Horizon vocation journal

07/19/2025

Don't miss HORIZON's award winning article, "Hollowed and hallowed: vocation minister as leader into the future," by Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M. This piece recently earned a 3rd place for best analytical writing from the Catholic Media Association.https://julievieira.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024_horizon_3_summer_j_vieira.pdf IHM Sisters

07/08/2025

Don't miss this award-winning article about how trauma affects religious communities and what vocation directors need to know. Login and read: https://nrvc.net/451/publication/5004/article/30005-trauma-can-impact-candidates-and-communities Thank you, Stephen Carroll, Ph.D., of Saint Luke Institute, for this wisdom-filled article.

06/30/2025

Congratulations to these award-winning HORIZON writers, who were recently honored by the Catholic Media Association: (clockwise) Stephen T. Carroll, author of "Trauma can impact candidates and communities," Sean Reynolds, author of "Gifts and challenges of older candidates," and julie vieira, ihm (SIC), author of "Hollowed and hallowed: vocation minister as leader into the future." Find details about these awards and those of our sister publication, VISION, at nrvc.net/328/publication/4459/article/27824-nrvc-publications-earn-5-awards. Sisters

06/27/2025

"Humor is a most beneficial medicine, and we would all do well to take a daily dose of it." That's just one bit of advice from Sister Michele Vincent Fisher, C.S.F.N. in her HORIZON article "Strike a healthy, hopeful balance as a vocation minister." Login and learn her other insights here: https://nrvc.net/455/publication/5008/article/28690-strike-a-healthy-hopeful-balance-as-a-vocation-minister Sister Michele belongs to the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth in the USA.

06/20/2025

In honor of Juneteenth, why not take in two of our articles about inviting African American Catholics into religious life? Thank you to our interviewees: Father Patrick Winbush, O.S.B. (then Brother) of the Newark Abbey - Benedictine Monks, Sister Gayle Lwanga Crumbley, R.G.S. of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Father Joseph Brown, S.J. of the Midwest Jesuits nrvc.net/341/publication/4762/article/24007-let-s-welcome-the-gift-of-african-american-vocations nrvc.net/341/publication/4762/article/26394-can-we-let-candidates-bring-their-whole-selves-to-community (Photo courtesy of Catholic Extension)

06/13/2025

Vocation ministry demands a personal touch, but there still may be room for artificial intelligence for certain tasks. Thank you, Dan Masterton, communications director for the Viatorians, for this balanced coverage. nrvc.net/horizon_issue

06/04/2025

Thank you, Father Jeffrey Kirch, C.PP.S. for your insights in HORIZON about how synodality provides a path forward for religious communities. Father Kirch is a province director of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, United States Province and president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men His article is in our latest edition: https://nrvc.net/horizon_issue.

05/27/2025

HORIZON is honored to carry an article by Sister Elizabeth M. Davis, R.S.M. that explores God's call in Scripture, tying the way God calls various Biblical characters to synodality. Sister Elizabeth belongs to the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland, Canada and is part of the Queen's College, Faculty of Theology in Newfoundland, Canada. Find her article at nrvc.net/horizon_issue . Mercy International Association of Mercy of the Americas

05/15/2025

We are grateful to Sister Juliet Mousseau, R.S.C.J. for her fresh look at the vows in our latest edition, nrvc.net/horizon_issue, "To know and be known: a brief theology of the vows." Sister Juliet is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart United States - Canada Province

04/30/2025

Our Spring edition is now online! Our writers look at longstanding traditions with fresh eyes. Consider a contemporary theology of the vows. Examine scripture call stories with synodality in mind. And more... nrvc.net/horizon_issue

04/21/2025

Among his many accomplishments, Pope Francis elevated religious life, by virtue of belonging to the Jesuits, by drawing attention to it during the 2015 Year of Consecrated Life, and more. May he rest in peace. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis-dies-on-easter-monday-aged-88.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJzM6BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHk-3uwkhZgA6NOVmDKOkSEUgHSfH1c77OU4PuQqb8hByb_im2sh-leH0GodS_aem_ZTR0LWkLRV9fYexIQ5Y8pA

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.

02/13/2025

HORIZON appreciates Saint Luke Institute, which shares our mission of healthy, robust consecrated life. Men's religious communities, check out SLI's Foundations resources:

“We are required to consolidate, strengthen and develop what we have in the seminary, in a process that may help clergy mature in the human dimension, which is always journeying; growing spiritually…