Vocations Events
Encounter with God’s Call
Fall 2024 Encounter
November 15-17, 2024
Spring 2025 Encounter
March 28-30, 2025
What is Encounter?
Encounter With God’s Call is a seminary discernment experience for high school juniors through recent college graduates (ages 16-25). During Encounter, the participants further discern the call to priesthood and learn about college seminary life. Throughout the weekend, participants pray, meet, and relax with seminarians. Together we all seek to listen for God’s voice and our call.
“Quo Vadis” Retreat
Where are you going?
“Quo Vadis” translates to “Where are you going”: this weekend retreat is specifically organized to help young men answer this question, and other questions they might have about priesthood, seminary, and how to hear God’s voice in every day life.
1-DAY ENCOUNTER
for young men in grades 7 – 10
- Mass
- Talks by Seminarians
- Small Groups
- Gym time
- Campus Tours
- Prayer
- Lots more!!!
Come and See Dinners
John 1:45-46: Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth’. But Nathanael said to him “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
Hang out with dynamic priests, eat a delicious free meal, pray in a transformative way, and open your heart to what will really fulfill you—following Jesus’ will in your life…all in a casual setting.
Who should attend: Young men in high school and older
Priests of the diocese – we need your help! If there is a young man in your ministerial assignment that you believe would make a quality priest, please invite them to join you at the “Come and See” dinner.
Reach out to Father Rueb or Kelly to RSVP today.
Ordinations
Ordinations to the transitional diaconate and to the priesthood are usually held in May-June and are open to the public.
Upcoming ordinations:
Transitional Diaconate Ordination
- When: May 17, 2025
- Time: 10:00 AM
- Where: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, MO.
Priestly Ordination
- When: May 24, 2025
- Time: 10:00 AM
- Where: Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City, MO