Parents
Video For ParentsThis video offers words of encouragement and simple advice for parents.
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Is God calling your child?
While this is God’s decision, parents play an important role and have a moral responsibility to create a supportive home environment in which a decision about a vocation is made. The response to God’s call is made within family and among friends who indicate through what they say and do whether they value and support a religious vocation—a vocation that is a life of service to God and His people.
While this is God’s decision, parents play an important role and have a moral responsibility to create a supportive home environment in which a decision about a vocation is made. The response to God’s call is made within family and among friends who indicate through what they say and do whether they value and support a religious vocation—a vocation that is a life of service to God and His people.
God has entrusted you, as a parent, with the responsibility of teaching your son or daughter that God should be the biggest influence in their life.
"The Christian family, which is truly a 'domestic Church' (Lumen Gentium, 11), has always offered and continues to offer favorable conditions for the birth of vocations…"
— Pastores Dabo Vobis, 118
Holy Catholic families are created to produce not just "nice people" but saints. As the Fathers of the Church and the Second Vatican Council teach us, the family is the domestic Church. A married couple lives their life of love in Christ as fruit of their baptismal call to holiness. That faithful love, through their vocation as husband and wife, becomes a seed bed for the vocations of their children. The family is where the virtues of prayer, hard work, sacrifice and generosity are lived and modeled. Parents then are given the remarkable gift of forming their children in readiness to hear and answer the Lord’s call to holiness and apostolic mission in service to Him and His Church. They are instrumental in giving their children an esteem for the wonderful dignity of the Lord’s choice of them should He honor them with a vocation to the priesthood or consecrated religious life. “Teach a child to choose the right path, and when he is older he will remain on it.” Proverbs 22:6