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See — for use in displays and Collective Worship.

• Videos

• NDCYS interview with Deacon Lim Gamsi (one of our Diocesan

Seminarians whom we pray will be ordained in the summer) — https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsru4DnCwqk

• Becoming a Priest (a vlog from Deacon Lim) — https://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=sm5DPcEOH7w

• 5 things about Vocations from Fr Jonathan Cotton (Chaplain to NDCYS &

assistant Vocations Director — https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=5g_Fpx1tP6I

• Marriage by Catholic Central — an exploration of what the Church

believes about marriage and why it is a Sacrament and a Vocation —

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEhi7cM8lM

• All of us are called to make a difference — Kid President Pep talk for the

world — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zNHoYmhUI

• Ascension Presents has a number of videos on discerning God’s call,

Vocation to Religious life and Vocation to the single life. https://

www.youtube.com/channel/UCVdGX3N-WIJ5nUvklBTNhAw/videos

• Art for Displays or Website

• Vocation Posters — A school from each CMAT recently won a Diocesan

Competition to design a poster for vocations, the designs are on the

Diocesan vocations website

• Pictures of the parish priest with information of his vocation story, if there

is a religious community nearby the same could be done

• Pictures of recent Catholic marriages from the school or parish community

with information of their vocations story

• Display of former pupils who are carrying out vocational careers or are

living a religious vocation

How do we answer Jesus’ call to be His disciple

through the theme of Vocation?

Hear— try to show how this helps us see the connection between vocation

and being Jesus’ disciple.

• Scripture

• Long Sections

− The call of Moses (Exodus 3:1-12)

− Queen Esther is chosen to save God’s people (Esther 4:1-17)

− The Annunciation — Mary is Chosen (Luke 1:26-38)

− The woman at the well (John 4:1-42)

− The call of Saul (Acts 9:1-19)

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• Medium Sections

− The call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-10)

− Isaiah is chosen as a prophet (Isaiah 6:1-8)

− Peter is chosen as a disciple (Luke 5:1-11)

− Andrew is called as a disciple (John 1:35-42)

− Jesus calls Nathaniel and Philip (John 1:43-51)

− Mary Magdalene is called to share the Good News of the

Resurrection (John 20:11-18)

• Short Sections

− To pray for vocations (Matthew 9:35-39)

− Jesus calls four fisherman (Mark 1:14-20)

− Jesus calls Levi [Also called Matthew] (Mark 2:13-17)

− Peter is restored to friendship with Jesus (John 21:15-19)

− Timothy is reminded of his vocation (1 Timothy 4:12-16)

• Worship Music and Hymns — more can be found on www.worshiptogether.com

(modern worship music) or www.ocp.org (hymn more commonly found in hymn

books)

• Oceans by Hillsong UNITED

• Set apart by Tim Hughes

• Take my life (and let it be) by Chris Tomlin

• Follow me, follow me by Sr Madeleine Cuddy FCJ, and Michael Cockett

• Here I am Lord by Daniel L. Schutte

• Servant King by Graham Kendrick

• The Summons by John L. Bell

• Secular Music

• Wherever you may go by The Calling or a more reflective version by

Charlene Soraia

• A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman

Think — to help reflect on how God may be calling us through different

vocations to be a better disciple. • St John Mary Vianney (patron saint of parish priests) wrote a very thoughtful

reflection on the role of a priest https://www.fisheaters.com/holyorders2.html, a

section could be used to reflect on how we view priests

• The Church’s teaching on marriage. In 2014 and 2015 Bishops and catechists

from around the world met with Pope Francis to discuss how the Church

supports married couples and families. He responded to this meeting (called a

Synod) with a letter to Catholic families called Amoris Laetitia which means The

Joy of Love (this type of letter is called an Apostolic Exhortation). Here are

some quotations to think about

• “Few human joys are as deep and thrilling as those experienced by two

people who love one another and have achieved something as the

result of a great, shared effort.” (AL130)

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• Here let me say a word to fiancés. Have the courage to be different.

Don’t let yourselves get swallowed up by a society of consumption and

empty appearances. What is important is the love you share,

strengthened and sanctified by grace. You are capable of opting for a

more modest and simple celebration in which love takes precedence

over everything else. (AL212)

• The family is called to join in daily prayer, to read the word of God and

to share in Eucharistic communion, and thus to grow in love and

become ever more fully a temple in which the Spirit dwells. (AL29)

• The sacrament of marriage is not a social convention, an empty ritual or

merely the outward sign of a commitment. The sacrament is a gift given

for the sanctification and salvation of the spouses… Marriage is a

vocation, inasmuch as it is a response to a specific call to experience

conjugal love as an imperfect sign of the love between Christ and the

Church. (AL72)

• In 1980 a similar synod took place when St John Paul II was Pope. His

Apostolic Exhortation is called Familiaris Consortio, which means the fellowship

of family. Here are some quotations from this:

• Spouses are therefore the permanent reminder to the Church of what

happened on the Cross; they are for one another and for the children

witnesses to the salvation in which the sacrament makes them sharers.

