Vocations Sunday 2008!

You may have seen our posters in your church or school. You can now read the Holy Father's message for Vocations Sunday on this website plus read all the resources we have prepared for use in schools and parishes.

Click here to visit our Vocations Sunday Page!

The National Office for Vocation wishes you every blessing this Easter season.

Pilgrimage to Walsingham

The Annual National Vocations Pilgrimage to Walsingham takes place on Saturday June 21st 2008. A coach will be travelling from Westminster Cathedral in London at a cost of £15 per head. Too book a place please download the booking form here, print, complete and return to our office along with payment (details are on the form).

Catholic Gap Year

The Catholic Church has recently launched a new website to encourage young Catholics to consider spending their gap-year in a Church-run project. It is the first time that a U.K. religious denomination has collated and published its gap-year opportunities on a single ‘umbrella’ site, seeking to market ‘faith’ as key factor that young people should consider when choosing a gap-year.

The catholicgapyear.com website, a joint initiative between the Catholic Church’s Vocation and Youth offices, aims to provide young Catholics with information about how and where they can spend a gap-year in a faith environment.

Given that more and more young people are choosing to take a gap-year before going to university or into work, the Church is keen to encourage young Catholics to spend time volunteering in projects which will help develop their faith and provide them with opportunities for vocational discernment, as well as developing the skills that other forms of gap-year ordinarily provide. Projects that young Catholics can apply to join include: residential youth work, sharing a home with physically disabled people and even some projects abroad in less-developed parts of the world.

Visit the website at www.catholicgapyear.com

Free to Become - New Website for Vocations Group!

A new website for the Vocations Discernment Group. The group is for young Catholics aged 18 - 38 meeting regularly in central London and in Essex, for mutual support, prayer and teaching from guest speakers so as to grow in the maturity and freedom necessary to make good choices about jobs, relationships and vocational states of life.

www.free2become.org/

A new website for St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw.

Ushaw College was founded in Douai in 1568 and has been located in Durham since 1808. This year the college celebrates 440 years of forming seminarians and 200 years of being located in Durham.

www.ushaw.ac.uk/seminary/index.html

New Website for Allen Hall!

A new website has been launched for Allen Hall, the Seminary of the Diocese of Westminster. The new website, www.allenhall.org.uk provides information to men who are considering the Catholic priesthood and helps people understand the process of formation that takes place in the seminary. It also gives practical information about life at Allen Hall and information to those wishing to use the seminary facilities for conferences or accommodation.

Southwark Vocations Online Blog!

Southwark Vocations blog for promoting priesthood in the Archdiocese of Southwark is now live at www.southwarkvocations.blogspot.com Here you will find information about vocations activities in Southwark as well as information of interest to anyone who is interested in the Priestly Vocation.

This site was last updated on 8th April 2008

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