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The annual men's discernment retreat, Quo Vadis, unfolds over the weekend of December 20-22, 2024. Vocations Director, Fr. Dan Morris expects nearly 80 young men at this year's edition. Read on for details and information about how you can help!

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Gratitude, especially for the small things, is a key response to the vocational call to holiness.

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A beautiful fall day greeted Serrans on their annual seminary visit, this year to St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, CO. Read about their visit and interaction with seminarians.

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You're comfortable in your role. Life is going along smoothly. Then you get a feeling akin to the anticipation of a slow curve ball in the seventh inning. What to do?

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To experience the miraculous, it is sometimes necessary to do the ridiculous.

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I wrote this note to my office staff in October 2010. I have re-worked it a bit here, so it makes sense reading it again 14 years later. God uses us everywhere He puts us. Don't miss an opportunity to be used . . . for His greater glory.

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I was able to catch up with Andrew Buyle and Zach McGuinness over a cup of coffee recently and came away grateful once again for the opportunity to learn more about the men in the midst of discerning God's call to the priesthood. While we chatted together, I found myself drawn into their reflections, their honesty, and their individual docility to God's call in their lives. Be inspired by the vocation stories of these two men.

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In a confession not long after moving back to the Kansas City area, I was given a penance that impacted me unlike any other. My confessor instructed me to say the Litany of Humility . . . three times! Startled at the instruction, my interior reaction was something like, "Wow, my pride must be much worse than I know." I had been given a prayer card years ago with the Litany of Humility printed on one side and an image of Our Lady of Grace on the other side. I had occasionally looked at it. I pulled it out and completed my penance. It's become a regular now.

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The Serra Clubs of Kansas City in Kansas and Johnson County in Kansas hosted the annual Seminarian Send-Off on Sunday, August 4, 2024, at St. Joseph Church in Shawnee, KS. Look inside to get the full experience.