Saturday, March 22, 2008

HERE I AM LORD on EWTN

HERE I AM LORD was featured on EWTN's LIFE ON THE ROCK on Thursday March 13, 2008

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

'Everything" Another View

This is another view of the 'EVERYTHING' skit performed on Saturday February 23rd at the National HERE I AM LORD Conference.

Friday, February 29, 2008

JASON EVERT - WHY CHASTITY?

JASON EVERT - GETTING OVER THE PAST

JASON EVERT - PORN...WHAT'S THE HARM

Monday, February 25, 2008

LIFEHOUSE "EVERYTHING" SKIT

This is the skit presented by St. Patrick Peer Ministry Team at the recent HERE I AM LORD National Vocations Conference on Saturday afternoon, February 23, 2008

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2008 HIAL Speaker Promo Video

This is the Video Promo for the speakers at the HERE I AM LORD Conference which will take place February 21-24, 2008 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in St. Charles, Illinois.

HIAL 2008 PROMO TONY MELENDEZ

This is our video promo for Tony Melendez who will be performing Saturday evening February 23, 2008 as part of the HERE I AM LORD Vocations Conference which takes place at St. Patrick Catholic Church in St. Charles, Illinois.

HIAL 2008 NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROMO VIDEO

This is a short promo video for the HERE I AM LORD National Vocations Conference which will take place February 21-24, 2008 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in St. Charles, Il.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

NEW PROMO VIDEO

Monday, August 20, 2007

NEW WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING

After some long hours of hard work by Kevin Banet from the IRL, the new website is up and looks great. We will not be doing further posting to the Catholic Web address. Instead, go to www.hereiamlord.net.

If you are a Religious Community or Vocations Director and would like to place an ad in the right column, please contact Kevin Banet at his company TreeFrogClick.

You can now view information for both the National Conference and upcoming Regional Conferences. Further information on the Regional Conferences will be posted after September 10, 2007.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

GRADE SCHOOL WORKSHOPS

AS OF MAY 23rd, OVER 900 OF THE AVAILABEL 1,200 GRADE SCHOOL WORKSHOP SPOTS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2008 ARE FILLED.

THE ST. PATRICK - CRANE ROAD WORKSHOP IS NOW CLOSED.

LIMITED SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE AT HOLY ANGELS AND ST. THOMAS MORE.

Friday, May 04, 2007

LOOK WHO'S COMING

The following communities are registered to attend the National Conference. Check out their websites. Communities will be added as we receive their registration.

Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration

Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco

Mariannhill Misionaries

Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Franciscan Brothers of Peace

Marmion Abbey Benedictines

Glenmary Home Missioners

Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother

Sisters of the Living Word

Sisters of Life

Franciscans - Order of Friars Minor

Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis

Passionist Community

Augustinian Friars - Midwest Province

School Sisters of St. Francis - Panhandle, Texas

Comboni Missionaries

Felician Sisters

Sisters of St. Jospeh The Worker

Daughters of St. Mary of Providence

Sisters of the Divine Savior

Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, in Portsmouth, Ohio

School Sisters of Notre Dame - Divine Savior Convent

Diocese of Rockford Vocations Office

Archdiocese of Chicago Vocations Office

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

SPECIAL GUEST - TONY MELENDEZ


We are pleased to announce that Tony Meledez, Internationally known speaker and musician will be our Special Guest for next year's National Conference. Check the website as details about our new Thursday Night evenings in the parish and high school workshops are announced.

Monday, March 12, 2007

GRADE SCHOOL WORKSHOPS ARE BEING EXPANDED FOR 2008



Our grade school workshops were so popular that we have expanded them for 2008. The workshops will take place on Friday February 22, 2008 and will be held at three locations. Download Flyer

Friday, March 09, 2007

HIAL CHICAGO - 2008

The Chicago area conference on Feb 21 - 24 2008 will feature expanded grade school and high school workshops. Currently we have 3 grade school locations that can handle 1,200 middle school age teens. St. Edward Central Catholic High School in Elgin will host one of our two planned high school workshop sites. Details on the second high school should be in place within the next couple of weeks.

Check the websitre often to keep up to date with the all of next years plans.

