by Kevin Banet | Aug 4, 2017 | Books, discernment
Need help in directing others on how to discern religious life? If you’re a vocation director at a small religious community, you might not have the experience of working with many young women or men discerning religious life. Thus, you lack the knowledge that...
by Kevin Banet | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s always good to take cues from the experts. Who else is better suited to write a book on vocations than the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist? As you probably know, the sisters in Ann Arbor, MI are the Olympians of the religious world today. You...
by Kevin Banet | Jun 24, 2017 | Candidates, Case study, Come & See Program
Do you want new vocations? We all do. So you get dozens, or hundreds of names from a service such as Vocation Match, or Vocations Placement, and start making phone calls. Or send brochures. Ugh! This is time consuming. And you know that most of them won’t really...
by Kevin Banet | Jun 23, 2017 | Attracting vocations, Facebook
Facebook has recently expanded its ad platform to those age 13-17. This is a great boon to vocation promoters, such as vocation directors, since now we can reach children at a time of their life when they should be thinking about their life’s calling. I remember years...
by Kevin Banet | Jun 18, 2017 | priesthood
Vocation directors often must explain to others the difference between diocesan priests and religious order priests. We send a newsletter to our religious clients’ mailing lists to explain the difference.