Vowed Religious Life & Holy Matrimony
- Vowed Religious (Brothers and Sisters)
- Deacons
- Priests
- Bishops & Cardinals
- The Pope
Vocations Lessons Links:
- Vocation Lessons online curriculum (student access code is KCHolyVocations *with no spaces*)
- Discerning God's Call videos (Rachel's Story & Nathan's Story)
- Discerning God's Call video watch-along-guide worksheet
- Office of Vocations in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Links to Videos about Religious Life:
- Why We Became Religious Sisters
- What it Means to be a Religious Sister
- Religious Sisters images from many orders & countries
- Light of Love full-length documentary about several Sisters' daily lives
- Wake Up the World: Benedictine Monks explain and invite you to consider a religious vocation
- Why do we need Monks? video
- Kansas Monks TV: Postulants (learn the first discernment steps toward monastic life)
- Kansas Monks TV: The Profession Edition (see the ceremonies that welcome new monks)
- Kansas Monks TV: A Monk's Life (learn about the daily life of modern monks)
- Kansas Monks TV: Meet Brother Leven
- Kansas Monks TV: Meet Fr. James Albers, Abbot
- Kansas Monks TV: A Year in Review (serving Kansas for 159 years!)
- Bishops, Priests, and Deacons (ordained ministers of the Catholic church)
- Being a Deacon (5 deacons share their experiences)
- The Mission of the Laity - a video from Pope Francis
- How is the Pope Chosen? find out!
- Pope Francis (get to know our current Pope through this cartoon)
- St. Pope John Paul II: get to know him through a child's eyes
- St. Pope John Paul II: Forgiveness (learn about the pope's response to the man who tried to assassinate him in 1981)
Links to Audio Files about Religious Life:
The Rite of Ordination for Priests:
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination I, the Election explained in an audio podcast
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination II, the Promises of the Elect explained in an audio podcast
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination III, the Litany of Supplication explained in an audio podcast
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination IV, the Laying on of Hands explained in an audio podcast
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination V, the Stole & Chasuble explained in an audio podcast
- 60 Seconds: Rite of Ordination VI, explained in an audio podcast
"We have a Pope!":
- "Habemus Papam!" - a series of podcasts about each of the popes in the history of the Catholic Church
Other Links of Interest:
- How Monks Helped Invent Sign Language with a link to a great video about what it is like to "lip-read".
- Whatever Happened to Villanova Basketball Star Shelly Pennefather? news article about a basketball star called to serve God as a cloistered nun