Increase Vocations to the Priesthood – Part 6
Summer Internship Program
Catholics Tools by Jason Buck
Organize a summer internship program with Franciscan University, Ave Maria College, Christendom, and other orthodox Catholic colleges. These students could work for the vocations office and help plan, organize, and coordinate every project talked about in this series. In return you could offer them free room and board, access to the sacraments, access to theology classes, at your seminary. Including a small stipend.
Summer One Day Youth Retreat
In order to bring the youth to the seminary to encourage a positive image of seminarian life, you could organize a Franciscan University of Steubenville style one day Catholic retreat filled with music, Catholic speakers, food, Mass, confessions, and Adoration
Franciscan University has had tremendous success with their summer conferences, so instead of reinventing the wheel you could model the conferences after their summer conference.
Fall and Spring Retreats
To follow up the summer retreats you could offer similar experiences at your seminary to compliment the summer retreat and offer more opportunities to catechize the youth.
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