National Vocation Awareness Week Begins Nov. 2

As the Church begins National Vocation Awareness Week, the faithful reflect on God’s call to love and service. Each person plays a vital role in helping others hear and answer that call.

In the past eight years, the St. Anthony and St. Mary parish community has been richly blessed to accompany three men to the permanent diaconate and celebrated the ordination of four seminarians to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ. The community continues to support those discerning a vocation, walking with current seminarians Spencer Wagner and Christopher Appel, and Andrew Wiesner, who is in diaconate formation.

Parishioners also remember in prayer Charles Pomroy, a St. Mary alumnus who will be instituted as an acolyte with Spencer on Nov. 15, and Jacob Bruns, another alumnus, who prepares for diaconate ordination this spring, God willing.

To begin this special week, St. Mary Parish will host a Holy Hour for Vocations on Sunday, Nov. 2, at 4 pm, followed by Vespers and Benediction, led by Fr. Michael Malucha, Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Through prayer, encouragement, and witness, the St. Anthony and St. Mary community continues to nurture a culture where God’s call can be heard, embraced, and joyfully lived.