Vocations
Vocations
Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist are sacraments of Christian initiation. They ground the common vocation of all Christ’s disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world. They confer the graces needed for the life according to the Spirit during this life as pilgrims on the march towards the homeland.” (CCC 1533)
“The vocation of humanity is to show forth the image of God and to be transformed into the image of the Father’s only Son.” (CCC 1877)
PRAYER TO KNOW ONE’S VOCATION
Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you.
But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen. (USCCB)
Find out more about vocations and discerning your call here.
VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD
“What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you ever think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?
-Pope Saint John Paul II
A priesthood vocation is a sacred calling from God to serve the Church and its people as a priest. To learn more about vocations to the priesthood and the discernment process visit the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Vocations website, thinkpriest.org.
VOCATIONS TO RELIGIOUS LIFE
Religious Life is a vocation in which members live in a community with a shared apostolate (or mission), charism (the particular expression of the community’s life, the community’s “culture”), and spirituality.
FRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM
The Mission of Friends of the Bridegroom is to renew the Church through the healing, renewal, and expansion of women’s religious life in America. Visit their website, renewreligious.org, to find vocation resources as well as information on building a culture of vocations, whatever your role in the Church.
THE SERRA CLUB
The St. Robert Community Room is the new home for Serra Club of Milwaukee meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7pm. The Mission of Serra International is to foster and affirm vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. Serrans are lay Catholics – men and women of all ages and from all walks of life – dedicated to promote and foster vocations. Learn more at www.serraus.org
To learn more or to join, please contact Serra Club of Milwaukee President Henry Paul at henry@henrypaulmilwaukee.com
Please check out our resource table in the back of church!
