These were followed by many more vocations to the religious life and to the priesthood. |
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Children were sent to college and frequently went on to pursue professional vocations, such as law, education, or medicine. |
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It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and, like many other orders, is experiencing a serious decline in vocations. |
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While monastic vocations decline, the number of monastic lay affiliates, or oblates, grows. |
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The friars lived by begging, mostly in towns, where they were best placed to engage in their principal vocations, pastoral work and preaching. |
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It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and is experiencing a serious decline in vocations. |
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The proliferation of vocations requires the building of novitiates, seminaries and monasteries. |
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The Augustinians are now withdrawing from Ballyhaunis, they say, because of the ageing profile of their priests and the lack of vocations. |
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He would have to have particular care and concern for his priests and for promoting vocations. |
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The decline in vocations, which began under Pius XII, has not been reversed and there is now one seminarist for every twelve priests. |
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The boys, most illiterate, are shown pictures illustrating the choice of vocations on offer, including masonry, weaving and bee-keeping. |
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In other societies in Oceania, vocations are declining to the extent that serious difficulties are foreseen for the future. |
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In them the various vocations carry out a service for achieving a culture of communion. |
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The time spent in the association influences the volunteers and often gives rise to vocations. |
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The number of vocations is not always a sign of the evangelical witness of our lives. |
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More young people are delaying their careers or vocations by staying in school longer. |
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Emmanuel d'Alzon invites us to work with passion and disinterestedness at fostering vocations for the service of the Church. |
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May this account serve as an insight into what has cultivated at least one and no doubt many vocations. |
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It was considered best to separate the holy callings of the monk and the nun, vocations close to God, from everyday maintenance in medieval fiefdoms. |
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It was observed too, that while some religious congregations even-handedly promoted vocations to the vowed life and the laity, this was not universal. |
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A Church is alive to the extent to which its expression of the different vocations is rich and varied. |
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God will raise up vocations in our Church where our deepest gladness meets the needs of the world. |
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On the contrary, these things took on their nobility and their splendor by virtue of their character as our attempts to respond faithfully to our callings or vocations. |
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The most admired vocations are manual workers such as cook or driver. |
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Obvious identification with the parent who died, e.g., wearing their clothes, becoming interested in their vocations and avocations was most frequent in this age group. |
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They hoped for Jean Marie to become a priest, and his sister and brother already had vocations as a missionary nun and priest respectively, both working in South America. |
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It is this kind of clear thinking about the Church that might provide some solid foundation for our thoughts about vocations in the Church today. |
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A boarding school was set up for girls and it was also possible to start the period of postulancy and the noviciate for the new vocations. |
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Belonging to the Lasallian Family should be a source of strength and balance that nourishes all Lasallian vocations. |
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Watch over our children and cause many vocations to the priestly and religious vocations to arise among them. |
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His invitation was duly accepted and so it was that only from 1992 did we begin to take our first steps in recruiting Ethiopian vocations. |
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The undergrad major in which it is most common is theology and religious vocations, where 21 per cent of couples had the same major. |
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After his presbyteral ordination in 1989 he has worked as formator in the novitiate of Congo, as provincial secretary and director of vocations. |
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This is a typical aspect of newness, a sign of the times of the pastoral care of vocations at the end of the millennium. |
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The different vocations operate for the growth of the body of Christ and of his mission in the world. |
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How must we react prophetically to the consequences of the decrease in religious vocations? |
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May he send us vocations that can perpetuate his work for days without end and that our life may glorify him always. |
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The whole of pastoral work for vocations is constructed on this elementary catechesis of the meaning of life. |
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It underpins all vocations, whether they be marriage, single or religious life, or priesthood. |
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Consecrated persons especially are called to promote the culture of vocations in schools. |
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This is like an ulterior contrast that increases the complexity of this historical season, with a negative impact at the level of vocations. |
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The first is the ongoing and urgent need to encourage vocations to the consecrated life and the ordained ministries. |
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In our contacts with the families of our students, we encourage parents to pray for vocations and to create in their homes a favourable climate for the birth and development of priestly and religious vocations. |
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Outside of vigorous efforts in the parishes and schools to foster and promote vocations, the prevailing sentiment in society seems to regard religious life as quaint and a throwback to less enlightened times. |
