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CANCELLED: Monthly Holy Hour for Vocations-March 19th

Posted on March 17, 2020 in: Vocations, Canceled Events

This Holy Hour is cancelled as a precaution to halt the spread of the Coronavirus. Join us March 19, 6 pm. at St. Joseph Church, Chester as we pray for men to answer the call to be instruments of God’s grace as priests and for women to answer the call to consecrated life. ...

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Vocations Corner

Posted on February 15, 2020 in: News, Vocations

Father Gregory Galvin, Director of Priestly Vocations During New Year’s week, more than 8,500 Catholic college students, Focus Missionaries, priests and religious from across the country and around the world gathered for a four-and-a-half-day national conference on the Catholic faith. It...

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Vocations, Norwich, Catholic, Priests

Pope Francis' Amazon Exhortation Calls for Holiness

Posted on February 12, 2020 in: News, Vocations

By Courtney Mares Vatican City (CNA) - Pope Francis published his response to the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod in an apostolic exhortation Wednesday. Despite widespread speculation following the synod, the pope does not call for married priests, but seeks to expand "horizons b...

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Mass, Catholic, Priests, Pope, Francis

Monthly Holy Hour for Vocations

Posted on February 09, 2020 in: Events, Vocations

Join us February 20, 6 p.m. at St. Joseph Church, Norwich as we pray for men to answer the call to be instruments of God’s grace as priests and for women to answer the call to consecrated life. March Holy Hour for Vocations will take place March 19, 6 p.m. at St. Joseph Church, C...

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Jubilarians Renew Vows at Mass for Consecrated Life

Posted on February 04, 2020 in: News, Vocations

Those who have devoted their lives to God’s calling gathered to celebrate and renew that commitment at the Mass of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Consecrated Life on February 2nd at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in Norwich. Six Jubilarians marked anniversaries of between 25 and 65 years of con...

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Norwich, Mass, Catholic

Vocations Corner

Posted on January 30, 2020 in: Vocations

Father Gregory Galvin, Director of Priestly Vocations Hallelujah to our newborn King, Christ the Lord! My hope is that you experienced a merry Christmas filled with many blessings of joy, peace, faith and divine love! It’s amazing how quickly Advent and Christmas came and went. Who co...

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Vocations, Norwich, Catholic

Annual Mass of Consecrated Life

Posted on January 21, 2020 in: Events, Vocations

On Sunday, February 2, the annual Mass of Thanksgiving for the Gift of Consecrated Life will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. in the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Norwich. All are invited to join Bishop Michael R. Cote in thanking God for the gift of consecrated life and for the sisters, b...

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Norwich, Mass, Catholic

In Memoriam: Sister Margaret Miriam Higgins

Posted on January 16, 2020 in: News, Vocations

Sister Margaret Miriam Higgins of the Sisters of Mercy died peacefully at the age of 94 on January 11, 2020 at St. Mary Home in West Hartford. Born and raised in New London she was the daughter of Arthur Higgins and Anna Green Higgins. Sister entered the Sisters of Mercy on July 1, 1944 and profe...

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Obituary

Monthly Holy Hour for Vocations

Posted on January 09, 2020 in: Events, Vocations

Join us at St.Mary Church in Jewett City at 6pm on January 16, 2020 as we pray for men to answer the call to be instruments of God’s grace as priests and for women to answer the call to consecrated life. February Holy Hour for Vocations will take place at St. Josep...

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Adoration

Former Student Honors Sister Barbara Gould

Posted on January 09, 2020 in: News, School News, Vocations

Sister Barbara Gould, R.S.M. gets a big surprise during the annual Teachers' Institute held on November 12 at the Holiday Inn in Norwich. Dr. Patrick Slattery, Executive Director of the Xaverian sponsored schools was the keynote speaker for the Institute. Sister Barbara was his elem...

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Norwich, Catholic

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Annual Report Finds There Are ‘Not Enough’ Deacons Being Ordained in the U.S.

Posted on June 24, 2025 in: News, Vocations

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Annual Report Finds There Are ‘Not Enough’ Deacons Being Ordained in the U.S.

The number of ordinations of permanent deacons in the United States has decreased by nearly 200 from 2023 to 2024, according to a recent survey. The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University published the survey results in its 2025 report “A Portrait of the Permanent Diaconate in 2024.” According to the report, 587 men were ordained to the permanent diaconate in 2023, but in 2024, the number fell to 393. The report was created in collaboration with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (US...

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