Best Practices of Campus Ministry for Vocations
Eucharistic Adoration
- Make it available often, daily if possible
- Preach on the true Presence
Confession
- Creates an awareness of sin, and a need for mercy
- Leads students to strive for greater conversion
Spiritual Direction
- Teaches them the importance of daily prayer
- Holds them accountable for prayer
- Instills in them a fundamental call to holiness
Pilgrimage/Retreat/Conference
- 'jump starts' the spiritual life
- Takes them out of their normal surroundings to encounter God
Service Projects. Seminary Visits/Nun runs or bring Seminarians and young Sisters to visit the Campus
Discernment Groups
- Helps each student to realize they are called specifically by God
- Groups let them know they are not alone and that others can help them on their journey
Cultivating Christ-centered friendships
- Teaches them how to have fun in a holy and wholesome way
Daily Presence of Priests or Sisters
- Students need to see priests or sisters at prayer on a daily basis
- They also need to interact with them on a daily basis
Catechetical Formation
- This could be number one but young Catholics generally do not know their faith
- Introducing to the riches of the intellectual patrimony of the Church opens them to a deeper understanding of God and their role in God's plan