Tag: Vocations Awareness Week

Each November we enjoy fresh-picked apples, cranberries and pumpkin-spice everything as our excitement builds towards Thanksgiving. The church in the United States observes another...

Certain graduates of Catholic schools remember when religious sisters were the rule, not the exception. As the number of women religious declines, it has...

By Dennis Stameza Diocese of Wilmington seminarian Pastoral year is a one-year program of supervised ministry in a parish, which normally takes place for our seminarians...

By Louis Namugera Diocese of Wilmington seminarian As part of my application process at the St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, I was asked how...

Mark Donohue, 32, has been a seminarian in the Diocese of Wilmington the last four years. Beginning his pastoral year last summer, he made...

By Father John J. Mink Pastor, St. Ann Parish On October 11, the universal Church commemorated the opening of the Second Vatican Council by Saint Pope...

WASHINGTON -- “Overwhelmed with joy” is how Anthony Miranda described his parents’ reaction when he told them he felt God calling him to the...

The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales have had a long, distinguished history of service in the Diocese of Wilmington, and a new program...

The traditional image of vocations, particularly for women, involves sisters taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, then going about the work of the...

The coronavirus has put a dent in the normal activities of the diocesan Office for Vocations, but the work of talking about God’s plan...