Several times each year, the Province holds a special event called Operation FIAT. On the evening of November 19, 2024, the Chaminade High School Community hosted one of these occasions. This program brings together members of the Province and those students from both Chaminade and Kellenberg Memorial High School who are interested in discerning a religious vocation. Many of these students are active members of either school’s Faustino Club, a school club orientated towards discussing vocational discernment as well as responding to the Lord’s call to “holiness.” Some 45 students participated in this latest program, along with more than twenty members of the Province communities. The evening began with Eucharistic Exposition and Adoration, followed by Evening Prayer.
Then, Bro, Benjamin Knapp, SM, of the Chaminade Community shared his vocation story in an engaging address to all. Finally, over dinner in Chaminade’s STARC building, the interaction continued. With the students dispersed over several different tables, together with the religious of the Province, there was ample opportunity for the religious to share their own vocation stories, as well as for the students to share their questions, and curiosities, and simply get to know the members of Province a little more personally.
The members of the Province pray every day for those discerning a religious vocation. We invite all to do the same. “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore plead with the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” (Lk 10:2)
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