Back in the fold better than ever

BROTHER JUAN JOSÉ JÁUREGUI, O.F.M.

Many people wander from their faith for a period, and Brother Juan José Jáuregui, O.F.M. is no exception. His life today as a Franciscan Friar, after a period of distance from his childhood faith, is proof that you can not only return, but also find a richer, fuller life in the doing. He belongs to the Franciscan Friars of the Saint Barbara Province, headquartered in Oakland, California, and ministers to the sick as a nursing assistant in a healthcare facility.

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What’s your favorite part of your current ministry?

The trust that sick people put in me.

Ever had any nicknames?

Juanjo, JJ, Fray, Brother.

What first drew you to religious life?

My own spiritual needs, curiosity, and concerns about something unknown— about God and myself.

When you were growing up, did you think you might become a religious?

Ever since I was a boy, I liked helping at church, and I enjoyed being an altar boy. It became something that brought me satisfaction. After adolescence, I forgot about it and didn’t take my faith seriously to the point that I distanced myself from the church. However, after I came to the United States from Mexico and worked a number of years, I realized that I needed to return.

Your favorite way to pray?

Alone, contemplating nature.

What would people be surprised to learn about you?

That I know how to handle pistols, shoot, and ride a horse.

What is the best part of living in community?

When I am going through a rough time and I need something, there is a brother there to help me.

Any words of wisdom for those considering religious life?

There is always a moment in our lives that may be shocking, that may change our lives and bring out our best and show us what we have inside. We should not ignore those moments. We should not be afraid of showing who we are, or of going where God is calling us.

The Redemptorists (C.Ss.R.) [Congregation of

the Most Holy Redeemer] The Redemptorists are a community of apostolic men—followers of Jesus Christ the Redeemer and disciples of St. Alphonsus Liguori. As a religious congregation of priests and brothers, our mission is to proclaim the Good News of plentiful redemption to the most abandoned, especially the poor. We share Christ’s love in the US and abroad through ministry in parishes, retreat houses, and parish missions, as well as in special apostolates with migrants, prisoners, and young adults. Like the apostles, we live and work together. We combine our prayers and deliberations, our labors and sufferings, our successes and failures, our talents and material goods in service to the Gospel. For more information, visit our website: www.redemptoristvocations. com or contact the Vocation Office: vocations@ redemptorists.net, (718) 321-1394. See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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The Salesians of Don Bosco (S.D.B.) For over 150 years under the teachings of St. John Bosco, Salesian Brothers and Priests have been inspiring young people to live lives of faith. We are looking for men who want to dedicate their lives to Christ, the Church, and the young. As a Salesian priest or brother, you will work with young people—journeying with them toward a deeper relationship with Christ. Salesians serve in various capacities of evangelization and education as youth and campus ministers, teachers, guidance counselors, mentors, and friends to the young and the poor. We live in community, pray, and work together for a common mission. There are currently over 15,000 Salesians serving young people in 132 countries. In the United States and Canada, the Salesians operate youth oriented parishes, high schools, boys and girls clubs, and retreat houses. If you are in Canada and East of the Mississippi River contact Fr. James Berning, S.D.B., Salesian Vocation Office, 518-B Valley Street, Orange, NJ 07050; (973) 761-0201; e-mail: info@salesiansofdonbosco.org; Facebook: facebook.com/salesianvocationseast; website: www.salesiansofdonbosco.org; If you are west of the Mississippi River contact Fr. Jose F. Lucero, S.D.B., Vocation Office, 13856 Bellflower Blvd., Bellflower, CA 90706; (626) 674-2675; email: info@salesianvocation.org; website: www. salesianvocation.org.

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Salvatorians (S.D.S.) [Society of the Divine

