Summary of the Third Continental Congress on Vocations in North America (2022)

The Executive Summary of the Pastoral Plan for The Third Continental Congress on Vocations to the Ordained Ministry and Consecrated Life in North America

18-21 APRIL 2002 MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, CANADA “VOCACIÓN, DON DE DIEU, GIVEN FOR GOD’S PEOPLE”

At the close of the Continental Congress on Vocations in April 2002, each of the 1136 delegates was commissioned to return to home and office, family and parish, diocese and community to construct a vocation culture in the Catholic Church in North America. The working out of particular pragmatic details was left to every faith community, and considerable progress has already been made.  Before the Third Continental Congress (the first was in Latin America in 1994; the second in Europe in 1997), more than 10,000 Catholics from all walks of life in Canada and the United States participated in Diocesan/Regional Vocation Congresses; the results of these mini-congresses informed the work of the delegates at the Continental Congress.  Now all parishes, dioceses, congregations, organizations, and conferences are asked to construct an action plan that will be sent to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, so that the work planned and begun will be reflected in a Pastoral Plan for Vocations for the United States.  This summary of the final document from the Congress is designed to inspire more prayer, more thought, and more action in all sectors of Catholic life in the United States.

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