The St. Therese Vocation Society is an intentional prayer society beginning in our Diocese on her feast day, October 1^st. As a cloistered nun in a Carmelite Monastery, St. Therese of Lisieux knew deeply the call of God within her. She responded to her “vocation of love” with confidence and embraced the sacrifices that God asked of her. St. Therese was known especially for her prayers for priests and her desire to be “an apostle to apostles.” This is a fantastic opportunity for those who are homebound, suffering from illness, or anyone who wishes to join us in intentional prayer and sacrifice for vocations within our Diocese from home.

Members of the St. Thérèse Vocation Society will pledge to:

1. Offer daily prayers for an increase of vocations and the sanctification of our priests and seminarians.
2. Make a Holy Hour each week (in Church or at home) for an increase in vocations in our diocese, for the perseverance of the seminarians now studying for the priesthood and the men and women in formation for consecrated life.
3. Attend Mass once a month (illness excusing) for these same intentions.
4. Offer any sufferings they may experience for an increase in vocations in our diocese and an increase in zeal, fervor and grace for our priests, deacons and consecrated religious men and women serving our diocese.

To register for the St. Therese Vocation Society and receive regular correspondence, click here.

Divine Jesus, listen to this prayer I make as I turn with confidence to you for those whom you are calling to follow you as priests within our Diocese. Protect them in the midst of the dangers and temptations in our world; make them feel more and more the nothingness and vanity of fleeting things and the grace to find their happiness in your love. Your protection is already exerted over those who surround them: may they be faithful disciples, close collaborators in your vineyard and men worthy of your Sacred Heart. 

Oh Mary, sweet Queen of Carmel, I entrust to you the soul of these future priests. Share with them the depths of love with which you touched the Divine Child Jesus and how you wrapped him in swaddling clothes so that they one day might go up the Holy Altar and carry the King of Heaven in their hands. I ask you again to always protect them in the shade of your virginal mantle until the happy moment when, on leaving this valley of tears, they will be able to contemplate with you the splendor of God and enjoy the fruit of this glorious apostolate for the whole of eternity!

May the sacrifices and prayers I make bear fruit through the powerful intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux, for an increase in good and holy vocations to the priesthood and religious life within our Diocese of Owensboro. Amen.