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Understand and use Vocation Vocabulary

Provide opportunities for young people to work with priests, brothers, or sisters.

Invite small groups to share prayer and a meal with priests or sisters in a rectory or convent.

Have students prepare a "Class Mass" with the intention and focus on vocation/call.

Bring to attention of the students graduates who are priests, brothers, and sisters.

Make available religious vocation material in the resource center, library, or guidance office.

Explore through Scripture different ways that God calls people and the various responses to that call.

Promote understanding of religious vocations through reading and projects about founders of religious congregation.

Help students to know and recognize the people who have already responded to a religious vocational call in your parish or school.

Develop class projects that encourage student interaction with priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters.

Sponsor a contest with vocation awareness themes such as creative writing, posters, photography, etc.

Invite religious faculty and parish priests to share their 'vocation story' with students.

Encourage students to pray so that they might discover and use the gifts that God has given them.

Guide students in the development of the habit of personal prayer for discernment of their vocations.

Build Vocation Awareness education into the curriculum.

Use audio-visual material with vocational themes.

Celebrate Vocation Awareness Week.

Acquaint students with various types of Church ministries.

Incorporate vocation themes into regular classroom prayer.

Have each student pray for one seminarian or novice by name. Encourage the student to write to the seminarian or novice.

Make available to students information about vocation events sponsored by the Vocation Office for Diocesan Priesthood or Religious Communities.

Pray for vocations in the classroom.