Discernment Resources
Resources about Discernment
National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors
Institute for Priestly Formation
Resources about Consecrated Life
Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious
Leadership Conference of Women Religious
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
United States Conference of Secular Institutes
Vatican Library Resources
Lumen Gentium, (Light of the Nations) Dogmatic Constitution on the Church on the Authority, Identity, and Mission of the Church; See Chapter VI “Religious”, Second Vatican Council 1964
Perfectae Caritatis, (Perfect Charity) Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life; Pope Paul VI, 1965
Evangelica Testificatio (Evangelical Witness) Apostolic Exhortation on the Renewal of the Religious Life According to the Teaching of the Second Vatican Council; Pope Paul VI, 1971
Redemptionis Donum, (Gift of the Redemption) Apostolic Exhortation to Men & Women Religious on Their Consecration in the Light of the Mystery of the Redemption; Pope John Paul II, 1984
Vita Consecrata, (Consecrated Life) Post-Syndol Apostolic Exhortation on the Consecrated Life and its Mission in the Church & World; Pope John Paul II, 1996
Resources for Promoting & Supporting Vocations
Laboure Society (helps those who are called to consecrated life with educational debt)