PASSIONIST NUNS - PRAYER WARRIORS











PASSIONIST NUNS of Whitesville, Kentucky

“…MY HEART WILL BELONG ONLY TO GOD: HE IS MY LOVE!” - St. Paul of the Cross

Deep in the wooded serenity surrounding Whitesville, Kentucky, we continue Passionist contemplative life begun in Italy by the greatest mystic of the late 18th century, St. Paul of the Cross.
Our life as Passionist contemplative nuns flows from the personal love of Christ for us manifested in His passion, death and resurrection. We seek to comfort Him in His Sacred Passion by loving our Sisters in community life and through Divine Worship.This is expressed most powerfully in our participation in the Holy Mass which is the highpoint of our monastic day. Through this union with our Sacramental Spouse in the Eucharist we are empowered to persevere in this loving union with Christ Crucified. We have daily exposition of Blessed Sacrament, two hours of contemplative prayer and we pray the entire Liturgy of the Hours. In all our life we seek to imitate Our Lady of Sorrows—the Handmaid of Redemption.
We make a special vow to promote devotion to and a grateful remembrance of the Passion of Christ. This vow expresses the specific purpose of our Institute and gives inspiration and unity to our lives. We also make the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and enclosure. We live our vows in the atmosphere of Christ’s sacrificial love and offer ourselves with Him to the Father for the salvation of our brothers and sisters.
Our formation program, steeped in sacred Scripture and the mystics, nourishes heart and mind and develops the whole person. We greatly enjoy the family spirit of our community, therefore we have daily recreation with one another which may include hiking, playing games, visiting our elderly sisters or just being together. Our work is simple and includes kitchen work, laundry, cleaning, infirmary, computer work, sewing, printing work, answering letters, phones and doors and caring for our 170 acres of woods, lake and open field. We host a small retreat house, an oasis of prayer for people hungering for deeper union with God.
We occasionally host vocation discernment retreats in response to the request of Pope John Paul the Great that all religious communities make known the great joy and value of a life consecrated to God. This gives young women an opportunity to learn more about our Passionist charism, living a life of worship and intercession and the liberation that comes from a radical embrace of the Gospel.
We also have opportunities for live-ins inside the monastery to help women in their discernment about our life. We arrange these after getting to know you better and you us through correspondence, phone calls and letters of recommendation.
In accord with St. Paul of the Cross’ original inspiration, we wear the full religious habit. We are faithful to the Magisterium and we love being brides of Christ and daughters of the Holy Catholic Church!

Passionist Nuns
8564 Crisp Rd
Whitesville, KY 42378
vocations@passionistnuns.org
(270) 233-4571
www.passionistnuns.org

Thursday, February 01, 2007

NATIONAL VOCATIONS CONFERENCE.... FEB 22-25, 2007

Everything is set for the upcoming HERE I AM LORD Vocations Conference. We are excited to bring you some of the country's best Catholic speakers. Matthew Kelly, Fr. Stan Fortuna, Curtis Martin, Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Chris Padgett, Sarah Bauer and Popple. Bishop Thomas Paprocki will be our celebrant and homilist at the closing Mass on Saturday - Feb 24th.

Go to our website to register and get complete information

HERE I AM LORD Vocations Conference Web Site

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Conference Promo Video

This is a promo video from 2004

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 1


Part 1 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

In 2002, a young girl made an off-hand comment that many would have just filed away as youthful cynicism. The comment struck a chord with me because it spoke of the realities that so many of our young people face. The reality of divorce.

Her comment was 'when I graduate from high school, I am going to go to college, get a job, get married and divorced....'

It was the spring of 2002 and I had just booked Fr. Stan Fortuna to come in to present a concert in February of 2003. A series of conversations with people planted the seed to transform a simple concert into something more. The idea was to contact the many Youth Ministers I work with on other projects to see what we could offer their teens who were Peer Ministers. How could we feed them? They spend their year reaching out to others, how could we reach out to them? Mark Herwaldt, a veteran youth minister whose opinions I value, reminded me that Youth Ministry is all about vocations.

'How true', I thought. Somebody should be doing something about that! Somebody, but not me, should be doing something about that. Well the next thing I know, Mark and I were meeting with Fr. Aaron Brodeski, vocations director for the Rockford Diocese. Fr. Aaron liked the idea and suggested some communities to contact and asked to be kept 'in the loop' as things progressed.

