{"id":38242,"date":"2024-11-06T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/?p=38242"},"modified":"2024-11-07T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T13:22:44","slug":"celebrating-vocations-awareness-week-and-remembering-good-faithful-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fallriverdiocese.org\/pt-pt\/bishops-blog\/celebrating-vocations-awareness-week-and-remembering-good-faithful-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Vocations Awareness Week and Remembering Good and Faithful Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Among the many celebrations in the Church is National Vocation Awareness Week<\/a>, a nationwide effort during the first week of November each year to promote vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life. Please pray for vocations and offer your passionate support for someone who may be discerning a call to religious life this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the number of permanent deacons and Catholics has increased worldwide, there is a decline in the number of seminarians, priests, those discerning religious life, and baptisms, according to a Catholic News Service<\/em><\/a> analysis of Vatican statistics<\/a>. I suppose there are a number of reasons for this, likely in part because of a busy world with many distractions plus heightened materialism, secularism and other modern challenges. But there is also richness in religious vocation. If you are interested, please contact our Vocations Office<\/a> to explore a vocation as a priest, deacon, or member of a religious order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Called by Name: How it Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Called By Name Vocations campaign<\/a> is being launched in our Diocese this week. I am excited to share how you can nominate a young man who might be discerning a call to the priesthood. Visit the Vocations<\/a> website and complete a form that invites you to share a young man\u2019s name, age range, and parish. That\u2019s it. Once we receive the information, I will send the individual a letter of invitation and encouragement, and he will have the opportunity to opt into receiving resources from the Vocations Office and invitations to discernment events<\/a>. Thank you for your help as we seek to connect with and support faithful young men in the Diocese of Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well Done, Good and Faithful Servants<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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During November, we pause to remember the faithfully departed in meaningful ways. At the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Wednesday, I celebrated our annual Mass to pray for the repose of the souls of deceased bishops, priests, and deacons of our Diocese. We remember by name those who have died during the past year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n