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Malia Petelo go in peace and pray for the life of our Diocese and for our islands that have such a need for the peace of God, for the youth and for vocations. |
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On the contrary, these living movements give life to the Franciscan charism and spirituality, providing fertile ground where consecrated Franciscan vocations may burgeon and flourish. |
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While drudging away in a dry cleaners, Tommo has a brainwave: by half-inching various outfits, he can test-drive possible vocations while also charming the ladies. |
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We find ourselves caught up in a vicious circle: the fewness of vocations is a source of discouragement and confusion: discouraged and confused Brothers do not attract vocations. |
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Increasingly these days in various parts of the world, Brothers and Marist laymen and laywomen are sharing their ideas and love for their vocations round the table. |
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In the eighteenth century, religious vocations become scarcer and commendatory Abbots requiring more and more revenue and profits, the number of monasteries in general declined. |
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The province is able to recognize its own strengths and shortcomings and, at the same time, is always considering new projects instead of merely waiting for new vocations. |
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The educational community expresses the variety and beauty of the various vocations and the fruitfulness at educational and pedagogical level that this contributes to the life of scholastic institutions. |
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New vocations are coming from new life situations, going from converts from atheism and agnosticism to those who, from a vague postmodernity, feel a profound link with life lived in common and the love of God. |
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In any case, this is about understanding once more the direction which God, the Lord of history, is giving to our history and also to the rich history of vocations in Europe at today's decisive crossroad. |
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Above all, it will seek to marry theological reflection and pastoral praxis, theory and pedagogical experience, in order to provide a concrete and practical help to those working in vocations promotion. |
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And if we are chided for favoring religious vocations too much, our answer should be that our sole regret is that we have not favored them enough. |
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An essential presupposition for discerning these vocations is, first and foremost, to be aware of the nature and mission of that state of life in the Church. |
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Demands for communion have offered consecrated persons the chance to rediscover the mutual relationship with the other vocations in the people of God. |
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The vocations promoter, every teacher in the faith, must not be afraid of proposing courageous choices and total giving, even if these are difficult and not in conformity to the mentality of the century. |
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I am convinced that, instead of lamenting the small number of vocations, which in many places are still declining, we should be more preoccupied with the quality of our life and mission. |
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It is normal for us to recommend the vocations which the Lord has bestowed on us: they are not for us but for the service the Church and the world. |
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His vocations included artist, teacher and dealing in real estate. |
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With regard to vocations, sometimes people come to us because they're just looking for an education, and there may not be much of a vocation there. |
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From our residence in the major seminary it would have been counterproductive for us to have profited of our presence to recruit our own vocations. |
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The dearth of religious vocations, estrangement from the teaching apostolate, the attraction of alternative forms of apostolate seemingly more gratifying. |
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By avoiding both confrontation and homologation, the reciprocity of vocations seems to be a particularly fertile prospect for enriching the ecclesial value of educational communities. |
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The acknowledgement of the many forms of vocations in the Church gives a new meaning to the presence of consecrated persons in the field of scholastic education. |
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Further, a transfer into another culture at this particular moment involves the risk of accepting false vocations and of not perceiving what may be false motivations. |
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As you well know, the matter of vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life is of great concern to us all, and we are praying that much good will come from this important Congress. |
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Aware of the importance of publications for attracting vocations and funding, Arnold started a printing press just four months after the inauguration of the house. |
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Before entering the Congregation she was a teacher and catechist, these were the two great vocations that Chantal persued throughout her forty-two years of consecration in the service to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. |
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Here, too, we come from experiences and conceptions which, in the past, ran the risk of marginalising pastoral work for vocations in some way, considering it as less important. |
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A fulfilled, responsible and dynamic catechist, working enthusiastically and joyfully in the tasks assigned appreciated and properly remunerated, is the best promoter of other vocations. |
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And it is interesting to note that those same Institutes that have preserved or chosen a tenor of life that is often very austere and which in any case are faithful to the Gospel lived «sine glossa», abound in vocations. |
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Article 10 of the Constitution says that the State guarantees the protection of childhood, watches over children and young people and provides them with suitable conditions in which to develop their vocations. |
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In the absence of clear legislation, social and health services tend to become unduly subject to competition rules, to the detriment of their specific vocations. |
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In other countries there not many vocations but there is a regular inflow. |
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One of the dean's roles is to encourage and foster vocations to the Church of England priesthood. |
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Some simplistically attribute diminishing vocations to the fact that many sisters have left the classroom to engage in other apostolates. |
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