Vocations
vocation resources
Church Documents
I Will Give You Shepherds (Pastores Dabo Vobis): Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope JPII, March 25, 1996
The Priest and the Third Christian Millennium: Congregation for the Clergy, March 19, 1999
Directory for the Life and Ministry of Priests: Congregation for the Clergy, January 31, 1994
Directory For the Ministry and Life of Permanent Deacons (Directorium pro Ministerio et Vita Diaconorum Permanentium): Congregation of the Clergy, February 22, 1998
Consecrated Life (Vita Consecrata): Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1996
Instruction on the Contemplative Life and on the Enclosure of Nuns (Verbi Sponsa): Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life
Starting Afresh from Christ: A Renewed Commitment on Consecrated Life in the Third Millennium: Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life ©2002
The Lay Members of Christ's Faithful People (Christifideles Laici): Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope John Paul II, December 30, 1998
Instruction on Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful and the Sacred Ministry of Priests; August 13, 1997
A Pastoral Letter on Consultation in the Parish: Most Reverend John R. Keating, September 17, 1984
Handouts
Vocation Discernment
by Fr. Peter F. Ryan, S.J.
Worthy is the Lord: An Explanation of Cloistered Contemplative Life
by Sister Mary of the Trinity, O.P.
Web-Sites
Books
Priests for the Third Millennium
by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
Our Sunday Visitor © 2000; ISBN No. 0-87973-319-5
About Being a Priest
by Federico Suarez
Scepter Publishers, Inc. ©1996
ISBN No. 0-933932-88-X
What Does God Want? A Practical Guide To Making Decisions
by Michael Scanlan, T.O.R
Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ©1996
ISBN No. 0-87973-584-8
When God Asks for an Undivided Heart: Choosing Celibacy in Love & Freedom
by Andrew Apostolic, C.F.R.
Daughters of St. Paul ©1995
ISBN No. 0-8198-8272-0
Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for Sake the of the Kingdom
by Raiero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
Society of St. Paul ©1995
ISBN No. 0-8189-0745-2
Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
by Thomas Dubay, S.M
Ignatius Press ©2002; ISBN No. 1-56955-339-4
Could You Ever Become a Catholic Priest?
by Christopher J. Duquin & Lorene Hanley Duquin
Abba House ©1998
ISBN No. 0-8189-0816-5
Ordinary Suffering of Extraordinary Saints
by Vincent J. O'Malley, c.m.
Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. ©2000
ISBN No. 0-87973-893-6
For more information, please contact:
Reverend Brian G. Bashista,
Director of the Office of Vocations
200 N. Glebe Rd., Suite 901
Arlington, VA 22203
(703) 841-2514
Fax: (703) 842-4786
vocations@arlingtondiocese.org