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How to find a guide for your vocation adventure

🕔14. Jul 2025

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Artwork: Remember This by Loretta Roome

Praying with artwork

🕔15. Jul 2014

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What does “success” look like in discernment?

🕔14. Jul 2025

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¿Qué significa “éxito” en el discernimiento?

🕔15. Jul 2025

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Questions Catholics Ask: What are the different forms of prayer?

🕔16. Jul 2025

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Preguntas de los católicos:¿Cuáles son las diferentes formas de oración?

🕔16. Jul 2025

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Five reasons to pray the Liturgy of the Hours

🕔09. Jul 2024

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Brother Rafael Vargas, S.D.B.

Call stories to help you discern

🕔09. Jul 2024

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Cinq signes que la vie religieuse pourrait te convenir

🕔14. Aug 2013

Cherche ces poteaux indicateurs pendant que tu explores et pries à ta vocation.

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Gare aux bots et aux mauvais acteurs pendant que tu t’engages en ligne

🕔22. Jul 2024

Voici comment tirer le maximum de tes navigations confessionnelles sur le web—et comment éviter les distorsions et les divisions en ligne. Les rédacteurs de VISION s’entretiennent avec Dominic Sanfilippo.

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Embody your decisions

🕔10. Jul 2023

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Tune into your prayer life

🕔10. Jul 2023

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Du trafic à quatre voies sur le sentier spirituel

🕔09. Sep 2019

Réponds à notre questionnaire sur la spiritualité et découvre les quatre voies spirituelles fondamentales et apprends comment elles s’adressent à ton propre développement spirituel—et discernement de vocation.

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Man looks pensively out at a body of water

Dénouer le mystère de ton appel

🕔29. Sep 2022

Connaître « la volonté de Dieu » est rarement, si jamais, un processus nettement clair. C’est plutôt comme faire du vélo la nuit, quand tu ne vois que 500 pieds en avant de toi, et les distances successives s’illuminent seulement au fur et à mesure que tu avances.

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My portable prayer life

🕔13. Jul 2022

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Your mission awaits you! Pope Francis' message to young people

🕔14. Jan 2025

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Young man standing in road with his arms open wide

¡Tu misión te espera! Mensaje del Papa Francisco a los jóvenes

🕔18. Jul 2022

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Students play guitar in front of a statue of Saint Martin de Porres on the campus of Providence College, Rhode Island.

Sois un saint à ta façon

🕔09. Aug 2011

Toute personne est une création unique de Dieu et le chemin vers la sainteté est d’être fidèle à toi-même.

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Sister Carole Blazina, S.C. performs a blood pressure check.

Prayer set in motion

🕔12. Jul 2013

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Living the vow of celibacy

Celibacy quiz: Could I be a nun? Could I be a brother? Could I be a priest?

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Living the vow of celibacy

Cuestionario sobre celibato

🕔06. Jun 2012

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Friar Vito Martinez, O.F.M.Cap. shares a smile with his mother, Guadalupe Martinez, at his final vows ceremony

¿Vocación religiosa o familia?

🕔15. Jul 2021

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Friar Vito Martinez, O.F.M.Cap. shares a smile with his mother, Guadalupe Martinez, at his final vows ceremony

Religious vocation or family?

🕔23. Jul 2021

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Religious life today (infographic)

🕔19. Jul 2021

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La vida religiosa hoy (infografia)

🕔19. Jul 2021

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Ask God a question, you’ll get an answer

🕔08. Jul 2020

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La pregunta más peligrosa

🕔21. Aug 2023

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8 questions and answers to your prayers

🕔08. Jul 2020

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Sister Judy Zielinski, O.S.F. works with a crew filming murals in a church near Istanbul.

Un appel à l’intérieur d’un appel: Ta vocation et ta carrière

🕔12. Aug 2014

Le fait de devenir soeur, frère ou prêtre n’implique pas nécessairement l’abandon de ta carrière professionnelle. Non seulement cela, mais une vocation religieuse peut remanier ta carrière d’étonnantes manières.

