I recently created a quiz for my diocese’s vocations website… and the highest score thus far has been 64% correct. Can you beat this score? The first 10 people to get above 90% correct (put in your full name in the quiz) and post a comment in the forum section of this website [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!
Q.  Why don’t you do a lot of articles on specific religious communities, seminaries, and other institutions?
A.  Other vocations websites give plenty of coverage to popular communities, seminaries, and to lesser known ones as well.  This website is designed to give you tools for discernment so that you carefully learn who you [...]

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by Therese Ivers, JCL
Have you ever wondered what that prayer book priests carry around with them is?  Or have you heard about the Liturgy of the Hours, sometimes called the Breviary?  It is a 4 volume series containing the official prayer of the Catholic Church.  Drawing from the custom of the centuries, it contains the [...]

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Thanks to some volunteers, the forum is now open and ready for you to discuss matters pertaining to discerners.  To register for the forum, you will need the registration code, which will be changed from time to time to stop spam, and this code can be found HERE.  The link to the forum, called the [...]

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by Therese Ivers, JCL
In browsing the web, I came across the story of a lady who became a consecrated virgin living in the world.  Later, she joined a religious community, and is a solemnly professed member there.  While the vocation of consecrated virginity is certainly compatible with that of religious life (the Rite has two [...]

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