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Sister Theodora Hawksley talks with other sisters.
Photo courtesy of Congregation of Jesus
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Panelists at the March 2017 Brothers Symposium discuss the vocation to be a Catholic brother.
Photo by Friar Matt Hindelang, O.F.M. Cap.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
----Julian of Norwich
The vow of poverty demands creative approaches to building a wardrobe. Sister Julia Walsh, F.S.P.A. takes part in the convent clothing exchange.
Photo courtesy of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
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Sister Maria Antonia Aranda, I.H.M. at St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church in Juarez, Mexico, where she works with migrants.
Photo: Lily Moore-Eissenberg/Pulitzer Center.
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Faculty David Alexander (left) talks with student residents as they enjoy a formal dinner and hear professors talk about their experiences during the Discernment Dinner in the Whitney Study Lounge on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer)
The Diocese of Rockford Vocations Office held the first annual Discernment Day for men between the ages of 16-35 who may be considering the priesthood.
The National Pre- Synodal Assembly took place on Saturday 18 June 2022 in Athlone and Clonmacnoise
Delegates from the 26 dioceses on the island of Ireland; Religious Congregations; representatives from other Catholic groups and lay ecclesial associations; members of the clergy; members of the Synodal Pathway Steering Committee and Task Group.
In March 2021, the Bishops’ Conference announced a synodal pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland, leading to the organisation of a national synodal assembly. A five-year timeline is envisaged for this work comprised of two phases:
(i)a two-year phase of listening and discernment, and;
(ii)followed by a three-year phase of planning and implementation
The initial two-year phase coincides with the Universal Synod on Synodality announced by Pope Francis and taking place from 2021-2023 and so the listening work undertaken in Ireland for the Universal Synod is integrated with the preparations for Ireland’s national Synodal Pathway. Tomorrow’s National Pre-Synodal Assembly will see diocesan delegates, and other participating groups, gathering together to prepare the national synthesis, which will be sent to the Vatican to feed into the Universal Synod.
Photo: John McElroy
New sisters, brothers, and priests are trending slightly younger than the people who joined 10 years before them.
Photo courtesy of Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, In.
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A sign explaining the definition of Discernment on display as student residents enjoy a formal dinner and hear professors talk about their experiences during the Discernment Dinner in the Whitney Study Lounge on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer)
June 18, 2019 - Bishop Gregory Parkes presented 14 people with a Certificate in Lay Leadership Ministry. Eleven parishes were represented in the group this year. The formation process to be commissioned is one year of Discernment and three years of Academic and Spiritual Preparation.
The LPMI program provides an integrated process to prepare Catholics to offer their unique gifts in service to the local Church by forming them spiritually, intellectually, and pastorally. Learn more here: www.dosp.org/lpmi/.
Father Ponchie Vásquez, O.F.M. repairs the cross on top of Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine in the village of Comobabi, Arizona.
Photo by Peter Jordan.
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Lord my God, are the day and minutes expendable to you? Is your glory so great that you can create something so beautiful as the sunrise that last only minutes and will never be seen again? Are you so mighty that you can create nebula, galaxies and stars that last for millions of years? Tell me how you judge the beauty that you have created and decide how long it is to last. Only you have the power and discernment to make such decisions and create such beauty. -Amen
A zeal for serving others is an important quality for a priest. Father Tony Vattaparambil, O.F.M.Conv. gives a young adult retreat.
Photo courtesy of the Conventual Franciscan Friars.
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Simple, everyday items can become sacred symbols that turn ordinary places into sacred spaces, say the Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, Iowa.
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Faculty Michelle Morris (center) talks to student residents that enjoy a formal dinner and hear professors talk about their experiences during the Discernment Dinner in the Whitney Study Lounge on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer)
Ana Luisa Jahuey (St. Cecelia), Andres Hernandez (St. Paul Tampa), and Christian Obando and Matthew Obando (Nativity) received scholarships from SEPI to attend the Young Latino Catholic Social Teaching Summer Program. This is one of two new summer programs for Hispanic young adults in the Southeast Region created in response to the priorities and needs identified in the Fifth National Encuentro of Hispanic/Latino Ministry and the Synod on Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment. The program aims to accompany young adults from the Southeast to respond faithfully to the call to be missionary disciples. Congratulations jóvenes and thanks for responding to the call to Courageously live the Gospel!
Li Qingxin was a preacher at a house church in China. Having believed in the Lord for many years, she always enthusiastically preached and worked for the Lord, watching and waiting for the Lord's coming and being raptured into the kingdom of heaven. In recent years, Li Qingxin saw all the denominations and sects are getting more and more desolate, while the Eastern Lightning continues to thrive and grow even under the frantic condemnation and persecution of the CCP government and the religious world. A growing number of good sheep and leading sheep from all sects and denominations have accepted the Eastern Lightning, which led her to self-reflect. Seeing the pastors and elders have not hesitated in making up rumors, condemning and discrediting the Church of Almighty God, and even colluding with the CCP government to arrest those who preach the Eastern Lightning, she felt what they did had deviated from the Lord's way, and realized that the one the CCP government and the religious world fanatically resist and condemn might actually be the true way and the appearance and work of the Lord. Hence, she, with several co-workers, decided to seek and investigate the Eastern Lightning. However, the pastors and elders did everything they could to prevent them from studying the true way. Through reading the words of Almighty God, listening to the fellowships from the preachers of the Church of Almighty God, they got discernment of the rumors and fallacies of the pastors and elders, saw through their vile motivations and malicious trickery of preventing believers from investigating the true way, and saw clearly the hypocritical true face of pastors and elders. Finally, Li Qingxin and others spoke out loudly to the religious pastors and elders that "Stay out of my business," and completely broke free from their constraints and bondage, and returned before God's throne.
