The newly appointed Vocations Promotion Team has met and is beginning to plan for the year ahead. As the Novena season begins it is often a time when men show interest in discerning our way of life. If you are approached by someone interested in more information on Redemptorist vocation or would like to have a conversation about discerning their vocation can you guide them to the following points of contact.
The province website: www.redemptorists.ie
The vocations email: vocations@redemptorists.ie
The vocations office telephone number: (Dublin) 01 4067221
The postal address: Redemptorist Missionaries, Vocations Office, Marianella, 75 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
People may also be referred directly to:
Ciaran O’Callaghan CSsR , in Dublin 01 4067100 ciaran.ocallaghan@redemptorists.ie
Noel Kehoe CSsR , in Clonard, Belfast: 028-90 445950 (048- from South) noel.kehoe@redemptorists.ie
Brian Nolan CSsR , Scala in Cork, 021 4358800 brian.nolan@redemptorists.ie
All queries will be directed accordingly to a member of the team.
We ask for your prayers and support as we begin our ministry of vocation promotion.
With prayers and good wishes.
Claire Carmichael, Brian Nolan CSsR, Ciaran O’Callaghan CSsR and Noel Kehoe CSsR
Hold me back! Let me at it! No time like the present!
‘How will they call on him if they have not come to believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard of him? And how will they hear of him unless there is a preacher for them? And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As scripture says: How beautiful are the feet of the messenger of good news’. (Romans 10:14,15).
A ‘Missionary’ is someone who is given a ‘mission’, ie. sent to do a task,- in this case, to tell the world the good news of God in Christ. ‘Apostle’ is the very same, from the Greek word ‘Apostellein’- to send out. In St. John’s Gospel, Jesus speaks of himself over forty times as the one who is ‘Sent’, sent by the Father to the world. Is Jesus inviting you to come, follow him, steep yourself in him, be filled with his Spirit, and ‘go out to all the world and spread the Good News’ ? What’s he doing in your life, at this moment?
Would you like to ‘get lost‘? Click here for more!
Year for the Redemptorist Missionary Vocation
The Year for the Redemptorist Missionary Vocation has begun
The theme is: Witnesses and Missionaries of Redemption: Jesus calls you by your name (cf. 1Samuel 3) to proclaim the year of the Lord’s grace (Luke 4,18)
Fr Michael Brehl, Superior General writes:“May this Year for the Promotion of the Redemptorist Missionary Vocation inspire all of us – Confreres, Sisters, Lay Redemptorist Missionaries and young people – to a deeper renewal of our identity as Witnesses and Missionaries of Redemption! With St. Alphonsus, may we ‘follow the example of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, by preaching the Word of God to the poor” (C. 1) with passion, creativity, joy and hope’.”
- ‘Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.’ Luke 5:11. (Painting by Seamus Devitt C.Ss.R.)
The newly appointed Vocations Promotion Team has met and is beginning to plan for the year ahead. As the Novena season begins it is often a time when men show interest in discerning our way of life. If you are approached by someone interested in more information on Redemptorist vocation or would like to have a conversation about discerning their vocation can you guide them to the following points of contact.
The province website: www.redemptorists.ie
The vocations email: vocations@redemptorists.ie
Find us on www.redsvocations.ie
People may also be referred directly to:
Ciaran O’Callaghan C.Ss.R, Clonard Monastery, 028-90 445950 (048- from South) ciaran.ocallaghan@redemptorists.ie
Noel Kehoe CSsR , in Clonard, Belfast: 028-90 445950 (048- from South) noel.kehoe@redemptorists.ie
Brian Nolan CSsR , Scala in Cork, 021 4358800 brian.nolan@redemptorists.ie
All queries will be directed accordingly to a member of the team.
We ask for your prayers and support as we begin our ministry of vocation promotion.
With prayers and good wishes.
Claire Carmichael, Brian Nolan CSsR, Ciaran O’Callaghan CSsR and Noel Kehoe CSsR
Hold me back! Let me at it! No time like the present!
‘How will they call on him if they have not come to believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard of him? And how will they hear of him unless there is a preacher for them? And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As scripture says: How beautiful are the feet of the messenger of good news’. (Romans 10:14,15).
A ‘Missionary’ is someone who is given a ‘mission’, ie. sent to do a task,- in this case, to tell the world the good news of God in Christ. ‘Apostle’ is the very same, from the Greek word ‘Apostellein’- to send out. In St. John’s Gospel, Jesus speaks of himself over forty times as the one who is ‘Sent’, sent by the Father to the world. Is Jesus inviting you to come, follow him, steep yourself in him, be filled with his Spirit, and ‘go out to all the world and spread the Good News’ ? What’s he doing in your life, at this moment?
Would you like to ‘get lost‘? Click here for more!
Click here to read about New Evangelisation and St. Alphonsus Liguori, from The Sunday Visitor.
- Feast of the Epiphany 2014: Pope Francis accepts a lamb from the crib, at the Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Rome.
The priest Alphonsus de Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists in 1732 in Scala, near Naples in Italy, again and again quoted John 21:15 and following, where Jesus addresses Simon Peter: ‘Simon, do you love me…? ” Peter replied: ‘Lord, you know that I love you!’, and Jesus said to him ‘Feed my lambs, feed my sheep!‘ Alphonsus was telling Redemptorists of his own and every generation that the very heart of their missionary vocation is to go out to the world and feed God’s people with the Word of God. ‘Do you love me?‘, Jesus says to every Redemptorist: ‘Then, feed my lambs, feed my sheep!’. That’s the call to Redemptorists and Redemptoristines and all who work with them, to share the news of God’s healing redemption, the joy of the Gospel of Christ, with all to whom they minister.
Please join us in prayer that there will be many young men and women who will hear and answer the same call, today. If you could invite two friends or acquaintances to make up a prayer triangle, then this would be a powerful prayer, remembering Matthew 18:19-20, ‘If two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.’
- Icon of St. Alphonsus de Liguori, in Redemptorist Community Chapel in Esker.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori is known in the Church as ‘the mediator of the charism of redemption.’ That is the work of Redemptorists, as well.
Click here for more information about Alphonsus de Liguori and his spirituality.
- Pope Paul VI, recently (October 1914) declared a Blessed of the Church.
Click here for ‘What Blessed Pope Paul VI said spontaneously to a Redemptorist Gathering, in 1973.’ - ‘Be among the people, get as close to the people as you can.’ (See full text.)
For a link to Vocations Ireland, go towww.vocationsireland.com.
A Redemptorist Ireland Website
Good day Father,
I’m in Nigeria and I wish to study for Roman Catholic priesthood under your congregation. What can I do?
Thaddeus, Apologies for not noticing your message until today, June 14th. You can try and make contact with the Nigerian Redemptorists. They are in Satellite Town in Lagos, and in other places. You could contact them on Facebook, with the following connection: https://www.facebook.com/Redemptorist-Vice-Province-of-Nigeria. I hope this works for you. If not, please contact us again. God bless you. Seamus Devitt, Redemptorist.
Thanks for the good work you reach to the people’ of God of preaching the good news of the gospel .
I love the congregation, and I wish to be part and parcel of it. I would like to help the poor and needy, partake in the propagation of the Gospel.