National Vocation Awareness Week: November 3-9, 2019
National Vocation Awareness Week is an annual celebration of vocations to consecrated life and to ordained priesthood and the place they have together with all others through their vocations to live the good news of the Gospel in service in the world. The week-long celebration was begun in 1976 as an initiative of the Catholic Bishops of the United States. Recently, and thankfully, the celebration had begun to “creep across the border” and is now finding a place in Canada.
In addition to celebration this event is a call through prayer and education to re-create awareness of the joy of consecrated life and priesthood in the Church and world. It is an invitation to young people to consider where God may be calling them in loving and fulfilling lives. It is also an invitation to each and all of us to renew our prayers for an increase in vocations to consecrated life and priesthood - that is, to lives of “living faith, living mercy, living joy and living beauty” for a world so in need of the hope and promise of Christ today.