Vocation Spotlight: more vocation links

VOCATIONS

Here is a brief list of some links for information regarding vocation in the Church:

Vocations website for Archdiocese of Dubuque: www.dbqpriesthood.com
Vocations website for Archdiocese of Philadelphia: www.heedthecall.org
Vocations website for Diocese of Rockford, IL (includes profiles and vocation
stories of seminarians--see "meet our seminarians" link): www.rockvoc.org

Institute on Religious Life: www.religiouslife.com

Research different religious orders, find a personal match for your interests:
www.vocation-network.org
www.religiousministries.com
www.vocationplacement.org

Learn the lingo! Vocations glossaries (what is a "postulant"... a "friary"... a "charism," etc.?)
http://www.heedthecall.org/schoolvocab.html
http://religiouslife.com/glossary.phtml

A blog on vocations by a Dominican priest:
www.dominicanfriars.org

ARTICLES

“Priests Need to Ask Men to Consider the Priesthood”, Edward J. Burns http://www.usccb.org/vocations/articles/fishers.shtml

Contemplative Nuns See Boom in Vocations
http://ncregister.com/site/article/1807

Six Habits of Highly Effective Diocese
http://www.catholic.org/views/views_news.php?id=22805

Faith Facts: On priest shortage, parish clustering, etc. (CUF)
http://www.cuf.org/faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=163

Vocations and Visibility: Practical Ideas for Priests (CUF)
http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=712

Pope John Paul II: Biblical catechesis on vocations
http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=360

Pope John Paul II: Eucharist: Source of all vocations
http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=1232

SWALLOWED SCROLL POSTS ON VOCATIONS

Dominican nuns in Michigan reaping vocation harvest
http://swallowedscroll.blogspot.com/2007/01/
vocation-spotlight-dominican-nuns-in.html

What has my Church done--what have I done to promote vocations?
http://swallowedscroll.blogspot.com/2007/01/
vocation-spotlight-review-of.html

Will the Church ever ordain women priests?
http://swallowedscroll.blogspot.com/2007/01/
vocation-spotlight-will-church-ever.html

Is priestly celibacy biblical?
http://swallowedscroll.blogspot.com/2006/12/
vocation-spotlight-is-priestly.html

Where have all the monks and nuns gone?
http://swallowedscroll.blogspot.com/2006/08/
where-have-all-monks-and-nuns-gone.html

PUBLISHERS

LifeWork Press
http://lifeworkpress.stores.yahoo.net/

PRAYERS

Prayers for vocations in English (US Bishops)
http://www.usccb.org/vocations/prayereng.shtml