2024 VISION Vocation Guide

RELIGIOUS LIFE

COURTESY OF THE CONVENTUAL FRANCISCAN FRIARS, OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION PROVINCE

Religious life: The call continues

FRIAR GEORGE Munjanattu, O.F.M.Conv., a campus minister at Bellarmine University, blesses a university student’s rabbit on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.

by Sister Susan Rose Francois, C.S.J.P. & Friar Mario L. Serrano, O.F.M.Conv.

Sister Susan Rose Francois, C.S.J.P. is assistant congregation leader of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace.

Two members of religious communities look at the vibrant future. While communities experience dramatic changes as a large generation lives its final years, creative new energies are afoot.

GOD’S LOVE CONTINUES

By Sister Susan Rose Francois, C.S.J.P.

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OD’S LOVE will always be. It is everlasting and beyond understanding. At our very core, we who have been loved into existence by our Creator are programmed to respond in turn. Each person’s response is unique of course, and the church recognizes vocations to marriage, single life, and religious life as ways we are called to live in and share God’s love.

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Friar Mario L. Serrano, O.F.M.Conv. is both secretary of the province and vocation director for the Franciscan Friars Conventual, Province of Our Lady of Consolation.