Faculty Bob Sprague (center) talks with student residents that enjoy a formal dinner and hear professors talk about their experiences during the Discernment Dinner in the Whitney Study Lounge on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer)
June 18, 2019 - Bishop Gregory Parkes presented 14 people with a Certificate in Lay Leadership Ministry. Eleven parishes were represented in the group this year. The formation process to be commissioned is one year of Discernment and three years of Academic and Spiritual Preparation.
The LPMI program provides an integrated process to prepare Catholics to offer their unique gifts in service to the local Church by forming them spiritually, intellectually, and pastorally. Learn more here: www.dosp.org/lpmi/.
June 18, 2019 - Bishop Gregory Parkes presented 14 people with a Certificate in Lay Leadership Ministry. Eleven parishes were represented in the group this year. The formation process to be commissioned is one year of Discernment and three years of Academic and Spiritual Preparation.
The LPMI program provides an integrated process to prepare Catholics to offer their unique gifts in service to the local Church by forming them spiritually, intellectually, and pastorally. Learn more here: www.dosp.org/lpmi/.
June 18, 2019 - Bishop Gregory Parkes presented 14 people with a Certificate in Lay Leadership Ministry. Eleven parishes were represented in the group this year. The formation process to be commissioned is one year of Discernment and three years of Academic and Spiritual Preparation.
The LPMI program provides an integrated process to prepare Catholics to offer their unique gifts in service to the local Church by forming them spiritually, intellectually, and pastorally. Learn more here: www.dosp.org/lpmi/.
Perilous Is the Road to the Heavenly Kingdom
Zhong Xin is a preacher from a certain house church on the Chinese mainland. He has been a believer in the Lord for many years and has always suffered the arrests and persecution of the CCP. His hatred of the CCP runs deep, and he has long since seen clearly that the CCP is a satanic regime that sets itself against God. In recent years, he has seen the wild condemnation, arrests and persecution of the Eastern Lightning church by the CCP government and the religious world. What he found incredible, however, was that not only had the Eastern Lightning not been beaten, but on the contrary it had flourished more and more, and so Zhong Xin began to reconsider: Is the Eastern Lightning the manifestation and work of the Lord? He also discovered that the words used by the CCP and the religious world to condemn the Eastern Lightning were all rumors and lies and so, in order to get to the truth of the matter, he led his brothers and sisters to investigate the Eastern Lightning. Through listening to the fellowships of those giving testimony in The Church of Almighty God, the majority affirmed that the words expressed by Almighty God are the truth, that these words are the voice of God and that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus returned. But in the face of the CCP government's brutal repression and persecution of The Church of Almighty God, as well as the wild defiance and condemnation coming from the pastors and elders of the religious world, some people felt puzzled: The work of Almighty God is the true way, so why does it run up against the wild defiance and condemnation of the political power and the religious world? By reading the words of Almighty God, and by listening to the fellowships of those giving testimony in The Church of Almighty God, brothers and sisters understand the root cause of mankind's defiance of God, they see clearly why the road to heaven is so perilous, and they come to have discernment about the truth-hating, God-opposing essence of the CCP's satanic regime and the leaders of the religious world. People such as Zhong Xin have resolutely cast off the restraints and bonds of the influence of Satan, they have accepted Almighty God's work of the last days, and they have truly returned before the throne of God.
When he provides information about life as a Catholic brother or sister, Brother Herman Johnson, O.P.'s students are fascinated by the communal life and the frequent prayer.
Photo by Irving Johnson, III, courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana.
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Contemplative religious communities are often cloistered or partially cloistered—that is, they live separated from the rest of the world to be more focused on prayer.
Photo courtesy of Cistercian Nuns, Valley of Our Lady Monastery.
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The Queen of Peace Chapel at Caritas Christi, the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, reflects the sisters’ desire for integrated lives of mission, community, and prayer.
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Father Greg Boyle, S.J. signs his book, Tattoos on the Heart (Free Press, 2010), after his talk in Toledo, Ohio.
Photo by Carol Schuck Scheiber
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After Charles Back's young son, Jason, and a friend left the gate to a paddock open, a group of goats happily roamed into the vineyards and showed rare discernment by selecting some of the ripest berries from the choices vines. Thus was Goats do Roam, a single Rhone-style red blend, born! Today Goats do Roam has brown to a fully fledged wine company producing a range of playfully named, top quality wines.
The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose in Fremont, California, invite all to join them in their chapel for Taizé prayer.
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Daisy Rodriguez and other student residents enjoy a formal dinner and hear professors talk about their experiences during the Discernment Dinner in the Whitney Study Lounge on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Chico, Calif.
(Jason Halley/University Photographer)
Father Ponchie Vásquez, O.F.M. and members of his Franciscan community say grace before dinner.
Photo by Peter Jordan.
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