10601 Dexter Pinckney Road, Pinckney, Michigan 48169

Phone (734) 878-3161        Rev. Bill Wegher

Vocations Awareness

The Vocation Ministry team was formed here at St. Mary in January 2006. St. Mary is committed to doing their part to help foster vocations to not only the priesthood, but also to religious life, permanent diaconate and lay ecclesial ministry.

Fostering vocations in children as well as teenagers is important in preparing them to hear their call from God whether it is to the priesthood, religious life, married life or single life dedicated to the service of God. This begins in the home. You may not know this but it is parents who play the greatest influence in a child’s vocation.  As a parent or grandparent would you support your child going into a religious vocation or the priesthood? Would you know where to find the resources necessary to support them and their call from God? Do you talk about vocations openly with your children? Vocation ministry is here to help you and to be a resource to get your questions answered. As a parish we must take the words of our late Holy Father, John Paul II and within our parish: "Arouse in Those Whom God Calls the Courage of Love's Answer: "Here I am, send me!""

We have many plans to help increase the awareness in our parish for the need to cultivate, talk about and pray for vocations. Some of the activities we are planning include: the Chalice Program in which a chalice will be passed around to the homes of St. Mary families. This will serve as a reminder in the home to foster and pray for vocations. This team will also provide Prayer for Vocations for the Eucharistic Adorers. You will find a prayer card on the stand outside of the adoration chapel. Please join us in praying for vocations, especially from St. Mary parish. The vocation team will invite people with different religious vocations to speak to the youth of our parish, through St. Mary School, Religious Education program and the youth group. These are a few of the projects which are being planned. There is also a boys program, the Conquest Program that has been formed to develop virtues in boys which is required in all vocations..

We would like to leave you with an excerpt from Pope John Paul II.

 “Faced with the grave crisis of vocations to the ordained ministry and to the consecrated life that pervades some regions of the world, it is necessary, to labor so that every priest, every consecrated person, rediscovers the beauty of their own vocation and witnesses it to others.”

Phone

email Vocations@stmarypinckney.org