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Commission for the Pastoral Care for Religious Vocations

Address: Kaptol 29, 10000 Zagreb
Official website: www.nbs-zg.hr


Office and Commission for pastoral care of religious vocations of the Archdiocese of Zagreb are coordinating and animating pastoral activity in the Archdiocese that is related to religious vocations. One of its main roles is encouraging members of the church to persevering prayer for new religious vocations. The Commission also organises prayer meetings, vigils for religious vocations, especially before ordination and Good Shepherd Sunday, meetings for people who believe are called to serve God and meetings for altars servers and students.

The Commissioner, together with divinity students, often participates at Sunday masses in parishes of the Archdiocese thus encouraging people to prayer, and seminarians testify about their calling.

The Commission also cooperates with monastic commissions for religious vocations. Every divinity student, as a candidate for the priesthood is called to testify the joy of his calling and to encourage others to follow Christ enthusiastically. Divinity students and seminarians have been helping the Commission for the Pastoral Care for religious vocations in animation and promotion of new callings for years now. They help during the weekend meetings at the Inter-diocesan seminary in Šalata, vigils, but especially testifying their calling during the mass celebrations as guests in different parishes.

They also have their own radio show The Net of Life, which is broadcast on Radio Mary every first Wednesday of the month. In the show divinity students and candidates for religious orders talk about how God called them to serve him.

Divinity students, members of the Zagreb Divinity Students’ Octet and Divinity students’ band always include testimonies in their performances. The Commission for Pastoral Care for Religious Vocation consists of three members: Rev. Dubravko Škrlin, as commissioner, and Rev. Damir Ocvirk and Marko Ocvirek, as members of the Commission.

We invite all young people who hear God's call in their hearts, to contact us that we can help them to recognize their life's vocation.

Let us be courageous, let us say yes to our Lord!

Prayer for religious vocations

Oh, Almighty Lord,

At all times you choose and call people to follow your son Jesus Christ.

With faith we pray to you, renew your Church by the power of the Holy Spirit and give her holy priests who can by words and by their lives testify how kind and close to us you are.

Awaken in our families an openness and love of life to become a fertile ground for new religious vocations.

Touch with your look hearts of those who are searching for you, shape them with divine grace, instil  in them an unselfish desire that then can serve brothers and sisters and that they can surrender to You our joyful hope, who lives and reigns now and forever.

Amen.
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