discernment

In St. Joseph, 37 catechumens and candidates were welcomed into the Church in the last 12 years — including the 11 welcomed this year by the Benedictine Catholic Communities ACC.

From a Christian standpoint, perhaps no component of our baptismal mission is more important or urgent today than our duty to help young people discern their vocation in life.

Jean-Claude Duncan was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Cloud. He said of his faith journey, “My story might be atypical, but it is nothing in comparison to the work of God in the lives of each of us every day. Conversion is the process of trust we all must live daily.”

Miara Cash grew up attending St. John Church in Foley with her family. She has spent the last three years formally discerning her vocation as a consecrated virgin.

Deacon Lorenzo Sánchez Rodríguez was ordained a permanent deacon in 2022 after graduating from the Emmaus Institute.

Founded in 1935, the Serra Club is mostly a lay organization whose focus is to foster and affirm vocations to the priesthood and to consecrated religious life in the Catholic Church.

What Francis has done, Ivereigh argued, is reconnect the church with grace and with the Holy Spirit.

The final document for the continental stage from North America, along with the contributions of the six other continental assemblies, will form the basis of the “instrumentum laboris,” or working document, to be released by the general secretariat in June 2023.