Fostering Religious Vocations at School
Baking and Cooking: Bake or Cook a Catholic Recipe Related to a Saint or Order.
Baking or Cooking a Catholic recipe related to a saint or Holy Order (i.e. Heavenly Rose Garden Rose Cupcakes for Saint Thérèse or Oatmeal Carmelite Bars).
Build Community: Organize a Weekly Religious Movie Night/Lunch.
Each movie can focus on a different vocation of the Church (i.e, priests, nuns, monks).
Speakers and Tangible Examples: Organize a Religious Vocation Day.
Organize a time for priests and religious to speak to your students about vocations.
Clubs and School Life: Organize a Religious Vocation Club.
Each time the students meet they can do different activities associated with different saints in religious life (i.e., Saint Francis of Assisi was a friar).
Arts and Crafts: Bring Religious Vocations to Art.
Nun Paper Dolls, Paint a Chalice, Make a Nun’s Habit, Cloister Shoebox Diorama, Make a Monstrance.
Consecrated & Holy Day: Day to Experience Religious Life.
Organize a school-wide day where students take turns rotating through groups doing child-friendly activities that relate to the Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and other groups with parents as volunteers (i.e., Carmelites make paper flowers in honor of the Little Child of Jesus or the Benedictines play stop-and-pray game of tag.)
