Join the CatholicTV Network and the Catholic Church in the United States as we celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week. Since Friday, January 8, 2010 on This is the Day, the network's signature Catholic television talk show, vocation programming has been featured throughout the broadcast day.
Catholic Saints and Lay People and The Call, two of our "series" you can view live throughout the week, or on-demand at a special web page at Your Catholic Broadband Network, will also feature vocations-related programs. The Knights of Columbus have produced a vocations video called "Fishers of Men" you can see at the Catholic website for on-demand Catholic video, CatholicTV.com.
Highlights:
Friday, January 8, 2010
- This is the Day "Jesuit Vocations" 10:30 a.m. LIVE with Father Jack Butler, SJ Director of Vocations for the New England Province of Jesuits. Rebroadcasts Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and Monday at 12:30 a.m.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
- This is the Day "Mercy Vocation" 10:30 a.m. LIVE with Father Tony Stephens, CPM Vocation Director of the Fathers of Mercy. Rebroadcasts Tuesday at 8 p.m., Wednesday at 6 p.m., Thursday at 12:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
- Catholic Saints and Lay People 11:30 a.m. and noon NEW half-hour documentaries looking at the vocations of men and women to religious life. Rebroadcasts Wednesday at 5 a.m., Friday at 8 a.m. and Sunday at 10:30 p.m.
- The Call 12:30 p.m. NEW a special program looking at the vocation to the priesthood. Rebroadcasts Wednesday 6 a.m., Friday 9 a.m., and Sunday 11:30 p.m.
Friday, January 15, 2010
- This is the Day "Vocations Brothers" 10:30 a.m. LIVE with Brothers Jewel and Joseph Antoya, CPM co-founders of Family Vocations Ministries. Rebroadcasts Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and Monday at 12:30 a.m.
all times Eastern - programming and guests subject to change
"This week is a chance for parishes across the country to highlight the gift of vocations in the church through prayer and education," said Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, chairman of the Bishops' Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations. "As a church, we recognize the need to safeguard and promote this gift."
Father James Steffes, executive director of the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, added, "The church needs to help young people hear the Lord in prayer, so they can recognize him in their lives."
"This week reminds us that it is our responsibility to pray for vocations and to invite young people to consider a call to ordained ministry and consecrated life."
The observance of National Vocation Awareness Week (NVAW) began in 1976 when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops designated the 28th Sunday of the year as the beginning of NVAW. In 1997, this celebration was moved to coincide with Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which marks Jesus' initiation into public ministry. At his baptism Jesus is named the beloved Son of God. With this celebration the faithful recommit themselves to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. They are also initiated through their own baptism to be the Beloved of God, commissioned to proclaim Good News with their lives.
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