How does the Legionary-run vocation site help diocesan vocation directors?
Vocation.com has become a leading resource on the internet for young men and women discerning a vocation to the priesthood or consecrated life. Begun as a project of the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement, it has always had a focus of helping each individual discern his or her true vocation, wherever that might lead. Toward this end, the Legionaries have held strategy sessions with diocesan vocation directors and are collaborating with the Bishops office for vocations. Father Anthony Bannon, LC, who has written three books on vocational discernment and personally answers many inquiries a month from visitors to vocation.com, has analyzed the Legionaries experience and made a number of observations he believes can help diocesan vocation directors: We realized that in many cases we were barely tapping the potential for good vocational cultivation in parishes and dioceses. Seeing how busy pastors are, and how limited the Father Anthony Bannon (Picture: Guillermo G. Balta