A teens comment planted a seed... Mark's comment tilled the soil, Fr. Aaron provided a little fertilizer and then the rain poured forth from a conversation with Sr. Margaret Michael Gillis, FSP. I called her after speaking with Chris Padgett (more on Chris later). He suggested I contact her as I was looking for a Religious Sister to speak on vocations.

So there I was in the fall of 2002 talking to a 'nun' I never met, about vocations. Not just the priesthood and religious life but about vocations. What is a vocation? How does the Church identify vocations? How can we present this to teens, young adults and parents? Our phone conversation lasted 45 minutes and when I hung up, I knew that something special was about to take place...

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incidence's are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing...

Stay tuned for more...

Monday, December 11, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 2


Part 2 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

A simple concert is now on it's way to becoming a conference on vocations.

Finding priests to speak was easy. I simply had to call Marmion Abbey and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in nearby Aurora. I knew the two priests I wanted to have speak. Fr. Michael Burrows and I both attended high school at Marmion Military Academy. We were introduced years before at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor that we were both speaking at. Even though we graduated in the same year (1970) we did not know one another as I attended the Day campus and he attended the Resident campus. Fr. Joe Jablonski, was the Vocations promoter for the MSC's, I had heard him speak numerous times over the years and was confident they would both be able to hold the attention of the teens.

I grew up knowing a lot of priests and sisters. The grade school I attended (St. Pat's - amazing the parish I grew up in is where I ended up as the Youth Minister 35 years later) was staffed by the Adrian Dominicans. When they left in the early 70's, my association with religious sisters ended. Growing up, I knew a lot of priests and maintained contact with growing up. From the diocesan priests who were at St. Pat's and nearby parishes to the priests at Marmion, I never really lost contact with them.

So in 2002, when all of this was starting to come together, I had not had any real contact with Religious Sisters for over thirty-five years. That was about to change over the next six months and in a HUGE WAY in the years since…

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incidence's are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing...

Stay tuned for more

Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 3



Part 3 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

Chris Padgett (told you we would get back to him) joins the schedule

It's the fall of 2002 and we now have priests and sisters scheduled to speak on vocations.

What about Marriage?

I met Chris Padgett when I booked his band 'Scarecrow and Tinmen' to do a concert in 2000 shortly after I arrived at St. Pat's. I was introduced to him by Eric Groth who was in charge of the Rally's that Cultivation Ministries was doing at the time. So I asked Chris and Linda Padgett along with Eric and Becky Groth if they would speak about marriage as a vocation. They both agreed and helped set the tone for conferences to come with their talks and the prayer experience that has become part of the conference. Chris and Eric have since teamed up with OUTSIDE DA BOX, a new company seeking to spread The Word to teens thru the modern media.

Ok, so now we have the Priesthood and Religious Life covered, Marriage is being taken care of by two awesome couples who make God a part of their everyday lives. What's missing?

Single Life…Discipleship….Evangelization…

Well Fr. Stan can cover discipleship and evangelization…

But what to do about Single Life and pulling it all together?

The worst they can ever do is say no!

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incedences are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing...

Stay tuned for more

Saturday, December 09, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 4


My loves of my life - Diane and daughter Jenny

Part 4 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

While in high school I read a book in Religion class at Marmion that had a profound impact on my life. The book was 'Mr. Blue' by Myles Connelly. When I met my wife Diane in 1978, one of the first serious conversations we had was on Good Friday and centered around Mr. Blue. It turns out that we both read the book in high school and had not forgotten it. By this time the book was out of print but somehow we managed to track a copy down at a used book store in Chicago. It is now back in print and published by Loyola Press. Another God-incidence?

Fast forward to 1997...Diane and I are at Franciscan University for a Summer Youth Conference. Diane bought the book 'Pierced by a Sword' at the bookstore and we both devoured it within two days of returning home. 'Pierced' would play as prominent a role as Mr. Blue had earlier in our lives.

Fast forward to 2002…What if I asked Bud MacFarlane to speak at the conference? Well the worst he can do is say no. So I managed to get a hold of Bud and he agreed to come out and speak. Something he really doesn't do. Bud will admit that he is not the greatest speaker in the world but he was able to introduce a whole new group of people to his books. 'Pierced By A Sword', 'Conceived Without Sin' and 'House of Gold' became for the many young people I come in contact with, the modern equivalent of Mr. Blue. I buy them from St. Jude Media and hand them out to as many young people as I can to read. I also do the same with Mr. Blue now that it is back in print.

