The College Fix
The Fund for Vocations appeared in The College Fix, a nonprofit media organization run by veteran journalists and run by student reporters. The article was titled, “Nonprofit helps 13 new applicants pay student loans while considering religious vocation.” In the article, Associate Editor Mark Lamb interviews our Executive Director, Mary Radford, and our founder, Corey […]
The New York Times
See the article featured on our facebook and instagram pages! In an article entitled, “They Want to Become Nuns and Priests. Student Debt Holds Them Back,” The New York Times covered the little known phenomenon that underlies our whole mission. Student loans are holding back young men and women who want to make vows of […]
The Wall Street Journal
In an article entitled, “When Student Debt Stands in the Way of Religious Poverty,” The Wall Street Journal profiles students with religious vocations. Student loans held them back. But WSJ featured The Fund for Vocations as an option. The Fund allows young people to enter into formation as soon as God calls them. “The Virginia-based […]
The Gates of Hell Shall not Prevail
The other day I was reading the homily of a bishop given at the Baccalaureate Mass at a well-known Catholic college. He quoted Christ saying “the gates of hell shall not prevail against [My church].” And then the bishop said, “The fulfillment of Our Lord’s assurance obliges Christians to conform our human will to the […]
As We Prepare for the Feast of Christmas
It’s the middle of the second week of Advent already. There will be Rose vestments next Sunday. Advent half over and where are we with our devotions? Well settled? Not yet started? I normally find myself in the latter group rather than the former. But I have a secret weapon in the best spiritual reading […]
Mystery Novels…But So Much More
I am currently engaged in working my way through all 20 of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul of Shrewsbury, in England. The action of the novels begins circa 1110 and continues for many years. I fear I will blow through them much too soon for […]
Just Do It
By the time I knew there was such a thing as a “vocation,” mine was completely set and fixed for life. I probably started hearing about vocations when I was happily married for 10 to 15 years. That was when I started attending Mass seasonally (Advent & Lent) with my wife who reverted to Catholicism […]
We Are Each Responsible for Our Own Salvation
If you are a regular reader of these posts you will have noticed that I was on summer vacation. I took some time to go back to school and learn about the beginnings of religious life. When I got home, before I could get back to writing, I was blindsided by the Holy Father’s moto […]
Sr. Mary Isabel’s Profession of Solemn Vows
https://youtu.be/zW1C_q86vzE The solemn profession of vows of Sr. Mary Isabel of the Angels took place on May 3, 2017.Corpus Christi Monastery Dominican NunsMenlo Park, California.
Obedience
Last Sunday I fulfilled my Sunday obligation at a Traditional Latin Mass. The gospel for the fourth Sunday after Pentecost is the calling of Simon, as he was then known, to his true vocation: a fisher of men. It’s a compelling story. It no doubt has many and varied lessons, but I would like to […]