►11/3/2007 - Men Religious
Society of Divine Word priest is present for college Catholics
Florida Catholic
Father Stephan Brown, Society of the Divine Word, is director of university ministry at
Saint Leo University, a Catholic school in St. Leo. He has served 15 years in parish ministry in Indianapolis, St. Louis and California. Last summer, he went on sabbatical to discern what God wanted him to do next.
►11/1/2007 - Men Religious
Franciscan priest shares his vocation story in last concert before cloister
The Catholic Moment
Father Dean majored in classical guitar at DePaul University, and then transferred to the
Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. There he sang in the choir and met musical influence John Michael Talbot, whose “inspiring melodies accompanied me through my entire conversion and vocational discernment,” Father Dean said.
Maryknoll priest brings AIDS relief to Kenyan slum
10/31/2007 - VOA News
In the Kenyan capital Nairobi lives a
Maryknoll priest named Father Ed Phillips. For the past 14 years, Phillips has tended to the sick in one of the world's largest slums and conducted groundbreaking, but unheralded,
research on AIDS. Nick Wadhams has the story for VOA
Monasticism and Evangelicals
10/30/2007 - Breakpoint
Be it Baptists, Presbyterians, or Pentecostals, evangelicals of all stripes can be found flitting around the ancient pathways of the Franciscan, Dominican, and Benedictine orders. What’s the attraction? I decided to investigate. It seems the frenzied and the frenetic are finding stillness and order; the alienated are discovering the richness of belonging; and the non-committal are jumping headlong into the freedom of vows.
Claretian order welcomes new priest at 61
10/25/2007 - The Georgia Bulletin
A former advertising executive had earned the accolades and awards that come with a successful career and said he looked forward to leading “a life of leisure, but God had other plans.” Those plans came to a climax Wednesday, Oct. 17, when the Claretian deacon was ordained to the priesthood.
A journey of faith from MTV to the priesthood
10/20/2007 - Busted Halo
In New York City while directing television shows for MTV and HBO, Dave Dwyer pondered a vocation to the priesthood. With a young adult group from Long Island, he went to Denver in 1993 for World Youth Day with Pope John Paul II. Through that powerful experience, he heard the call more clearly. With the
Paulists, Dwyer finds a religious community where he can integrate the skills he learned in broadcast media.
Woodworking as a means of continuous prayer
10/18/2007 - Catholic Online
Teodoro Brovelli entered Carmel in March 1997 and made his Solemn Profession on October 7, 2006 at the Carmine in Florence, Italy. From the time he was 14 years old, he studied furniture restoration "as working with wood has always been my passion," he said. "I worked eight years as a framer." Now Teodoro is in the formation program at San Martino ai Monti in Rome, in the first year of theology. "In my free time, I try to work as carpenter and factotum in the house."
Dealing with death is lifeblood of Iowa monks
10/9/2007 - Chicago Tribune
New Melleray Abbey, a Trappist monastery just west of the Mississippi River, life is all about death and the fervent belief in resurrection. From the time many of the 32 monks there rise before dawn until the hour they retire in their cloistered dormitories, their day is punctuated by prayers, psalms and mostly pine boxes that pay the bills.
Glenmary priest exposes coal-extraction devestation
10/7/2007 - St. Anthony Messenger
Glenmary Father John Rausch, director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia
, has been leading tours for sever
al years to call attention to a devastating method of coal extraction called mountaintop removal.
Divining God's will
10/5/2007 - The Columbus Dispatch
They struggle with the difference between what they want and what God wants for them. They often face parents who don't understand why they'd give up high-paying jobs and children, and friends who can't believe they'd give up sex. Still, these young Catholics have a fervent desire to figure out God's call and then answer it. Discernment is not a formal process, but a personal exploration of where they can best serve God. Young Catholics do this through prayer, researching the different choices and trying to stay open-minded.
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Franciscan Friars feature the "Spiritual Toolbox" for men discerning religious life
10/4/2007 - PR Leap
Franciscan Friars of the Assumption BVM Province’s “Spiritual Toolbox” for men discerning religious life. The Franciscan Friars of the Assumption BVM Province introduce the “Spiritual Toolbox”, an online vocation resource designed for men, on their website http://www.franciscan-friars.org/
