Description
Every vocation begins with God—but God ordinarily works through people.
The Parish Vocation Committee Quick Start Guide helps ordinary parishioners take an active role in creating a culture where young people can hear and respond to God’s call.
Created especially for Serra Clubs, parish vocation committees, pastors, and other vocation-minded Catholics, this attractive, easy-to-read guide explains how a small group of committed parishioners can make vocations more visible without creating another complicated parish program.
The guide begins with the foundation of all vocation work: prayer. From there, it offers practical advice for forming a committee, working collaboratively with the pastor and diocesan Vocation Office, and choosing a manageable set of activities for the first year.
Readers will discover five practical priorities for getting started: establishing regular prayer for vocations, keeping vocations visible, celebrating and affirming vocations, focusing attention on children and young adults, and personally inviting young people to consider where God may be calling them.
Throughout, the emphasis is not simply on “recruiting” priests or religious, but on creating a healthy parish environment in which every young person is encouraged to ask the vocation question.
For Serra Clubs, the Quick Start Guide is also an excellent resource to place directly into the hands of parish vocation committee members and other lay Catholics who want to promote vocations but may not know where to begin.
Format: Oversized trifold brochure, 11″ × 17″ flat; folds to 5.65″ × 11″.
