Vocation Sunday 2009

You may have seen our posters in your church, college or school. To read the letter from the Holy Father, Pope Benedict for Vocations Sunday and to read other resources, please visit our Vocations Sunday page.

Downside Abbey Vocations Retreats

Downside Abbey is hosting a series of Vocations Events for young men. These monastic experience can help you reflect on God's call.

Download a full programme here. www.downside.co.uk

Catholic Gap Year

The Catholic Church has recently launched a new website to encourage young Catholics to consider spending their gap-year in a Church-run project. It is the first time that a U.K. religious denomination has collated and published its gap-year opportunities on a single ‘umbrella’ site, seeking to market ‘faith’ as key factor that young people should consider when choosing a gap-year.

The catholicgapyear.com website, a joint initiative between the Catholic Church’s Vocation and Youth offices, aims to provide young Catholics with information about how and where they can spend a gap-year in a faith environment.

Given that more and more young people are choosing to take a gap-year before going to university or into work, the Church is keen to encourage young Catholics to spend time volunteering in projects which will help develop their faith and provide them with opportunities for vocational discernment, as well as developing the skills that other forms of gap-year ordinarily provide. Projects that young Catholics can apply to join include: residential youth work, sharing a home with physically disabled people and even some projects abroad in less-developed parts of the world.

Visit the website at www.catholicgapyear.com

Free to Become - New Website for Vocations Group!

A new website for the Vocations Discernment Group. The group is for young Catholics aged 18 - 38 meeting regularly in central London and in Essex, for mutual support, prayer and teaching from guest speakers so as to grow in the maturity and freedom necessary to make good choices about jobs, relationships and vocational states of life.

www.free2become.org/

A new website for St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw.

Ushaw College was founded in Douai in 1568 and has been located in Durham since 1808. This year the college celebrates 440 years of forming seminarians and 200 years of being located in Durham.

www.ushaw.ac.uk/seminary/index.html

New Website for Allen Hall!

A new website has been launched for Allen Hall, the Seminary of the Diocese of Westminster. The new website, www.allenhall.org.uk provides information to men who are considering the Catholic priesthood and helps people understand the process of formation that takes place in the seminary. It also gives practical information about life at Allen Hall and information to those wishing to use the seminary facilities for conferences or accommodation.

Southwark Vocations Online Blog!

Southwark Vocations blog for promoting priesthood in the Archdiocese of Southwark is now live at www.southwarkvocations.blogspot.com Here you will find information about vocations activities in Southwark as well as information of interest to anyone who is interested in the Priestly Vocation.

This site was last updated January 2009

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