Phone: 707-644-5251
Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Mondays - Fridays
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (noon) and 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Vocation AWARENESS ministry
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NATIONAL VOCATION AWARENESS WEEK"National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in our country November 7-13, 2021. Please ask Our Lord for more dedicated, holy priests, deacons, and consecrated men and women. May they be inspired by Jesus Christ, supported by our faith community, and respond generously to God's gift of vocation." -
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Holy Hour for vocations
Please join Deacon Casey Walker as he leads a Divine Mercy Holy Hour for Vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
The Holy Hour will be held on 1st Thursdays from 3:00 - 4:00 pm in the main church.
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mISSION sTATEMENT
Mission/Vision: We, the vocation Awareness Committee, respond to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, "The harvest is full...and ask the Lord to send more laborers into the harvest." Luke10:2.
The Committee strengthens in an atmosphere centered on the Eucharist, the devotion to The Blessed Virgin Mary, and guided by the teachings of the Church, we, promote the increase of vocation to the priesthood and religious life in the St Basil's parish life community, in God's providence, we are devoted to supporting those He has called through prayer, motivation, example, and service.
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OBJECTIVES
Objectives:
- to motivate and encourage men and women through priestly and religious calling
- to recognize, visit, and support seminarians and those who respond to religious life
- to prepare and organize First Thursday devotion before the Blessed Sacrament for the increase of vocation to the priesthood and religious life
- to provide for the immediate needs of the enrolled seminarians and those from religious life in our parish community like toiletries, gift cards, inspirational books to name a few
- to organize and invite seminarians, priests, religious brothers and sisters to share their journey of vocation to the priesthood and religious life
- to invite individuals or families to the care of the Vocation Cross each week
- to pray the rosary and the Vocation Prayer
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cONTACT
Meets the first Thursday of each month before the Blessed Sacrament in the Mary Chapel
Contact Lita Serrano, 707-319-1821
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Vocation Prayer
Loving God, You speak to us and nourish us through the life of The St Basil Parish Family. In the name of Jesus, we ask you to send your Spirit to us so that men and women among us, young and old, will respond to Your call to service and leadership in the church.
We pray especially, in our day, for those who hear your invitation to be a Priest, Sister, Brother, or Deacon.
May those who are opening their hearts and minds to your call be encouraged and strengthened through our enthusiasm in you service.
Amen
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Vocation Awareness Ministry ACTIVITIES
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We believe that our church needs to make known its continuing need for priests, sisters, brothers and deacons. We realize that the discernment of a religious vocation is between God and the person. We cannot manufacture vocations.
We believe our mission is to raise awareness of the need for vocation to religious life; spread the view that a vocation is a calling from God for a total commitment to serve his people; invite people, especially parents, who may see the spark of a vocation, to encourage it as something viable, to be explored and discerned, and encourage prayer for vocations.
In keeping with this mission, the committee sponsors the following activities:
The Vocation Crosses - two parish families take home each week one of our beautiful Vocation Crosses. Each family displays the cross in its home during the following week and prays each day for an increase of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
Holy Hour for Vocations - On the first Thursday of every month, parishioners are invited to join us in the Mary Chapel for one hour of prayer and silent reflection. Readings include a passage from scripture, such as Jeremiah 1:4-10, which recounts God's call to Jeremiah and his response. A second reading is a reflection on vocation. We rotate a beautiful passage from the writings of John Paul II, or one from Pope Benedict XVI or thoughts from a priest or parents of a priest. On a rotating basis, the various parish ministries sponsor this Holy Hour and provide the readers.
One-Day Pilgrimages - when finances have allowed, we have taken day trips to St. Patrick's Seminary where we meet with the Sacramento Seminarians and tour the facility and several convents for religious women both in the Sacramento and Oakland Diocese. We pray that we will be able to resume this annual activity as the economy improves.
Ordinations - Whenever possible, we as a committee attend ordinations in the Sacramento Diocese to the priesthood and to the temporary and permanent diaconate. Even if no one from our parish is being ordained, we do this in unity with Vocation Awareness Committees from other parishes and as a sign of our support for all candidates and seminarians.
The Vocations Ministry is open to members in good standing at St. Basil Catholic Church of high school age and older.
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