Savior] The Salvatorians were founded to use “all ways and means which the Love of Christ inspires” to bring the Gospel to the world. We are multicultural and fully embrace the Spirit of Vatican II with compassion for all. Our members collaborate closely with the Salvatorian Sisters, the Lay Salvatorians and the people we serve. We are involved in parishes, foreign missions, education, hospital and prison chaplaincies, youth ministry, counseling, campus ministry, communications, music and specialized ministries. Members serve in the Archdioceses of Milwaukee, Madison, New York City, Portland, St. Petersburg and Washington D.C. and in the Dioceses of Bismarck, Birmingham, Green Bay, Santa Rosa, Brooklyn, Nashville, Oakland, Orlando, Phoenix, St. Cloud, Sacramento, Venice, Wilmington and Tucson. American Salvatorians serve in the Philippines; Rome, Italy; and Tanzania East Africa. Contact us at vocations@salvatorians. com; (414) 258-1735 ext. 304; 1735 N. Hi Mount Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53208-1720; website: www. salvatorians.com. Check out FACEBOOK page in its totality through a variety of ministries—including parish work, catechetical programs, health care, education, ministries with street children, people with disabilities, refugees, Leprosy patients, AIDS Ministries, development and relief programs. Our ministries are a response to the needs of the local Church. You are invited to make a wholehearted, unconditional offer of your life at the service of the Gospel of Jesus. Please contact: S.M.A. Vocation Coordinator, 23 Bliss Avenue, Tenafly, NJ 07670; Phone: (201) 567-0450 ext. 250 or Cellphone: (201) 496-8394; e-mail: vocations. sma@gmail.com. Please visit our website: www. smafathers.org.

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Servants of Mary, Friars (O.S.M.)

Founded in 1233, we bring the compassionate presence of Christ to the world through lives lived in community, serving the needs of others in a variety of ministries, while looking to Mary as the example of life and service. The Servite Friars, together with Servite religious sisters, cloistered nuns, Servite Seculars and other lay groups, form an international community of over 15,000 members. For more information on the Servite Friars please contact the Vocation Ministry Office 1952 W. La Palma Ave, Anaheim, CA 92801; 855-OSM-1233 (855-676-1233); e-mail: Vocations@servitesusa.org; website: www.servite.org.

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Servants of the Paraclete (s.P.) We are a religious congregation of priests and brothers who dedicate our lives to Christ by assisting fellow priests and brothers who are in need of psychological, spiritual, and vocational support. Founded in 1947 by Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, s.P. our Congregation has helped more than 5,500 clergy through residential programs based on Eucharistic Adoration, psychological and spiritual counseling, fraternal life in common, and fidelity to the Church. Currently this ministry is being carried out in the USA and the Philippines. We also have a student house in Ho Chi Minh City and hope to open a house of prayer near Da Lat, VN soon. God willing we will also open a house in West Africa within the next few years. If you are interested in finding out more about the Servants of the Paraclete, please contact: Very Rev. David T. Fitzgerald, s.P., PO Box 450, Dittmer, MO 63023; e-mail: servantgeneral@aol.com; website: www.theservants.org. You will receive a warm welcome.

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Societe des Missions Africaines

(S.M.A.) or translated Society of African Missions is an international community of 1,200 missionaries: Priests, Brothers, Associate Priests and Lay Missionaries. We are committed to living the Gospel among our brothers and sisters in Africa and those of African descent, with a special concern for the poor and marginalized wherever we are serving. We strive to witness by our lives to the Gospel of Jesus Christ

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Society of Mary (S.M.) (See Marist Fathers and Brothers.)

Society of St. Paul The Society of St. Paul is a congregation of priests and brothers founded by Blessed James Alberione bringing Christ to the world today through the means of communication. The priests and brothers share a common life style and profess the vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and fidelity to the Pope. They are fortified by daily meditation, mass, liturgy of the hours and an hour of Eucharistic Adoration so that by living Christ they may give Christ to others through their apostolate. Paulines imitate St. Paul, who preached and wrote about Jesus Christ, to spread the good news of Jesus Christ in the most rapid and far reaching ways. Paulines preach Christ through books, magazines, tapes, videos, CD’s, radio, television and the Internet around the world. Contact: Society of St. Paul, Vocation Office, 2187 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10314; (718) 865-8844; e-mail: vocation@stpauls.us; website: www.vocationoffice.org.

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Somascan Fathers and Brothers (C.R.S.) The Somascan Fathers and Brothers minister at the following facilities: Pine Haven Boys Center, a residential treatment center for disadvantaged boys ages 7-15 in Allenstown, NH; Assumption Catholic Church and Christ the King Catholic Church in Houston, TX. Both parishes have a strong presence of immigrants from Latin America. Also in Houston, Somascan Hall, the House of Formation next to the Christ the King Church. All vocation inquiries should be addressed to Fr. Remo Zanatta, CRS, Vocation Director: (713) 880-8243; e-mail: remozanatta@gmail.com. For more information please visit: www.somascans.org.

