Helping vocations to priesthood and religious life

"People often ask us how they can help promote vocations. Absolutely the first way is to pray the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers into His vineyard. In our culture today, men and women need the help of our prayer in order to hear the tiny whisper of the Lord amid the noise and distractions of this world. It's not easy to hear a whisper with a cell phone on one ear and an ipod on another!

"Young men and women need encouragement to follow Christ's call; parents need encouragement to not only accept but to be supportive and grateful that their son or daughter is being called by God to a life of total consecration.

"Another way, is to support endeavors such as the Fraser Family Foundation which make it possible in very real and practical ways for the future of religious life to be a reality.

"The Fraser Family Foundation has two programs: The Mater Ecclesiae Debt Relief Grant Program whose purpose is: 'Through the Mater Ecclesiae grant program, we seek to accelerate and to prevent the abandonment of vocations by guaranteeing the eventual retirement of the student loans of men and women who have generously answered a call to religious life' and the St. John Vianney Debt Relief Grant Program which is similar: 'Through the St. John Vianney grant program, we seek to accelerate and to prevent the abandonment of vocations by guaranteeing the eventual retirement of the student loans of men who have generously answered a call to the diocesan priesthood.'

"Please consider helping the Fraser Family Foundation continue this essential service to the Church and to Religious Life by making a charitable donation. You can easily make a tax exempt donation online. For more information go to: HOW YOU CAN HELP or send a cheque to:

Fraser Family Foundation
2513 N. Quantico Street
Arlington, VA 22207

"May God bless and reward you for your generosity!

"PLEASE tell others about the Fraser Family Foundation, especially if you have a blog!"

from the blog Moniales OP
the Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of the Rosary Monastery
Summit, New Jersey