Priests

What can you do?

• Speaks about vocations more often. 
• Shares your vocation testimony. 
• Shares a joyful and authentic example of the priesthood. 
• Invites youth to consider a vocation to the priesthood or religious life. 
• Visits the students often in classrooms, during lunch and/or recess, etc. 

Resources

Homily for Priesthood Testimony

Watch this Testimony Video

Homily for Invitation to discernment

Discerner’s Packet

Steps to forming a parish vocation ministry:

Step 1- Meet with the principal/parish catechetical leader.

Step 2- Give the principal/parish catechetical leader a Vocation Calendar to incorporate. 

Step 3- Ask the principal/parish catechetical leader to form a small vocation ministry/committee made up of teachers and parents.

Step 4- Buy a copy of The Harvest: A Guide to Vocation Ministry in Education for each member of the ministry. 

Step 5- Provide support when needed and where possible for this new ministry.

• Visit classrooms
• Interact with students at recess/lunch/carpool
• Organize religious sisters/seminarians/priests to visit 

Step 6- Ask the principal/parish catechetical leader to contact Rhonda for a 1-hour workshop for education either virtually or in person. 

Read this article, Without Vocations, There Will Be No Eucharistic Revival by Father Roger Landry about Vocation Ministry’s work and its importance.

Diocesan Partners

Vocation Ministry has worked with these and other dioceses to help build a culture of vocations. Want us to help your diocese? Let your vocation director know about our workshops.