After you join the Chalice for Vocations Group, you will receive a confirmation email where you can sign up for an available week. If there aren't any available weeks that meet your schedule, please still complete the signup form so that you will be notified via email when additional weeks are available.
Guide for the Family Chalice for Vocations Program
“Wherever priests are scarce, nothing can substitute for them, but rather the whole community should beg for them with greater insistence, by personal and community prayer.”
- Pope John Paul II
Purpose: To increase the number of families praying for vocations
Since the Eucharist is central to our Catholic faith and parish, the Family Chalice for Vocations Program encourages families to pray for vocations. It is from within the family that our Lord grew in wisdom and grace; and it is in the family that we will sow the seeds of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
How it works: Families sign up for a specific week and Mass to receive a Family Chalice for Vocations. Following Holy Communion at the Mass, the presider calls forth the designated family to present them with the Chalice and commission them to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. The family takes the chalice home, placing it where they gather and pray each day for vocations, using prayers contained in the Family Chalice for Vocations Program Guide and Prayer Book. The following weekend, the family returns the chalice filled with their prayers. The Masses will be rotated so the entire parish will be made aware of the need for prayer for vocations and can participate in this program.
This program is intended to be an on-going project.
“Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only through prayer can they persevere and bear fruit..”
“Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.”
- Pope Francis
“I want to invite all the People of God to reflect on the theme: Faith in the divine initiative – the human response. The exhortation of Jesus to his disciples: “Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matt 9:38) has a constant resonance in the Church. Pray! The urgent call of the Lord stresses that prayer for vocations should be continuous and trusting…”
“Our first duty, therefore, is to keep alive in families and in parishes, in movements and in apostolic associations, in religious communities and in all the sectors of diocesan life this appeal to the divine initiative with unceasing prayer…What is asked of those who are called is careful listening and prudent discernment, a generous and willing adherence to the divine plan, and a serious study of the reality that is proper to the priestly and religious vocations, so as to be able to respond responsibly and with conviction…”
- Pope Benedict XVI
