Pope warns religious communities who have stopped using the word because they think young people are scared by it that this is “a strategy doomed to failure.”

If we want to generate a culture of vocations, it is not going to happen in isolation, it is certainly not going to happen if we are not investing in youth ministry.

Pope Francis releases message for 2018 World Day of Prayer for Vocations.

One vocations director voiced the challenge: “It is irresponsible to give up. I don’t know but perhaps all of these changes have to happen within ourselves and our own willingness to change and be opened to a new way of doing things.”

“It is an occasion where hundreds of thousands of people gather. Wherever people gather is the place to be and it is what Pope Francis wants us to do – to get out and be out among the people,” says Bishop Fintan Monahan.

“Vocations are born in prayer and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit” – Pope Francis.

We are refocusing our way of communicating with young people – Vocations Ireland

Eight female congregations will provide information about vocations and the role a Sister can play in assisting the more vulnerable in society.

Grant totals €268,000 over three years and is intended is help Vocations Ireland support and nurture vocations to the consecrated religious life in Ireland today.

As well as a second Samuel group in Cork, it is hoped that another group will start in Dublin.

It was a year of listening, observing and seeing where the real needs are & work has started on helping vocations directors up-skill: Vocations Ireland.

Ploughing Championships is exactly where the Church should be in 2015 - in the middle of the field, in the marketplace, among the crowds: Bishop Nulty.

Over 1,000 suggestions sent in for the 'Poem for the Ploughing' competition and the six chosen by Bishop Nulty will be on display in the Kildare & Leighlin tent.

New laywoman appointed director of Vocations Ireland says people will be encouraged to look at vocation in a wider sense.

Two men and one woman join the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) and the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH).

Those interested in religious life looking for strong sense of community, prayer, Eucharist and a clear identity in the order.

Call for ‘culture of discernment’ to accompany young people on journey to religious life.

Irish delegates attend major European Vocations Service conference in Rome.