Everyone has a responsibility to encourage vocations
Karl Schudt delineates some pointers. Interested persons (and we all should be interested) may want to check out the Institute on Religious Life. Their national meeting is at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein,IL April 25-27 of this year. Martha and I attended last year. What a day! Catholic nerdiness permits me to say it was a lot of fun.

This year’s tentative program:

"Consecrated Life: Informing, Reforming
and Transforming Culture"

Speakers and dignitaries thus far:
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.,
Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.
Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J.
Fr. Robert Barron
Fr. C. Frank Phillips, C.R.
Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis