Camp Totus Tuus is coming! This summer, we will be expanding our Totus Tuus parish program to include separate day camps for boys and girls entering grades 6-8 and 9-12 in the fall of 2008. The day will include sports, food, discussions, prayer, Mass, and much more! Click here for more information or download the registration form.

World Youth Day is coming to Australia -
and Chicago! In solidarity with the youth from Chicago who will travel to Sydney, Australia, for World Youth Day 2008, youth in Chicago are invited to join in the experience!

Where: St. Hyacinth Basilica
When: July 19, 2008 - 2 to 10 p.m.
How: Check out the website

Called by Name
follow-up gatherings will occur throughout the summer in each vicariate. Those men nominated during the April Parish Program as having a potential vocation to the priesthood will be contacted in late May and invited to attend an event in their vicariate. Contact the Vocations Office for more information. Men and women who have been nominated as having a potential vocation to the religious life will be contacted by the Office for Religious.

Priesthood Ordination 2008
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., conferred 11 men with the Sacrament of Holy Orders on May 17, 2008, at St. Juliana parish in Chicago:

Rev. Juan Pablo Avila
Rev. Diego Berrio
Rev. Maciej Galle
Rev. Jose Maria Garcia
Rev. Michal Lewon
Rev. Thadeo Mgimba
Rev. Laurent Mhagama
Rev. Roberto Molina-Torres
Rev. Marcin Szczypula
Rev. Grzegorz Wojcik
Rev. Przemyslaw Wojcik

Read about the ordination and their inspiring stories in the Catholic New World.


And Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men."
Mark 1:17
 
Fr. Joe Noonan, Vocations Director
Archdiocese of Chicago

vocations@archchicago.org
www.chicagopriest.com