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Spiritans (C.S.Sp.) [Congregation of the Holy

Spirit] For over three centuries Spiritans have crisscrossed the globe—living particularly among people who are suffering, being a pastoral presence and advocate for justice, and teaching the message of the Gospel. In parishes, schools, and missions we go where there is a need, bearing God’s Spirit of joy and hope. Today Spiritan Priests and Brothers are over 3,000 strong, an international congregation on an adventure of the Spirit. We are committed to the poor, dedicated to justice, and open to all cultures, and grounded in community and prayer. Vocation Office, Vocation Director, 6230 Brush Run Rd., Bethel Park, PA 15102-2214; (412) 831-0302; e-mail: joinus@spiritans.org; website: www.spiritans.org. See our web ads at vocationnetwork.org.

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Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Cony-

ers, GA—Holy Spirit Monastery In the Georgia Piedmont 35 of us share life in a contemplative community. Ages range from 28 to 93. We have joined our neighbors in going green by fostering stream restoration, an organic vegetable garden, and a natural burial cemetery. We value silence, solitude, manual labor, compassion, the Eucharist, personal and communal prayer, friendship and forgiveness. We honor the good in our society and yet challenge its illusions, especially the assumption that our identity and value depend on what we do, and on what others think of us. We work with hardships and challenges, knowing that these contribute to spiritual and emotional maturation, leading us beyond resistance to giving ourselves away, at ever deeper levels. Contact: Br. Elias, 2625 Hwy 212 SW, Conyers, GA 30096; (678) 964-2018; e-mail: elias091499@gmail. com; www.trappist.net/vocation. See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Moncks

Corner, SC—Mepkin Abbey We, the monks of Mepkin Abbey, are responding to God’s call to live an ancient form of radical Christian discipleship focused on seeking and finding God in community where we “are of one heart and one soul and everything is held in common” (Acts 4:32-33). We live the Rule of Saint Benedict in the Cistercian tradition, praising God in our prayer, meditative reading of Scripture, work and hospitality--desiring to live in ceaseless prayer. All Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) bear witness to this contemplative monastic tradition by living our vows of stability, obedience, and “conversatio morum” (conversion of life) in the rhythm of work and manual labor--striving for deeper union with God. If you believe God may be calling you to join us, kindly contact our vocation director, Fr. Kevin, O.C.S.O., 1098 Mepkin Abbey Rd., Moncks Corner, SC 29461; (843) 761-8509; e-mail: fr.kevinocso@ gmail.com: website: www.mepkinabbey.org. See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Trappist,

KY—Abbey of Gethsemani Our monastery is a school of the Lord’s service where Christ is formed in the hearts of the brothers through the liturgy, the abbot’s teaching and the fraternal way of life. The monk expresses this love by his desire to share life together at the heart of the Church and to grow into Christ through prayer, work, and sacred reading every day. Located in the beautiful knob country of central Kentucky, we Trappists have lived, prayed, and worked in this house of the Lord for over 165 years. Our mission is the praise of God’s goodness and the proclamation of the Kingdom’s nearness. Living in solitude and silence the monk aspires to that interior quiet in which wisdom is born. The vows of obedience, stability, and fidelity to the monastic way of life provide our structure, support, and encouragement to persevere in the journey, in the work, in the search. Men between the ages of 22 and 50 may apply. For more information contact Bro. Aaron Schulte, Abbey of Gethsemani, 3642 Monks Rd., Trappist KY 40051; (502) 549-4116; e-mail: vocations@monks. org; website: www.monks.org. See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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Trappist Cistercian Monks (O.C.S.O.) Vina,

CA—Abbey of New Clairvaux Our Lord Jesus came to bring us the Fullness of Life. In response, our life as Cistercian (Trappists) monks is the simple, direct and effective way to embrace that Divine Life. Following the Rule of Saint Benedict and the nine-hundred year old Cistercian Monastic tradition, it is a life wholly directed to contemplation through Liturgy, Manual Labor and Lectio Divina. The rhythm of our life helps us to be aware of God throughout the day. By means of obedience, simplicity, solitude and silence, we grow in purity of heart in the School of Charity. Through manual labor we share in God’s creativity, exercising love for each brother, are in solidarity with all people, and cultivate good stewardship of the land. Men between 22 and 40 may apply. Contact: Br. Christopher, Vocation Director; Abbey of New Clairvaux, 26240 7th Street, Vina, CA 96092; (530) 839-2161; e-mail: godseeking@newclairvaux.org; website: www.newclairvaux.org.See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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Trinitarians (O.SS.T.) Founded in 1198 through the vision of St. John DeMatha, the Trinitarian priests and brothers bring the redemptive love of Jesus to those they serve. The earliest Trinitarians, through every possible means available, sought freedom for those held captive for their faith. Through their work for the poor, those who suffer religious persecution, and in parishes, schools, missions, prisons, and hospitals, they strive for the freedom of all people. Trinitarians live in small, intimate communities and enjoy common prayer. Their purpose in loving is freedom and dignity. They number 40 members in the United States and more than 700 worldwide. Candidates, ages 18-40, with a minimum of a high school diploma, are considered. Vocation Office, P.O. Box 5719, Baltimore, MD 21282-5719; (800) 486-0614 or (410) 486-5171; e-mail: vocations@trinitarians.org; website: www. trinitarians.org.

