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Vocations Chairman

The primary responsibility of the council or assembly vocations chairman is to ensure the proper and complete implementation of the RSVP program at the local level. He should work with the state vocations chairman to ensure that every seminarian sponsored by the diocese or dioceses, and every religious novice in his jurisdiction is included in RSVP.

When it is certain that every diocesan seminarian and religious novice is covered, the local chairman may also contact the vocations directors of religious orders or the rectors and directors of seminaries and houses of formation within his jurisdiction. (The Official Catholic Directory will tell you who they are.) Once the RSVP program is properly organized and operating, the council or assembly vocations chairman, in cooperation with the vocations committee and the local officers, should look into ways of assisting parishes, seminaries, houses of formation, monasteries, and/or other religious institutes with programs to promote priestly and religious vocations.

The chairman is responsible for conducting the committee meetings needed to develop and carry out his council’s or assembly’s vocations efforts. He must motivate his brother Knights to promote priestly and religious vocations, with particular emphasis on RSVP. In this regard, the chairman may seek the help of his district deputy. Upon completing his term, he should share what he has learned with the incoming vocations chairman. Like state chairmen, local chairmen will also benefit from reading Pope John Paul’s I Will Give You Shepherds, as well as the yearly papal Day of Prayer for Vocations messages (see above).