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  • GOD CALLS – an app from NOV designed to help you grow in faith, develop in discipleship and follow God’s call.

  • “Do your part in the work of Christ the Priest with genuine joy and love.” – The Rite of Ordination to the Priesthood

  • Vocation comes from a Latin word meaning “calling”. Usually when we hear the word vocation, we think of the priesthood. However, every single person in the world is called by God to love and serve Him…

  • The state of being single is what we’re all born into. For some people, the single state is their lifelong and stable response to the call of Christ.

  • Jesus calls many women and men to the vocation of marriage and being parents. Married couples promise to serve each other with love and to serve the whole Church. They enter into a life-long covenant of love.

  • Consecrated life is the Church’s way of referring to the wide range of opportunities for individuals to dedicate themselves to a life of prayer and service, often as sisters, nuns, brothers and monks.

  • Do not be afraid to accept this call. You will surely encounter difficulties and sacrifices, but you will be happy to serve, you will be witnesses of that joy that the world cannot give. – Pope John Paul II

Eleven Deacons Ordained at Oscott

St Mary’s College, Oscott was filled with joy on Saturday 29th June as eleven new deacons were appointed. His Grace, Archbishop Bernard Longley, led the Diaconate Ordinations in front of the deacons’ family, friends and supporters in a packed chapel.

The new deacons represent dioceses across the UK. Let us pray for the deacons, and that the Lord will continue to send labourers to the harvest. Please visit www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/news to read about some of the men who were ordained.

  • July 1, 2019
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The Path to Priesthood – Rome to Birmingham

Three deacons who studied in Rome at the Venerable English College stand on the threshold of the priesthood after seven years of formation. It’s a long journey with many twists and turns but in this conversation, John Waters interviews fellow priests-to-be Ryan Service and Marco Egawhary in this video as they prepare for a July Ordination to serve the people of the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

  • June 17, 2019
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World Youth Day @ Home

WYD@Home was celebrated at Alton Castle from 7th June and closed on 9th June – Pentecost Sunday. We were many young people, priests, bishops and religious who came together in fraternity to be renewed in the Holy Spirit, and reflect on themes taken up at World Youth Day in Panama 2019. It was an excellent opportunity to share and witness to our faith and joy in the Lord.

  • June 12, 2019
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European Vocations Service

The European Vocations Service, (EVS), part of the Conference of Bishops of Europe, met in Rome from the 4th – 7th June. We discussed how best to implement the outcomes of the recent synod on Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment, and were privileged to meet Pope Francis on the penultimate day.

Pope Francis welcomed us all warmly and gave us his prepared speech… and proceeded to address us with an impromptu message. Pope Francis believes that the Holy Spirit still calls people to lives of special consecration, and we should courageously cast out the nets, but always in the context of the wider Christian calling.  You can read the full message (both impromptu and prepared) here.

  • June 12, 2019
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Church must learn how to speak to young people, pope says

At a gathering of people doing vocations work in Europe, the pope said that too often when Catholics try to talk to young people about vocational discernment, “it’s as if we were speaking Esperanto to them, because they don’t understand a thing.”

Pope Francis said the church must help young people learn how “to dialogue with the Lord” and how to ask him, ‘What do you want from me?'”

To read the full article from The Tablet, please click here.

  • June 10, 2019
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First Religious Sister appointed as director of the National Office for Vocation

Sister Elaine Penrice has been appointed as Director of the National Office of Vocation. Bishop Terence Drainey, Chair of the Management Board of the National Office for Vocation, said he was delighted to be able to announce the appointment.

  • May 21, 2019
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