Vocation Contact Person

What is a Vocation Contact Person?

A Vocation contact Person (VCP) is a parishioner, designated by the pastor, who has a special role to assist the pastor with Vocation Awareness in the Parish.

What is the Role of a Vocation Contact Person?

•  Be a person of prayer who prays for vocations.

•  Assists the Pastor with Vocation Awareness.

•  Helps implement prayers for vocations through Prayer Cards, Eucharistic Adoration, General Intercessions, and Masses for vocations.

•  Helps publicize and coordinate programs like "Called By Name", Dinner with the Bishop, Family Vocation Day, which will help identify possible vocations in the parish.

•  Makes available to the parish family: Vocation Cards, Pamphlets, Posters and other vocation material.

•  Helps identify those members of the parish who have expressed an interest in a vocation.

•  Attends Informational Sessions given by the Vocation Committee once or twice a year (Sessions held in regional areas).

As baptized Christians each of us is called to assist others to discover their vocation as we have been assisted on our faith journeys. We are called to be a disciple which is accompanied by a responsibility to share in the church's mission.

Keep in mind that a vocation is God's unique invitation, addressed to individual persons in which a free response is expected. This response is not a single act, but a life-long process, a journey of faith. We do not "have" a vocation; we discover how we "are" our vocation as we journey through life led by the Spirit.

An individual discovers their vocation at various stages of life and in relationship with others:

•  when a person is loved and appreciated by others,

•  when the person is attracted by the example of others,

•  when the person becomes aware of the needs of others,

•  when the person prays and meditates on the word of God,

•  when the person desires to help others,

•  when their heart tells them they are looking for more in life.

Each of us is called to help make others aware of their personal richness, talents and human value, opening their eyes to the variety of lifestyles and ministries within the Church.

We are to assist the young and the not so young in their search for who it is God wants them to be; to walk with them in faith, to pray with them, to guide them, to help them become aware of God's loving presence in their personal history in order that they might respond to the will of God.

'Scripture narrates the history of salvation as a history of vocations, in which the Lord's initiative and people's response have become intertwined. In fact every vocation is born from the meeting of two freedoms: the divine and the human: Every vocation is a personal and unique event, but also a community and ecclesial event. No one is called to walk alone.'

~Pope John Paul II, World Day of Prayer for Vocations, 1997