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VOCATIONS


Department of Vocations, Diocese of Duluth

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UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS


(Includes materials for educators and youth leaders)


USCCB'S Vocations Video, Fishers of Men

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WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS MESSAGES


From Pope Benedict XVI

From Pope John Paul II

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EncouragePriests.org
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Vocations: Keeping the Faith Alive Video
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Books

The Joy of Being a Priest: Following the Cure of Ars by Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn

Many Are Called: Rediscovering the Glory of the Priesthood by Dr. Scott Hahn

The Grace of Ars: Reflections on the Life and Spirituality of St. John Vianney by Fr. Frederick Miller

Sharing Christ's Priesthood: A Bible Study for Catholics by Mike Aquilina

The Cure D'Ars : St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney by Abbe Francois Trochu

Sermons of the Cure of Ars

The Cure D'Ars Today: St John Vianney by Fr. George Rutler

A Priest Forever: The Life of Father Eugene Hamilton by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR

Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism by Douglas Brinkley

Preists for the Third Millenium by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan

The Priest is Not His Own by Archbishop Fulton Sheen 

Christ: The Ideal of the Priest by Blessed Columba Marmion

The Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celbacy by Fr. Christian Cochini, SJ

From Slave to Priest: The Inspirational Story of Fr. Augustine Tolton by Sr. Caroline Hemesath

More books on the Priesthood and Priests from Ignatius Press

Movies and Music from Ignatius Press 

Second Vatican documents

Optatum totius (Decree on Priestly Training)»

Presbyterorum ordinis (Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests)»

Perfectae Caritatis (Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life

Papal documents

Sacerdotalis coelibatus, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on priestly celibacy»

Pastores Dabo Vobis, Pope John Paul II’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the formation of priests»

Veritatis splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”), Pope John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical on the foundations of moral theology»

Ordinatio sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II’s 1994 apostolic letter on reserving priestly ordination to men alone»

Vita consacrata, Pope John Paul II’s 1996 post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the consecrated life and its mission in the Church and in the world»


Books for children

The Cure of Ars: The Story of Saint John Vianney, Patron Saint of Parish Priests
by Mary Fabyan Wyndeatt

The Cure of Ars: The Priest Who Out-Talked the Devil by Milton Lomask

John Mary Vianney: The Holy Cure of Ars by Sophie de Mullenheim 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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