Vocations

Discovering Your Calling

Access these recommended resources for information on discovering your calling. Website Links Vocations Online, Des Moines Diocese Office of Vocations Vocation Boom For Your Vocation.org Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University Discernment Retreats, Institute on Religious Life Discernment, Peter Kreeft Religious Orders for Women Religious Orders for Men Vocation Discernment for Teens  Read More →

Marriage and Family Life

The family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of husband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. Its first task is to live with fidelity the reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic community of persons. (Pope John Paul II) Website Links Catholic Parenting CatholicMom.com Dads.org Christian Fatherhood Emotional Virtue FamilyCatechism.com Meg... Read More

Faith and Professional Life

Access these recommended resources for information on combining faith and professional life. Website Links Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty Business Ethics at Catholic University Catholic Athletes Catholic Business Journal Catholic Medical Association Catholic Psychotherapy Association Catholic Social Workers National Association Legatus – Catholics in the Marketplace Legatus... Read More

The Sacrament of Holy Orders

The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each... Read More

The Sacrament of Marriage

Marriage is an icon of the Trinity. The child is a bridge connecting mother to father, so the three become one flesh…And here the bridge is formed from the substance of each! That is why Scripture does not say, ‘They shall be one flesh.’ But they shall be joined together ‘into one flesh,’ namely the child. But suppose there is no child; do they then remain two and not one? No: their intercourse... Read More