(FC13)

• Thus the little domestic Church, like the greater Church, needs to be

constantly and intensely evangelized: hence its duty regarding

permanent education in the faith…the family, like the Church, ought to

be a place where the Gospel is transmitted and from which the Gospel

radiates…the future of evangelization depends in great part on the

Church of the home. (FC51-52)

• Prayer Ideas

• Asking Prayers

• For more vocations to the priesthood and religious life

• For our seminarians and priests

• For guidance to know what God is calling us to

• Thanking Prayers

• For our priests, deacons, nuns, sisters, friars and monks

• For calling us and giving the skills to live his call

• For those who work in vocational professions

• Discernment/Choices — Discernment is an important part of vocation.

Discernement is carefully and prayerfully considering the choices we have, to

see which God is calling us to. An activity to consider is how we make choices:

follow this LINK to a resource that can be used to do this. This can be used

with a class or as part of a Collective Worship

• All vocations (priesthood, religious life, marriage or the single life) are a means

to an end! They help us live out our first vocation to be holy, to be a saint. How

can we live that vocation now?

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Do • Diocesan Vocations Team: Fr Paul Newman and Canon Jonathan Cotton head

up our Diocesan Vocations Team. Please visit their website for lots of

information about vocations: www.nottinghamvocations.co.uk. The diocese

also has four County Priest Promotors connected with each CMAT (details

below). The Diocesan Vocations Directors and the County Priest Promoters

have material available for school visits, assemblies, careers events, with

Display material, prayer cards, leaflets and so on. They are gradually gathering

local teams around them to respond to requests from local schools and

parishes. The local promoters are:

• Our Lady of Lourdes CMAT (Nottinghamshire) – Fr Christopher Thomas,

The Assumption, Beeston

• St Thérèse of Lisieux CMAT (Lincolnshire) – Fr. Matthew Jakes, St Hugh’s

Church, Lincoln

• St Thomas Aquinas CMAT (Leicestershire) – Fr. John Owens, c/o St

Thomas More, Leicester

• St Ralph Sherwin CMAT (Derbyshire) – Canon Ka Fai Lee, Our Lady of

Lourdes, Mickleover

• Alumni Visits — invite past pupils back to share about their jobs/careers/

vocations and how that helps them to be a disciple

• Vocations Day — invite local clergy and religious to share their stories with

pupils, with the opportunity to ask them questions

• Design the perfect disciple/saint — What would the perfect disciple look like?

Design a perfect disciple but what they look like must tell us what their skills/

characteristics are! For example, if they think a disciple should be a good

listener they might need really big ears or many ears. If they need to be loving

they might need a big heart! The idea is that what is created looks nothing like

a real person because the perfect disciple doesn’t exist. God is calling us to be

his disciple, this does not mean we have to be perfect

• Write a ‘job advert’ for a disciple, nun, priest, deacon, husband/wife (LINK)

This is an opportunity to explore what is needed to live out these vocations

• Write a letter to a seminarian of our diocese to encourage him in his

discernment and training to be a priest. Current Seminarians and addresses:

Final Year — Deacon Lim Gamsi, St Mary’s College Oscott, Chester Road,

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5AA. Pre-Seminary Year Gregory Tomlin

and Maurice Taylor Real Colegio de Ingleses, Calle Don Sancho 22, 470002,

Valladolid, SPAIN.

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R.E. Links • GCSE:

• Topic: Evangelisation — central to all vocations is the call to share our

faith with others. Pope Francis’s first Apostolic Exhortation Evangelli

Gaudium is focused on Evangelisation, how and why we are called to it

• Topic: Sin and Forgiveness looks at the sacraments including Marriage

and Holy Orders

• Important Document: Lumen Gentium is one of the four major documents

of the Second Vatican Council. Saint Paul VI saw this document as the

main focus of Vatican II, and the main focus of the document (and

therefore the Council) being the ‘Universal Call to Holiness’, which is our

first and most important vocation. This can be found in Chapter V (LG 39-

42)

• Come and See — Topic 2 on Belonging/Baptism/Vocations/Life Choices, will

be a great foundation for this topic and help recall the knowledge from this

topic last term

Remember! It can be easy to get carried a way with doing things but it is important to

remember that our focus on Vocation is not just about exploring different vocations

but is a away of showing that there are many different ways we can respond to the

call of discipleship. At the forefront of what we do should be the question: How will

this focus on vocation help our community better answer Jesus’ call to be his

disciple today?

Produced by the Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocesan Education Service with the

St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust