Category: Vocations – Youth Conference

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Halifax-Yarmouth Vocations

Priestly Ordination of Fr. Patrick Salah
Fr. Craig Cameron

Hello, I am Fr. Craig Cameron, and I am privileged to be the designate of the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth in supporting young people in religious vocations, men and women who feel a call to serve our Lord in his Holy Church.

If you would like to discuss your consideration of a vocation to the priesthood, consecrated or religious life, please email me at ccameron@halifaxyarmouth.org

I hope and pray that 2024 will be filled with grace for our Archdiocese and will increase awareness of the gift of the holy vocations to our local Church. Please know that I and many faithful people are already praying for you. I look forward to speaking with you and supporting your vocational discernment. I remain yours in the Lord.

Vocations Contacts

Fr. Craig Cameron
Rector, Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica
Director of Vocations & Liturgy,
University Chaplain
ccameron@halifaxyarmouth.org

Maxine Brown
Vocations Advisor
mbrown@halifaxyarmouth.org

Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Vocations

Prayer for Vocations

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 myself.
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 my strength right to the end.
Amen

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Vocation Resources

Did you know that every diocese has an office for the promotion of vocations?

These vocations offices have a vocations director who is entrusted with helping men and women discern their particular vocations. Below you will find links to the Vocation’s Office websites for the dioceses that have attended the 2024 Steubenville Lone Star and of the Rockies Conference.

Some diocesan sites contain more information than others, but all have some way of contacting the office of vocations and learning more about the discernment process. If detailed on the site, the vocations director and his contact information are included below for your reference.

In addition to the diocesan vocations office links, the bottom of the page contains two links to assist with discerning men’s and women’s religious orders, which are rich with knowledge about consecrated religious life and the discernment process.

Dioceses

Diocese of Amarillo

Vocations Director: Fr. Gabriel Garcia
Email: frgabrielg@hotmail.com
Phone: (806) 935-5002
https://amarillovocations.org/

 

Diocese of Bismark

Vocations Director: Fr. Jordan Dosch
Email: jdosch@bismarckdiocese.com
Phone: (701) 204-7197
https://bismarckdiocese.com/vocations-1

Diocese of Cheyenne 

Vocations Director: Fr. Brian Hess
Email: bhess@dcwy.org
Phone: (307) 439-4368
https://dcwy.org/vocations

 

Diocese of Colorado Springs

Vocations Director: Fr. Kyle Ingels
Email: VocationsConcecratedLifeWWW@diocs.org
Phone: (719) 636-2345

Women’s Vocations Coordinator: Sr. Quynh Pham, FMA
Email: cscatholicyam@diocs.org
Phone: (719) 866-6448
https://www.diocs.org/Offices/Office-of-Vocations

 

Diocese of Corpus Christi

Vocations Director: Bob Cummings
Email: bcummings@diocesecc.org
Phone: (361) 693-6604
https://ccpriest.org/

 

Archdiocese of Denver

Vocations Director: Fr. Jason Wallace
Email: father.wallace@archden.org
Phone: (303) 722-4687
https://archden.org/vocations/

 

Diocese of Dodge City

Vocations Director: Fr. Wesley Schawe
Email: vocations@dcdiocese.org
Phone: (620) 227-1500
https://www.dcdiocese.org/vocations

 

Diocese of Fargo

Vocations Director: Fr. Kyle Metzger
Email: vocations@fargodiocese.org
Phone: (701) 356-7957
https://fargodiocese.net/vocations

 

Diocese of Gallup 

Vocations Director: Fr. Joshua Mayer
Email: frjmayer@dioceseofgallup.org
https://dioceseofgallup.org/ministries/office-of-vocations/

Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston 

Vocations Director: Fr. Richard McNeillie
Email: vocations@archgh.org
Phone: (713) 652-8239
https://houstonvocations.com/

 

Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas

Vocations Director: Fr. Dan Morris
Email: vocation@archkck.org
Phone: (913) 647-0303
https://archkck.org/vocations/home/

 

Diocese of La Crosse

Vocations Director: Fr. Nate Kuhn
Phone: (608) 791-2667
https://diolc.org/priesthood/

 

Diocese of Las Cruces 

Vocations Director: Fr. Ruben Romero
Email: vocations@rcdlc.org
Phone: (575) 523-7578
https://www.oldrcdlc.org/vocations

 

Diocese of Lincoln 

Vocations Director: Fr. Alec Sasse
Email: fr.alec-sasse@huskercatholic.com
Phone: (402) 310-1708
https://www.lincolndiocese.org/vocation

Diocese of Lubbock

Vocations Director: Fr. Jeremy Trull
Email: jtrull@catholiclubbock.org
Phone: (806) 792-3943 ext. 226
https://catholiclubbock.org/Vocations.html

 

Archdiocese of Oklahoma City

Vocations Director: Fr. James Wickersham
Email: james.wickersham@archokc.org
Phone: (405) 721-9351
https://okcvocations.com/

 

Archdiocese of Omaha

Vocations Director: Fr. Scott Schilmoeller
Email: vocations@archomaha.org
Phone: (402) 558-3100
https://omahavocations.org/

 

Diocese of Pueblo 

Vocations Director: Fr. Carl Wertin
Phone: (719) 544-9861 ext. 1114
https://www.diopueblo.org/vocations

 

Diocese of Rapid City 

Vocations Director: Fr. Mark McCormick
Email: mmccormick@diorc.org
Phone: (605) 343-3541 ext. 2241
https://www.rapidcitydiocese.org/vocations-2/

 

Diocese of Reno 

Email: vocations@catholicreno.org
Phone: (775) 326-9428
https://www.highdesertcatholic.org/vocations/

