National Vocation Awareness Week

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.

“Our vocation, that place to which we are called to give ourselves, is the field. It looks different for each of us depending on what God calls us to, but the treasure is always Christ.”

This year’s National Vocation Awareness Week allows me to highlight the remarkable health of the seminaries that form our future priests.

In honor of National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 5-11, The Visitor is featuring “snapshots” of the diocese’s newest seminarians, who share something about themselves and their vocational calling. Meet Steven Wielenberg.

In honor of National Vocation Awareness Week, Nov. 5-11, The Visitor is featuring “snapshots” of the diocese’s newest seminarians, who share something about themselves and their vocational calling. Meet Nathanial Daubner.

For this year’s commemoration of National Vocation Awareness Week, the Vocation Office picked the theme, “The Priesthood: Offering Hope and Healing.”

They are more than just tag lines — these words etched into seminary walls and onto seminarians’ hearts. Each carries its own character and challenges those preparing for leadership in the church to greater unity, service and charity.