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Happy Vocation Awareness Week! This week reminds us to ask ourselves, “Am I living my vocation to the full?” If you haven’t yet determined your life’s vocation, this week can serve as an invitation to renew your commitment to God to be open to Him in prayer. Is He asking you to take a concrete step in a particular direction?
If you are in a permanent vocation, it’s a call to renew our commitment to support and encourage vocations to the priesthood and religious life, as well as to holy matrimony.
Visit our
website for prayers for vocations and for more ideas on building a culture of vocations, and see our upcoming events (below) for those whom God might be calling.
Please keep all those preparing themselves as seminarians or religious in your prayers this week and always.
Peace in Christ,
Fr. Jaffe
Fr. J.D. Jaffe
Director of the Office of Vocations
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Diocese of Arlington
Office of Vocations
200 N. Glebe Road
Suite 901
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 841-2514
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Steven Oetjen ordained to the Diaconate
As a final step on his ordination to the priesthood, Steven Oetjen was ordained a deacon in Rome on September 29.
He is pictured here at the ordination Mass in St. Peter's
Basilica, then at his Mass of Thanksgiving with the other Arlington seminarians at the tomb of Blessed Pius IX.
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Running for Seminarians
Congratulations and thanks to the Race for Seminarians team! In spite of lower registration (due to Marine Corps 10K reducing participants), the runners raised $12,000 to support our seminarians.
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Quo Vadis Mass & Paintball
The Quo Vadis guys had a great time at the Mass and Paintball event.
Team Fr. Schierer beat up on Team Fr. Christensen and poor Vocations Director Fr. Jaffe was killed twice.
See more photos. |
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FIAT Nun Run
The young women of FIAT learned about religious life as they visited and prayed with the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, and the Poor Clares on the recent Nun Run.
See more photos. |
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Vocation Liaison Workshop
Vocation Liaisons from 35 parishes came together to get ideas and share success stories about promoting vocations in their communities.
Above, Fr. Jaffe describes the variety of materials available for the parishes. Left, seminarian Cory Russman tells the Liaisons a bit of how God worked to get him to the seminary.
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Serra Club visits St. John Paul II Seminarians
With the mission of praying for and supporting vocations, the Arlington Serra Club of visited the seminarians at St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C. They learned more about life in a college seminary and treated the seminarians to lunch. |
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For more information and to register for upcoming events visit:
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