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Complete this online survey and receive instant results that point to your gifts in leadership, relationship, and spirituality.  A very good tool for vocation discernment.

How Do I Hear God's Call
In My Life?

Vocation comes from a Latin word meaning “calling”.  Usually when we hear the word vocation, we think only of priests and religious.  However, every single person in the world is called by God to love and serve Him.  There are four types of vocations:  priesthood, religious life, marriage and single life.  All of these vocations are ways in which we reach heaven.

The key to finding our vocation is prayer.  Our world is full of distractions—TV, internet, cell phones, texting, IPods, commercials, Twitter, etc.  Very few people take the time to pray in silence every day because we might be afraid silence.  We encounter God and who we really are in the eyes of God in the silence and this might frighten us.  However, it is in this silence that the Lord speaks directly to our hearts.

So if your heart is restless and you are trying to find your way in life, take time to pray.  Find a church or adoration chapel and take some time in silence with the Lord.

Other recommendations include attending daily Mass, going to confession, reading the Gospels, praying the rosary, finding a spiritual director, reading the spiritual classics and hanging around good people who support your faith life.

If you are thinking about priesthood, I would encourage you to take part in some of the events we offer in the Diocese of Joliet.  You are not alone in searching for your calling by God.

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TOTUS TUUS

Totus Tuus is a Catholic youth program dedicated to sharing the Gospel and promoting the Catholic faith through catechesis, evangelization, Christian witness, and Eucharistic worship. The goal of Totus Tuus is to help young people grow in the understanding of, and strengthen their faith in, Jesus Christ. It is only by establishing a real and personal relationship with Him that we can be led to the love of the Father in the Spirit and so be made sharers in the life of the Holy Trinity. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me" (John 4:16). Totus Tuus strives to bring our faith to life by creating a balance between knowledge of the meaning of the Sacraments and an authentic Sacramental life.

Totus Tuus seeks to foster openness to vocations in the young people we serve as well as among the teachers. This is accomplished by placing special emphasis on the importance and necessity of prayer, Eucharistic devotion, and Marian devotion, in addition to catechetical instruction and formation in the Catholic faith.

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Vocation FAQs
• FAQs for College Seminary  
• FAQs for Older Priestly Vocations

Scripture Passages on Discernment, Vocations, Call, and Priesthood

Eucharistic Adoration for Vocations

• Sign-up for Eucharistic Adoration at vocation.com

• Traveling Vocation Monstrance 

• Prayer Service for Vocations (presider edition)
• Prayer Service for Vocations (participant edition)
• Holy Hour for Priests & Priestly Vocations
   

For Vocation Directors

• NCDVD Website

• NRVC Website

• NCCV Website
  
  Other Discernment Opportunities
   

  

  JAVA Joliet Area

  Vocation Association

   

With so many options, it's not easy to discern the best path to live out your Christian calling. Vocation Match can help you narrow your search. You'll be asked a series of questions that will help you gain insight into your vocation and help us match you with compatible religious organizations.  Visit www.vocationmatch.com

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Prayer For Vocations

 Gracious and loving God, help the
men and women of our parish to hear the
call to serve in the Diocese of Joliet.

Our needs are great and our people
thirst for your presence.

Open the hearts of many.  Raise up
faithful servants of the Gospel - dedicated,
holy priests, sisters, brothers and deacons,
who will spend themselves for your people and their needs.

Bless all of our married couples with a rich faith and children that desire to serve you.

Bless those who are serving now
with courage and perseverance.
Grant that many will be inspired by their
example and faith.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Serra's objectives are to foster and promote vocations to the Catholic priesthood and religious life, and to encourage its members to fulfill their own Christian vocations of service.
Encouraging and affirming vocations to the priesthood and religious life through
prayer and active fellowship since 1958.

For more information on Serra Club of DuPage please go to the link below:

http://www.serradupage.org/