- Pray
for vocations in the classroom on a daily basis. Contact the
Vocations Office for a prayer poster and prayer cards
- Provide
opportunities for young people to work with priests, sisters or
brothers. (FYI: There is a new community of religious brothers in
south Phoenix.)
- Invite
small groups to share prayer and a meal with priests or sisters in
the rectory or convent.
- Have
Students prepare a "Class Mass" with the intention and
focus on vocation/ call.
- Bring
to the attention of the students graduates (alumni) who are priests,
brothers, sisters.
- Make
available religious vocation materials in the resource center,
library , or guidance office.
- Explore
through Scripture different ways that God calls people and the
various responses to that call. (List provided in this section).
- Promote
understanding of religious vocations through reading and projects
about founders of religious congregations. Regularly show
videos/films on saints and their lives.
- Help
Students to know and recognize the people who have already responded
to a religious vocational call in your parish or school.
- Develop
class projects that encourage student interaction with priests,
deacons, and religious.
- Build
VOCATION AWARENESS education into the curriculum as a regular facet.
- Pray
for Vocation to the priesthood in the classroom
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- Invite
religious faculty and parish priests to share their "vocation
story" with students. Host a "Question/ Answer" panel
discussion with priests or religious (you monitor questions)
- Encourage
students to pray so that they might discover and use the gifts that
God has given them.
- Guide
students in the development of the habit of personal prayer for
discernment of their vocations. The Vocations Office has a number of
prayer resources available.
- Sponsor
a contest with vocation awareness themes (creative writing, posters,
photography, art, etc.).
- Celebrate
VOCATION AWARENESS WEEK in January; use audio-visual materials with
vocational themes.
- Acquaint
students with various types of Church ministries.
- Incorporate
vocation themes into regular classroom prayer.
- Have
each student or classroom pray for one seminarian or novice by name.
Encourage the student(s) to write to the seminarian or novice.
- Make
available to students information about vocation events sponsored by
the Vocation Office for Diocesan Priesthood or Religious
Communities.
- Arrange
for regular visits to the classroom by priests and/ or sisters.
INVITE them regularly! Arrange for the Vocation Director to visit
your classroom for a presentation.
- Arrange for an "In-Service"
presentation on Vocations for the faculty and staff.
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