From November 4-8, 2010, over 500 vocation directors from more than 140 religious institutes met in Cleveland, Ohio at the bi-annual National Religious Vocation Conference Convocation (http://www.nrvc.net/). Representatives came from as far away as Sydney, Australia, and Dublin, Ireland. There were keynote speeches on "Globalization: Spirituality, Solidarity, and Sustainability," "Vocation Ministry with Cyber-citizens,"  and "Vocation Ministry in a Globalized Nation." Workshops were offered on a number of topics from working with African-American or Latino-Hispanic candidates to methods of vocational discernment and best practices in Campus Ministry. To cap off the convocation, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, who has served as a papal ambassador on four continents, shared his personal insights on vocation ministry here in the United States.

As our formation documents explain, "Committing oneself to Assumptionist religious life calls for a certain number of basic qualities in order to be able to deal with the exigencies of apostolic religious life:

+ a sufficiently balanced character
+ an aptitude for life in common
+ those human virtues emphasized by Fr. d'Alzon - uprightness, frankness, human warmth, simplicity, initiative, boldness, generosity and disinterestedness.

1. Initial Contact

Interested individuals usually engage in written correspondence for some time, then come for one or more visits before requesting a period of residency in one of our communities.

For English-speaking candidates in North America, please contact:

Fr Richard E. Lamoureux, a.a.
Vocation Director
512 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609

assumption.vocmin@gmail.com