World Day of Prayer for Vocations

World Day of Prayer for Vocations Mailings!

Please be on the lookout for our World Day of Prayer for Vocations Mailings going out to every parish in our diocese this week. It will include many creative ideas on how your parish can participate in this year's celebration. The purpose of World Day of Prayer for Vocations is to publicly fulfill the Lord's instruction to, "Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" (Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2). As a climax to a prayer that is continually offered throughout the Church, it affirms the primacy of faith and grace is all that concerns vocations to the priesthood and to the consecrated life. While appreciating all vocations, the Church concentrates its attention this day on vocations to the ordained ministries (priesthood and diaconate), consecrated life in all its forms (male and female religious life, societies of apostolic life, consecrated virginity), secular institutes in their diversity of services and membership, and to the missionary life.