Washington D.C., Dec 10, 2009 / 00:05 am
National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in the U.S. Jan. 10-16 to help make vocations “everyone’s business.”
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, the chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, said the week provides parishes the opportunity to promote vocations through prayer and education.
“It is our responsibility to encourage young people to be generous in their response as they discern the possibility of a call to service in the Church. We must also ask parents, families and our parish communities to assist with this work, vocations are everyone’s business,” the cardinal said in a press release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
The Year for Priests, sponsored by the Vatican, continues through June 2010. Dioceses are highlighting the role of priests in diocesan newspapers, on web sites and with other events.