Vocations Prayer Cross Kit
The Story:
Covid was a tough time to meet men and women who were feeling called to priestly and religious life. Where common interaction and connection was absent, so too was the absence of vocation education, conferences and important personal meetings to discuss entering seminary and religious life.
Fr. Dubroc celebrates his birthday with the three members of the St. Elizabeth Society
The Vocation Office, inspired by prayer of the Joyful Mystery (The Visitation) of the Rosary and regularly offering a Votive Mass for "Vocations to Holy Orders", decided to start a St. Elizabeth Society. The St. Elizabeth Society is composed of three volunteers (pictured left) who have the mission of doing what St. Elizabeth did when she saw Mary after they had both conceived, she affirmed Identity and in her vocation. She said, "Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb." The St. Elizabeth Society pray for vocations and seeks ways to better educate the community and support those called to priestly and religious life.
The hope was that each parish and/or school would purchase a Vocations Prayer Cross Kit that would be passed around to different families within the community. This could take place from week to week. The Kits were designed to be easy to handle, beautiful, prayerful and educational. The hope was that everyone in the diocese would have an opportunity to bring the Vocational Prayer Cross home to pray aloud as a family and to pray specifically for an increase to priestly and religious life and to pray for the priests in their own lives.
How Do I Sign Up For The Vocations Kit?
If you are interested in taking home a Vocations Prayer Cross Kit, please check the list of participating Church parishes below and contact your local Church office.
St. Mary Magdalen - Abbeville
St. Francis Regis - Arnaudville
St. Theresa of the Child Jesus - Abbeville
Sacred Heart of Jesus - Baldwin
St. Augustine - Basile
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Belaire Cove
St. Bernard - Breaux Bridge
St. Francis of Assissi - Breaux Bridge
Sacred Heart of Jesus - Broussard
St. Peter - Carencro
St. Joseph - Cecilia
Immaculate Conception - Charenton
Our Lady of Mount Carmel - Chataignier
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart - Church Point
Our Lady of Prompt Succor - Coteau
St. Anne - Cow Island
Immaculate Heart of Mary - Crowley
St. Michael the Archangel - Crowley
St. Francis - Cypremort Point
Our Lady of the Lake - Delcambre
St. Theresa of the Child Jesus - Duson
Our Lady of Lourdes - Erath
St. Margaret - Estherwood
Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Eunice
St. Anthony of Padua - Eunice
St. Mathilda - Eunice
St. Thomas More - Eunice
St. Francis - Franklin
St. Jules -Franklin
St. Charles Borromeo - Grand Coteau
St. Peter - Grand Prairie
St. Joseph - Iota
St. John the Evangelist - Jeanerette
St. Basil - Judice
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary - Kaplan
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist - Lafayette
Immaculate Heart of Mary - Lafayette
Our Lady of Fatima - Lafayette
Our Lady Queen of Peace - Lafayette
Our Lady of Widsom - LafayetteSt. Edmond - Lafayette
St. Elizabeth Seton - Lafayette
St. Jules - Lafayette
St. Leo the Great - Lafayette
St. Mary - Lafayette
St. Patrick - Lafayette
St. Pius X - Lafayette
St. Bridget - Lawtell
St. Catherine - Leonville
St. Jules - Leonville
St. Leo the Great - Leonville
St. Helena - Louisa
St. Nicholas - Lydia
St. John the Baptist - Lyons Point
St. Ann - Mamou
Holy Spirit - Mamou
St. Joseph - Maurice
St. John the Evangelist - Mermentau
St. Joseph - Milton
St. Bernadette - Morgan City
Nativity of Our Lady - New Iberia
Our Lady of Prompt Succor - New Iberia
St. Edward - New Iberia
St. Peter - New Iberia
Holy Ghost - Opelousas
Our Lady Queen of Angels - Opelousas
St. Landry - Opelousas
St. Joseph - Parks
St. Louis - Parks
St. Joseph - Patterson
St. Peter - Pine Prairie
Sacred Heart of Jesus - Port Barre
St. Mary - Port Barre
St. Joseph - Rayne
St. Edward - Richard
Our Lady Queen of All Saints - Ville Platte
Sacred Heart of Jesus - Ville Platte
St. Joseph - Ville Platte
Holy Trinity - Washington
Immaculate Conception - Washington
St. Anne - Youngsville
Schools with a Vocations Prayer Cross Kit
Vermilion Catholic School - Abbeville
Notre Dame High School - Crowley
Hanson Memorial High School - Franklin
St. Francis School - Iota
John Paul the Great Academy - Lafayette
Sts. Leo-Seton School - Lafayette
St. Thomas More High School - Lafayette
Teurlings High School - Lafayette
Rayne Catholic School - Rayne
Sacred Heart Schools - Ville Platte