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Viatorians (Clerics of St. Viator) Viatorians are religious priests, brothers, and lay associates sent by the Catholic Church to teach the faith and proclaim Jesus Christ as Gospel. In parishes, schools, and a variety of ministries, Viatorians work with Christian communities to live, deepen, and celebrate faith. A priest of the Archdiocese of Lyons, France, Father Louis Querbes founded the Viatorians in 1831 as an association of lay and religious school teachers to catechize and serve as animators of the liturgy in rural French parishes. As patron saint of the congregation, Father Querbes chose Saint Viator, a young fourth century catechist-lector of the cathedral church of Lyons. Today approximately 600 religious and nearly 300 lay men and women serve the church in 16 countries. Viatorians of the Province of Chicago minister primarily in Illinois and Nevada in the United States, and in Bogota, Colombia, South America. Contact: Fr. Thomas von Behren, CSV, Vo-

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Vincentian Priests and Brothers [Congregation of the Mission

(C.M.)] Confronted by poverty and sickness in France in the 1600’s and the spiritual weariness caused by an uneducated clergy in that same period, St. Vincent de Paul committed his life to championing the needs of the poor. Almost 400 years after founding the Vincentians in 1625, his community of priests and brothers continue to spread God’s message of hope to the poor, and to train priests and laity in service to the poor. We work in 53 international provinces on five continents alongside other members of the Vincentian Family. We welcome you to join us as we follow Jesus Christ, the evangelizer of the poor. Experience the Vincentian charism as a priest or brother in our Congregation! Contact us at Eastern Province: vocations@stjohns. edu; website: www.cmeast.org as well as the Western Province: vocations@vincentian.org; website: www. vincentian.org.

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The Vocationists [Society of Divine

Vocations] We are a religious community of Priests and Brothers. Our charism is to discern, promote, accompany and nurture vocations to the priesthood and religious life for the whole Church. We promote, teach and preach universal sanctification for all people. We carry out our ministry in parishes, schools and missions. The Vocationist Fathers and Brothers are presently working in 14 countries: Argentina,

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, Nigeria, Philippines,

United Kingdom, France, and the U.S.A. Come, visit and experience life with our religious community. Talk with Priests and Spiritual Directors who have dedicated their lives to people just like you, who want to know: “What do I want to do?” and “What does God want me to do?” If God is calling you, call us: “WORKING FOR AND WITH VOCATIONS IS OUR VOCATION.” Vocation Director: Rev. Emeka Okwuosa, SDV, 90 Brooklake Road, Florham Park, NJ 07932; 973-780-0057; email: emmyokwuosa. sdv@live.com; Website: www.vocationist.org.

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Xaverian Missionaries (S.X.) Serving in 20 countries around the world, the Xaverian Missionaries are an international, multicultural community of over 1,000 priests, brothers, and sisters. In the spirit of our founder Saint Guido M. Conforti we commit ourselves to live and witness to the Good News of Jesus—the greatest gift we can share with the world— in poverty, chastity, and obedience. We fulfill this mission in and through community. Moved by our passion for Christ and for humanity our mission is directed to those who do not know Christ and among them we choose to work with the poor. It is our desire that our lives and our ministries may always reflect the love of Christ. Through empowerment of local communities, education, inter-religious dialogue, health care, social development, justice and peace, we facilitate the transformation of our world into the “ONE FAMILY” our Founder dreamed. Contact: Fr. Rocco Puopolo, sx, 101 Summer Street, Holliston, MA 01746; (508) 429-2144; e-mail: frrocco@xaverianmissionaries.org; website: www.xaverianmissionaries.org; blog: www.xaveriannmissionaries.blogspot. com/. See our web ad at vocationnetwork.org.

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