If you have a desire to join us in building a culture of vocations
If you have a love of the priesthood, religiouse & consecrated life become a vocation apostle and make a difference in the Church and in the world.
A Vocation Apostle is an apostolic missionary who commits to building a culture of vocations through prayer and action.
If you have a desire to join us in building a culture of vocations
If you have a love of the priesthood, religiouse & consecrated life become a vocation apostle and make a difference in the Church and in the world.
A Vocation Apostle is an apostolic missionary who commits to building a culture of vocations through prayer and action.
Building a culture of Vocations
The Vocation Apostle is one who prays and acts as a direct response to the crisis in the Church, declining Mass attendance, declining clergy and religious vocations and the attacks on the family and Holy marriages. Vocation Apostles are Missionary Disciples whose “speciality” is in vocation work, prayinf for, teaching inviting and encouraging all people to discover their vocation.
“Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transferred by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.” Romans 12:3″
Commitment Card and Invocations for Priests and Consecrated Men and Women
About
A Vocation Apostle and its associated network (Vocation Action Network) exists to unite all the faithful in prayer, to be formed and sent into the world in response to Jesus’s request “ask the Master of the Harvest to send out laborers for His harvest.”(Matthew 9:37-38) It is a direct response to the continuing challenge acknowledged by Jesus, the harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few. It is a missionary impulse arising from the desire of the heart.
Desire in the heart
Every baptized person, by the nature of their baptism, has been configured to Christ by an indelible spiritual mark. (CCC 1272) The desire of the heart of ALL baptized persons is to live out their baptismal call, a vocation to follow Christ, and to make his message of salvation present in the world. A Vocation Apostle is one whose deepest desire is to make known to all people that God has chosen them for a deep happiness which can be experienced when they live out the specific work of God (their vocation) to make the Kingdom of God present wherever they are.
Connect with Community
All the baptized have become “living stones” to be “built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood.” By Baptism they are connected to a community of believers and to the head of the Church, Jesus Christ. They no longer belong to themselves, but to Him and are nourished and are fed by the Word of God, His real presence in the Eucharist (the breaking of the Bread), the prayers (the Liturgy) and the Community of believers (his disciples). Vocation Apostles actively connect, through prayer and action, with other vocation apostles to be fed and sent into the world to bring the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ and living out their vocation.
Grow in the church
Vocation Apostles are missionary disciples who are committed to living a deep intimacy with our Lord Jesus Christ, enjoy authentic friendships and are perfectly clear that ALL baptized believers are called to Holiness through their personal vocation and communicate this message with conviction and clarity. (Making of Missionary Disciples – Curtis Martin)
Personal Holiness (lumen gentium)
Redeeming Cross Vocation Apostle
Jesus taught that all his followers are called to the holiness of life. “..so be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48) His salvific mission culminated by His sending of the Spirit of Truth to the baptized, so that they all could glorify Him by listening inwardly to the Holy Spirit, guided by the Church, to love God with their entire heart, soul, mind and strength and love one another as Christ loves them.
The Holy Spirit, the inward dwelling of God in the baptized, is the sanctifier. The followers of Christ are called by God not because of what they do, but according to His purpose (vocation) and grace. Because they share in Christ’s divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). In this way they are being made holy by living their Vocation (Big V) and further being sanctified in the particular vocation (little v) they are called to live out. Listening to the Holy Spirit in personal prayer, praying before the Real Presence of God (Eucharistic Adoration), participating in regular Spiritual direction and sacramental Confession, assists the individual to stay on the narrow path in life which leads one to a deep and abiding happiness which comes ONLY through communion with God.
What is God's will for me?
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thes. 4:3)
The will of God is for all to be one with Jesus as the head. In order to be united with God, we must be sanctified (made holy). Our vocation is the fodder which assists in this sanctification. Whether it is the holy priesthood, consecrated life or lay life, the Grace provided by living out our vocation in union with Christ provides the material for which one is made Holy. Vocation Apostles assist others to personally begin the process of discernment of the will of God in their life by offering their specific prayers and works of charity for others.
Jesus’ prayer to the Father for His disciples is for all the baptized. “ Consecrate them in the truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth. “I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.”
A Vocation Apostle responds to Jesus’s prayer to the Father and provides the world a convincing sign of the truth of God’s love and mercy for ALL people.