benedict XVI: Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations (2009)
"Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest"

Saying "Yes" when God Calls (PDF)
Why is it so difficult for some people to say "Yes" to Jesus in responding to a call to priesthood or religious life?

Celibacy to Love (PDF)
In our Catholic faith priesthood is a sacrament, a grace-filled sign of God’s love instituted by Christ.