This virtual Fall Institute workshop is essential for all new and recently appointed vocation directors and teams. Its goal is to provide participants with the foundational skills, context, theory, challenges, and practicalities of contemporary vocation ministry. Topics will include accompaniment with inquirers, assessment of discerners; application and admission process, ... Read More

This virtual Fall Institute workshop is designed to assist vocation ministers, congregational leaders, and vocation team members in understanding and articulating the basic ethical values, principles, and standards of vocation ministry. Topics include the ethical principles governing agency, confidentiality, and obligations related to positions of trust; dissemination of information; the ... Read More

This is a one-day virtual workshop. The presenter will guide participants through critical questions to ask serious discerners before they enter the formation process, and how to assess whether trauma-related issues have been sufficiently addressed. The workshop will offer practical strategies for assisting candidates with trauma histories in seeking ... Read More

Join us for an enriching and transformative virtual Culture Matters: Are We Listening with Today's Discerners workshop series designed for those passionate about promoting vocations and engaging with diverse candidates. Over three dynamic days, you will have the opportunity to: 1) work through cultural biases and foster authentic hospitality as ... Read More

This 16-page color booklet highlights significant findings from the 2020 NRVC/CARA Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life. This resource is perfect for those who want to learn more about the charateristics of newer entrants in the United States: intercultural living, community life, intergenerational living, education, prayer, and ministry engagement ... Read More

Religious communities must always honor and celebrate their unique charisms, histories, and stories of faith. Still, we cannot become wedded to the past and unwilling to create a new model of community, where we reach out, invite, and welcome women and men of color to enter our institutes and transform ... Read More

This virtual Fall Institute workshop teaches practical interviewing techniques in a theoretical framework of behavioral assessment. While the focus is on the initial assessment of candidates, the methodology is readily adapted to assessing candidates in other stages of formation. Interview topics include family background, educational and occupational histories, psychosexual ... Read More

This colorful new resource contains a prayer for Abundant Hope and a verse from Fratelli Tutti. 55: Hope is bold; it can open us up to grand ideals that make life more beautiful and worthwhile. Let us continue, then, to advance along the paths of hope. We thank artist, Sister Joni Luna, S.P. who ... Read More

This color handout is designed to provide clear direction for community members who support vocation promotion efforts through prayer, invitation, and encouragement, to people in discernment desiring to learn more about consecrated life. This resource is not for discerners, rather it is a great resource to give to all community ... Read More

This highly readable 64-page book by Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. provides encouragement and guidance for discerners and all people who want to learn more about religious life. Both realistic and optimistic, she explores themes such as community, prayer, the vows, and the distinctiveness of religious life. This book is an ... Read More

This new resource was created to have meaningful conversation on 8 topics in vocation ministry. It's a twenty page compendium booklet to the 2020 Study on Recent Vocations to Religious Life for vocation directors, leadership, and all those who pray, invite, and encourage vocations to religious life. If you desire ... Read More

This 99-page, easy-to-read book by Father Mark David Janus, C.S.P. is perfect for inquirers, board members, high school and college graduates, confirmation candidates, etc. Its 34 chapters examine calling and vocations to religious life, ordained life, marriage, and single life.

Replicated from the "I hope you come to find" prayer card, this great giveaway is entirely written in Spanish. The inspirational prayer on the front is by martyred Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford and the back side of the card provides a list of some of the great witnesses from scripture ... Read More

This 20-page color booklet is designed for inquirers, their parents, and those who want to know more about the most common words used in vocations to religious life. It also gives creative suggestions on ways to increase one's vocation vocabulary in fun ways. If you desire bulk orders of 100 ... Read More

The perfect giveaway for vocation events, campus visits, service immersion experiences, and inserts in graduation/Confirmation cards. The inspirational prayer on the front is by martyred Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford and the back side of the card provides a list of some of the great witnesses from scripture who have answered ... Read More