Welcome
The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations is privileged to assist men and women to follow God's call to service in the Church through a life of consecration. We operate the St. Joseph Student Debt Relief Grant Program for religious life and the St. John Vianney Student Debt Relief Grant Program for the parish priesthood. These grants eliminate the delay many young people encounter as they struggle to pay off their student debts before they can enter religious life. A grant pays candidates' student loan payments while they are in formation for either religious life or the priesthood.
News
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May 2010
MEFV President starts blog
Corey Huber, President of the MEFV, has begun a blog: The Next Loving Thing. He will be using it to report on trips the Huber's make to grant recipients and other religious orders. It will also provide a more immediate, informal outlet for news about MEFV grant recipients and their communities.Spring Newsletter Released
Our spring newsletter has been mailed to our donors. You can download a copy here (pdf).MEFV President becomes “expert” for the press
The Pittsburgh, PA marathon was run on Saturday May 1st. A group of seminarians ran in the marathon for the purpose of raising money to defray the debt of several young women wanting to enter religious life. When a local reporter was in need of background information for her article on the seminarians, she contacted the President of the MEFV, Corey Huber. You can read the resulting article on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's website.
Watch our video,
Missing Vocations,
which portrays the joy
of our grant recipients
and the great need that remains
to help more vocations come to fruition.
Please Help
We are helping 62 men and women follow their vocations (and have helped another 24 to try their vocations). Each year we must raise the money necessary to make their student loan payments. These men and women pray each day for you, for the Church and for the world as they work to become priests, monks and brothers, and nuns and sisters.
You can read about some of these men and women on our vocation stories page.
That was the good news. The truly awful news is that we have had to turn away 60 young people who wanted to offer their lives to Christ, but could not because of their student debt! Will the Church lose these vocations?
Please help us help them by making a tax-deductible contribution.
Milestones
(Progress of MEFV grantees)
» On April 29th 2010, feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Meryana received the Dominican Habit and the religious name of Sister Mary Isabel of the Angels. Sr. Mary Isabel is at the Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California.
Read Sr. Mary Isabel's vocation story.
Visit our grant recipient milestones archive.