“Young people need to have their freedom respected, yet they also need to be accompanied. The family should be the first place of accompaniment.”
Christus Vivit (#242)
Activities to do with children
- Make a Priest Collar for your sons to help imagine themselves as priests one day
- Coloring Page – Pray for Vocations
- Vocational Books to read
- Becket Wants to Be a Priest by Stephanie and Matt Regitz
- Little Convent in the Big City by Mother Clare Matthiass
- One Holy Marriage: The Story of Louis and Zelie Martin by Katie Warner
A parent’s prayer for the vocation of their children
Dear Heavenly Father,
You have blessed us with children. We sometimes forget that they are not ours but Yours, and that You have asked us to bring them up in Your ways.
O gracious and loving God, we pray that our children will discover and respond enthusiastically to Your desire for them whether it be to the vocation of single, married, ordained or religious life.
Please help our children to have open hearts and minds to hear Your call. Help us to support and encourage our children to seek Your will in choosing a vocation.
Amen.