 

Diocese of Salt Lake City

Vocations Director: Fr. Joseph D. Delka
Phone: (801) 253-6031
https://www.dioslc.org/vocations

 

Diocese of San Angelo 

Vocations Director: Fr. Ryan Rojo
Email: vocation@sanangelodiocese.org
Phone: (325) 651-7500
https://sanangelodiocese.org/vocations-and-seminarians

 

Archdiocese of San Antonio

Vocations Director: Bishop Gary W. Janak
Associate Vocations Director: Sr. Ana Cecilia Montalvo Villanueva, FSpS
Email: vocations@archsa.org
Phone: (210) 735-0553
https://archsa.org/vocations/

 

Archdiocese of Santa Fe

Vocations Director: Fr. Adrian Sisneros
Email: vocation@sasfnm.org
Phone: (505) 831-8143
https://archdiosf.org/vocations

 

Diocese of Tulsa

Vocations Director: Fr. Duy Nguyen
Email: fr.duy.nguyen@dioceseoftulsa.org
Phone: (918) 884-4200
https://tulsavocations.com/

Diocese of Wichita

Vocations Director: Fr. Garett Burns
Phone: (316) 440-1714
https://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/vocations/

Discerning Consecrated Religious Life

Men’s Religious Orders

The Conference of Major Superiors of Men
The Conference of Major Superiors of Men provides resources to find men’s religious orders and promote vocations to religious life. These religious orders are located across the country and vary by charism and spirituality.
https://cmsm.org/

Women’s Religious Orders

The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious provides resources to find women’s religious orders and promote vocations to religious life. These religious orders are located across the country and vary by charism and spirituality.
https://cmswr.org/

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Do you have a Vocation?

Don’t think too hard…the answer is Yes!

Every single person was created by God and called by God…so we all have a calling. Some people are called to marriage, others to the single life, and some to serve God and his Church through the vocation of religious consecration (sisters and brothers), diaconate, or priesthood. 

How do we know what path God is calling us to follow?

We have to seek to HEAR God’s voice!

  • Hearing Starts by Listening – spend time daily in personal prayer and reading Scripture. Ten minutes and day will change your life. Try it!
  • Eucharistic Adoration and the Sacraments – spend time with Jesus in the Eucharist, attend Mass, and participate in confession, and he will reveal his plan for you.
  • Appointment with a Priest or Religious – get to see what the life of a priest, brother, or sister is about by talking to a real, live person…he or she won’t bite!
  • Retreat – go on a retreat or discernment weekend. You will learn more about yourself, and God will bless your openness!

 

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Priestly Discernment Program – Franciscan University

Is God calling you to consider becoming a priest?

Discern a possible vocation to the priesthood and/or religious life with other young men and receive preparation for seminary! Young men in the Priestly Discernment Program (PDP) at Franciscan University of Steubenville gain a firm foundation in the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Four Dimensions of Formation:

  1. Intellectual Formation
  2. Human Formation
  3. Spiritual Formation
  4. Pastoral Formation

Here at Franciscan, we add a fifth dimension, dedicated to Fraternal Formation, for the building up of community life and brotherhood.

Log on to our website or visit our Facebook page for more Information.
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Servants of Christ Jesus

Meet the Servants of Christ Jesus in the Marketplace at their booth!

Servants of Christ Jesus (scjesus.org)

Vision
With Zeal for a New Evangelization, we desire to help souls respond to Jesus by means of preaching, teaching, spiritual exercises, administration of the Sacraments, and assistance to the poor.

When Jesus is our first love, we find ourselves beloved lovers of God.

We are a missionary men’s community, helping souls meet and love Jesus as Lord.
We practice prayerful and penitential chastity, poverty and obedience in the footsteps of our Savior. We are inspired by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Ignatius Loyola in fraternity and apostolic generosity.
We evangelize and disciple youth, preach retreats, train missionaries, and provide spiritual direction. We live and work in Denver, and we are on mission wherever He calls us.
We die to ourselves, to live for Christ and for His Bride, the Holy Catholic Church.

We are the Servants of Christ Jesus.

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Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco

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Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco » Western Province (salesiansisterswest.org)

We, the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, dedicate ourselves completely to young people, the poor, and women at risk.  Together with our collaborators and benefactors, we are responding to the profound hopes of today’s youth through education and evangelization. True to our mission of forming good Christians and honest citizens, we have made a positive impact in society and are blazing a path for the future. 

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Sisters of Charity

Visit the Sisters of Charity in the Marketplace at their booth!

Our Sisters come from different family, education, work and ethnic backgrounds. Our current ministries range from healthcare to advocacy, from foreign missions to education, from social service to pastoral outreach.

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Diocese of Joliet Vocations


Every person has a unique calling from God, and the Vocations Office of the Diocese of Joliet works to help all people discern and flourish in their calling as a priest, religious, deacon or spouse. God speaks to all of us and has a specific purpose for each of our lives, and a vocation is his holy invitation to pursue a religious life using the gifts He has given us.

When one experiences the unique and personal love of Jesus, desires begin to grow within his/her heart. These desires grow over time and begin to direct the individual’s life. To discern, then, is to ‘separate’ this deep holy desire from the many other desires of life and choose to follow the voice of Jesus, the good shepherd.”

Diocese of Joliet

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Office of Vocations, Archdiocese of St. Louis

Vocation Office

Considering Giving Your Life to God?

Where do I start?

The process you will follow to answer this fundamental question is called discernment. Your vocation as a Christian will be the particular way you live the universal call to holiness. Through prayer, study, conversation with others and reflection, you will be able to discover God’s plan for you.

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Twitter: @stlvocations
Facebook: St. Louis Vocation Office