Vocation and the Professions

How to Celebrate Vocation on Labor Day

August 26, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci 1 Comment

Many congregations celebrate Labor Day with a special blessing for workers or those searching for employment. In our work on vocation and professions, we have found several prayers, hymns, and blessings that lift up the holiness of ordinary, everyday work.

Work As Prayer

July 29, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

“Physicians and scientists, carpenters and realtors, you who work in the home caring for a household, children, or elder loved ones: you are already praying.”

Practices of Vocation

July 8, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

What practices support a sense of vocation? What are the communal Christian traditions—actions, attitudes or habits—that can shape our callings? Listen to Sherice’s story for a unique perspective on a spiritual practice that supports her sense of call.

What to call a calling?

June 24, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

Vocation or calling? Meaning or purpose? Part of the work of developing a richer theology of vocation is the work of translation: how to find meaningful and compelling terms to convey the depth of the concept in a culture that has largely lost the language of vocation.

Prayers and Hymns of Calling and Vocation

May 29, 2013 By Collegeville Institute 1 Comment

As part of the Collegeville Institute Seminars, we’ve created worship resources on vocation. Read the lyrics to the original song: "A Hymn of Calling."

A Feast of Ideas

May 22, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

Feedback from congregations in our Exploring Vocation in Community program reveals the transformative possibilities for communities who engage questions of calling with their members.

Vocation + Profession

May 8, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci 1 Comment

What would happen if more professionals understood their work as a calling? The Seminar on Faith, Vocation and the Professions is exploring the relationship between vocation and profession to retrieve a sense of calling and the common good that could promote greater well-being among professionals, their institutions, and the culture at large.

Story-telling and the examined life

May 1, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci 1 Comment

Our new video narrative project—Lives Explored—takes Socrates’ wisdom to heart. By sharing everyday stories of how people understand the concept of calling in their own life, we hope to energize and inspire others to do the same.

Defining vocation: guideposts and potholes

April 24, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

Kathleen A. Cahalan, director of the Collegeville Institute Seminars, has developed five points on the theology of vocation that is emerging in our project. These characteristics of God’s call can be guideposts for our journey of discerning what is and is not vocation.

Our 1st 3 Years

April 15, 2013 By Laura Kelly Fanucci Leave a Comment

Welcome to our new blog, Insights. We are excited to share here what we are learning in the Collegeville Institute Seminars. Here’s a brief summary of what the Seminars have been working on for the past three years.

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How to Celebrate Vocation on Labor Day

Work As Prayer

Practices of Vocation

What to call a calling?

Prayers and Hymns of Calling and Vocation

A Feast of Ideas

Vocation + Profession

Story-telling and the examined life

Defining vocation: guideposts and potholes

Our 1st 3 Years

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