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Do-it-yourself discernment retreat

🕔14. Jul 2015

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young man praying in a field

Retiro de discernimiento “hazlo tú mismo”

🕔07. Jun 2016

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Listening to the movement of God’s spirit is part of the discernment process.

Discernment: Three things I pray

🕔15. Jul 2019

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When the going gets tough

🕔15. Jul 2019

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Steps to discern your vocation

Cuatro pasos para el discernimiento vocacional

🕔11. Feb 2019

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Steps to discern your vocation

Four steps to vocation discernment

🕔11. Feb 2019

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Listen closely

🕔15. Jul 2019

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Cast the net wide - Vocations prayers

VOCATION PRAYERS | Vocations prayers | Prayers for vocations

🕔17. May 2018

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Rigobel Azanwi, O.F.M.Cap. takes a moment with family members after his solemn vows ceremony.

Comment parler de ta vocation à ta famille

🕔12. Aug 2014

Tes parents, ont-ils des doutes au sujet de ta vocation? Voici quelques façons de les écouter et de leur parler de leurs inquiétudes.

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Praying in Catholic Church

How to prepare for consecrated life

🕔20. Mar 2019

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Pray all ways

A user’s guide on the ways to pray

🕔27. Jul 2011

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Holiness is for everybody

🕔11. Jul 2009

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La santidad es para todos

🕔13. Jul 2009

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Discernment: A spiritual gift with a surprising goal

🕔25. Jun 2018

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El Papa Francisco

La carta del Papa para ti

🕔28. Jun 2018

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Stop worrying about God’s will

🕔26. Jun 2018

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4 questions to answer God’s call

🕔26. Jun 2018

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Abbot Christopher V12

How to nurture inner silence

🕔11. Dec 2014

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5 ways to better prayer

🕔19. Jun 2017

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12 steps to sisterhood (if you’re thinking too hard!)

🕔19. Jun 2017

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Desert discernment

🕔12. Jul 2016

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Discernimiento en el desierto

🕔15. Aug 2016

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Pope Francis in a crowd

FOR BULLETIN EDITORS & DISCERNERS: Reflections on consecrated life

🕔14. Nov 2014

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Pope Francis Prayer for Vocations

PRAYER CARD: Pope Francis Prayer for Vocations

🕔31. Oct 2014

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Petionary Prayers for Year of Consecrated Life

FOR LITURGISTS & PRAYER MINISTERS | petitionary prayers | song | vocation prayers

🕔30. Oct 2014

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Una de las bendiciones de mi noviciado fue aprender a dejarme amar por Dios en primer lugar.

Lo que aprendí como novato

🕔18. Jul 2016

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Una de las bendiciones de mi noviciado fue aprender a dejarme amar por Dios en primer lugar.

What I learned as a novice

🕔03. Aug 2016

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Sister Nathalie Becquart, Xav. at the helm.

Choisir le bon cap

🕔25. Jul 2016

La mer, avec ses conditions changeantes de turbulence et tranquillité, est une parabole de la vie et peut nous enseigner comment naviguer un chemin vers la joie.

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Three women running a race

Les chemins de la prière

🕔03. Aug 2015

Soeur Christa Parra, I.B.V.M. a découvert sa vocation lorsqu’elle priait. Maintenant c’est la prière qui la maintient ancrée dans sa vie de religieuse.

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Pray all ways—three ways to begin

🕔08. Jul 2008

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Rezar de todas las formas—tres maneras de empezar

🕔08. Aug 2008

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The essential facts about secular institutes

🕔17. Jul 2012

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Cinq étapes pour trouver ta vocation

🕔12. Aug 2014

C’est tout simple: demander, faire confiance, t’arrêter, écouter, répondre.

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Why consider a church vocation in times like these?

