What can parents do with their children to foster religious vocations?

Share time and stories as a family …

• Go through family photo albums. Share memories. Reminisce about the parents’ wedding, and parent baptisms, first communions, and confirmations.
  
• Talk about the children’s baptisms, first communions, and confirmations.
  
• Parents, share how you realized that God was calling you to be married. Invite children to ask questions.
  
• Parents, write a letter to each of your children telling them how special they are. Include your wish for them as they continue to grow.
  
• List names of priests, sister, brothers, and deacons you know. Pray for them. Write a note or send a thank card to one or more of them.
  
• Invite a local parish priest, sister, brother or deacon or lay minister to dinner to hear their vocation story.
  
• Compose a family vocations prayer together. Print and decorate it and hang it in a special place. Pray it often.
  
• As a family, select religious art for the home (pictures, posters, statues, crosses, candles). Purchase a family bible, children’s bible, prayer books, religious music, religious DVDs.
  
• Serve as a family at a soup kitchen, visit at a nursing home, or adopt an elderly person in your parish to assist.