by Editor | Mar 24, 2017 | Attracting vocations, Candidates
Good religious vocation candidates can be found with social media, using the right targeting. Here, Kevin Banet describes two Catholic candidates who were recruited through Facebook and Instagram ads. One is a young man from California interested in the priesthood,...
by Kevin Banet | Jan 7, 2017 | Attracting vocations, Come & See Program
As a vocation director, have you ever had a conversation that goes like this: “Well, then, when would you like to visit our community?” “Uh … I’m just not ready,” comes the hesitant response. Like shifting sands in a desert, there...
by Editor | Apr 29, 2015 | Attracting vocations, Vocation news
Live Jesus! In a new and uplifting video by the First and Second Federation of the Visitation, we are inspired by the tremendous lives of the Visitation Sisters, which is described beautifully: “We strive to listen to the Holy Spirit as Mary and Elizabeth did, so that...
by Kevin Banet | Apr 7, 2015 | Attracting vocations, Come & See Program
There are some awesome speakers at this weekend’s Institute on Religious Life National Meeting in the Chicago area. But your greatest advantage may lie outside of the halls of these stellar speakers. You see, there will be hundreds of young, faithful Catholics...
by Kevin Banet | Sep 24, 2014 | Attracting vocations, Facebook
Somewhere in a college lecture hall on the first day of the fall semester a bored student stares into space. Rather than listen to the speaker drone on about the campus rules, the student discretely scans his Facebook page. He sees a picture of a man in a cape riding...
by Kevin Banet | Aug 30, 2014 | Attracting vocations, Know who you are
From snails to celibacy In your high school biology class, you may have learned that some animals, such as slugs and snails, are hermaphrodites. That is, they are neither male nor female, but are both sexes. While your teacher years ago might have drawn snickers with...