Best Practices for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life for Campus Ministries
- Make it available often, daily if possible
- Preach on the true Presence
- Creates an awareness of sin, and a need for mercy
- Leads students to strive for greater conversion
- Teaches them the importance of daily prayer
- Holds them accountable for prayer
- Instills in them a fundamental call to holiness
- 'jump starts' the spiritual life
- Takes them out of their normal surroundings to encounter God
- Seminary Visits/Nun runs or bring Seminarians and young Sisters to visit the Campus
- Helps each student to realize they are called specifically by God
- Groups let them know they are not alone and that others can help them on their journey
- Teaches them how to have fun in a holy and wholesome way
- Students need to see priests or sisters at prayer on a daily basis
- They also need to interact with them on a daily basis
- This could be number one but young Catholics generally do not know their faith
- Introducing them to the riches of the intellectual patrimony of the Church opens them to a deeper understanding of God and their role in God's plan