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Pray always

🕔18. Jul 2012

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Random Nun Clip: Dragging people to prayer—really?

🕔24. Nov 2014

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Random Nun Clip: As a busy mom, I have difficulty making time for prayer. What can I do?

🕔24. Nov 2014

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Random Nun Clip: What are some unexpected things you've learned about prayer?

🕔24. Nov 2014

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Random Nun Clip: How is prayer a way for Carmelite nuns to reach out to the needs of the world?

🕔24. Nov 2014

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What does God want from me?

🕔30. Jul 2014

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How to wait for clarity about your vocation

🕔14. Jul 2014

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How to narrow your vocation options

🕔12. Jul 2013

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Point and click to pray

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Questions people may ask about your vocation . . .

🕔08. Jul 2013

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When making life choices, turn to the Eucharist

🕔30. Jul 2012

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The brothers will be my prayer

🕔11. Jul 2009

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Los hermanos serán mi oración

🕔13. Jul 2009

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Dix points à connaître sur le discernement d’une vocation

🕔09. Aug 2011

En se basant sur les expériences d'un long et parfois éprouvant voyage vers la vie religieuse, on retient ces dix suggestions pour ceux toujours en voie de discernement.

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How to stay open to God’s call

🕔10. Jul 2012

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Cómo mantenerse abierto a la llamada de Dios

🕔03. Dec 2013

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What happens in spiritual direction?

🕔30. Jul 2012

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Three habits to make you a better disciple

🕔16. Jul 2012

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What are you afraid of?

🕔16. Jul 2012

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My week with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester

🕔10. Jul 2012

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Comment connaître la volonté de Dieu?

🕔05. Sep 2008

Recherchez-vous la volonté de Dieu dans votre propre vie? Bien, vous n’avez qu’à consulter les écritures saintes, l’Église, et l’expérience de votre vie personnelle.

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Come and see!

🕔10. Jul 2012

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¡Ven y mira!

🕔27. May 2016

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Le divan couleur orange derrière la porte, ou: Quand le suffisamment bon suffit

🕔09. Aug 2012

Il ne faut pas que tu connaisses entièrement l’évolution finale de ta vocation à la vie religieuse pour en faire le premier pas.

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Spiritual direction for dummies (and other smart people who don’t know where to start)

🕔13. Jun 2012

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My life in a college house of discernment

🕔13. Jun 2012

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A la recherche de la bonne mesure

🕔05. Aug 2010

Il n’y a pas deux communautés religieuses pareilles. Une initiée offre des conseils sur quoi chercher et sur les questions à poser lorsqu’on explore des communautés religieuses.

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Dear Discerner: Notes on love and promises

🕔11. Jul 2009

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Nous avons confiance en Dieu

🕔13. Jul 2009

Le ministère d'accompagnement et de discernement vocationnel a mis cette femme religieuse en contact avec des femmes et des hommes qui cherchaient une plénitude intérieure qu'ils croyaient impossible mais qui se sont finalement rendu compte que tout est possible avec Dieu.

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How to survive a "quarterlife crisis"

🕔08. Jul 2008

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Cómo sobrevivir a una crisis de “un cuarto de vida”

🕔26. Oct 2012

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Let God’s Word open the door to your heart

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Deja que la Palabra de Dios abra las puertas de tu corazón

🕔29. Oct 2012

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How to know where God is leading you

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Cómo saber hacia dónde te esta guiando Dios

🕔15. Jun 2012

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What does it mean to say that God is calling me?

🕔22. Jun 2008

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¿Qué significa decir que Dios me está llamando?

🕔18. Jun 2012

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My four months at a house of discernment

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Nine ways to open up God's will for you

🕔22. Jun 2008

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Nueve formas de descubrir la voluntad de Dios para ti

🕔18. Jun 2012

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Prayer sustains my vocation

🕔22. Jun 2008

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It all begins with a call

🕔22. Jun 2008

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