High School | Lesson Five
Theme: Listening and Responding
Topic: How to discern one’s vocation
Overview
Students will identify ways to foster a life open to hearing God’s call to their vocation. They will recall the process for entering into one’s vocation.
Additional Student / Classroom Resources
Video: Father Mike Schmitz- How to Discern
8 min. video- Father gives very practical and simple steps to live a life open to discerning God’s will.
Video: Louise & Zelie Martin
parents of St. Therese of Lisieux (2 min) beautiful video testimony to the vocation to marriage. Louis and Zelie are the first saints to be canonized as a couple.
Video: A Vocation Story: Falling in Love
6 min video- Fr. Colin Wen, a priest of the Diocese of Sacramento, tells how God called him to the Catholic priesthood. Funny.
Video: Sisters of Charity- Sister Gabriela
3 min. video- Sister Gabriela, a Sister of Charity, shares how she discerned her vocation to Religious Life.
Video: Stages of Formation- slideshow
1 min. video illustrating the different stages in formation for the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles
Website: Stages of Formation | Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles
Website with information about the process of formation in religious life
Website: Stages of Formation | Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia
Website with information about the process of formation in religious life
Video: A Day in the Life of a Seminary
4 min. video slideshow with music showing a day in the life of a seminary in Italy.
Website: Guided Meditations and Rosary Meditations
A variety of Holy Hour meditations and guided meditations based on Scripture are compiled by the Carmelite Sisters and available to download.
Resources for Parents & Teachers
Website: Discerning Your Vocation
Daughters of St. Paul
Website: How to Discern the Elements of Your Personal Vocation
Arlington Diocese