So here we are in November of 2002 and all of the speakers are in place…

Next…If you build it, will they come?

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incidences are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing...

Stay tuned for more

Thursday, December 07, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 5


Part 5 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

If you build it, will they come?

YES!!!

Armed with the list of communities that Fr. Aaron has given me, I sent off invitations to various priests, brothers, and sisters inviting them to be part of this new conference. I had no idea what kind of response there would be as this was something totally new. It only took a couple of weeks to find out that Fr. Aaron had done more than just give me a list of names. It turns out that he had given me a list of communities who were enthusiastic about their vocations.

Suddenly I was receiving phone calls. Priests, Brothers, and Sisters from across the country were wanting to find out more about the conference. Were we going to charge them to come? What was their booth space going to cost them? Where could they stay? Questions about who was speaking, what the format would be, how could they get here from the airport? As I spoke with more and more of them two things became clear.

They understood the critical need to address vocations, all vocations. There was excitement in their voices and in their hearts, they were truly happy in their vocation and wanted to share that with others.

Next…JOY!!!

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incidences are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing...

Stay tuned for more

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

The Back Story on the HERE I AM LORD Conference - Part 6


Part 6 in a series of reflections on the HERE I AM LORD Conferences

SURPRISED BY JOY


JOY is defined as the feeling of happiness or extreme cheerfulness.

C.S. Lewis wrote a book in 1955 titled, 'Surprised by Joy'. His aim was to identify and describe the events surrounding his accidental discovery of and consequent search for the phenomenon he labeled "Joy". He recounts his journey from atheism to theism to Christianity.

If asked to describe the HERE I AM LORD Conference in one word, JOY would best describe it. The JOY that married couples and singles have shared about their lives. The JOY that Priests, Brothers, and Sisters have shared with all they come in contact with. It is that JOY that will put an end to the 'vocations crisis' we are experiencing in the Church.

Married couples, singles, priests, and religious need to share that JOY will everyone they come in contact with. If everyone were to "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15) with that JOY, our seminaries and convents would be full, divorce rates would plummet and single people could be confident in their choice to service God in the secular world.

'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is FREEDOM'

The visible proof of that freedom is JOY.

As this back story continues you are going to see how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. The many God-incidences are amazing. Just proof that He works thru all of us who are willing... Stay tuned for more

Monday, July 17, 2006

God In The Streets of New York City

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus














Sr. Colleen Smith, principal of Our Lady of Pompei in New York City enjoys lunch with girls at HERE I AM LORD - DENVER.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE DIVINE HEART OF JESUS

IF YOU ARE IN THE GREAT LAKES AREA, YOU REALLY NEED TO CHECK THIS COMMUNITY OUT. THEY ARE SO FULL OF ENERGY, LIFE AND JOY. IF YOU ARE IN THE GRAND RAPIDS AREA, CHECK IN WITH SR. MARY JUDITH KOVACH. SHE IS ONE OF THE NICEST SISTERS I HAVE MET AND EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND SHE'S BUSY DOING SOMETHING TO BUILD UP THE KINGDOM OF GOD. TELL HER YOU SAW THEIR COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTED ON THE HERE I AM LORD WEB BLOG


The Beatification of Mother Maria Teresa of St. Joseph Foundress of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus, will be held in the Cathedral of Roermond, Netherlands on May 13, 2006.

This is also the Feastday of Our Lady of the most Blessed Sacrament

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Pictures from our featured cloistered communities









Saturday, April 22, 2006

Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration at Saint Joseph Adoration Monastery

Welcome ...

to the website of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration at Saint Joseph Adoration Monastery in Portsmouth, Ohio.

On November 2, 2002 Mother Dolores Marie & Sr. Imelda Marie left Our Lady of the Angels Monastery founded by Mother Angelica, in Hanceville Alabama to restart the Monastery here in Portsmouth, Ohio. After being here for 3 years we now have 2 novices and 1 postulant with many inquiries from young women. God is so good and we ask you for your prayers that many young women may enter our order so that this Monastery may be a power house of prayer. May Jesus truly reign in our Hearts! God bless you!

Our community was established in 1956 as a foundation from our Cleveland Monastery. The community is a pontifical, contemplative order of cloistered Nuns with the privilege of solemn vows, papal enclosure and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. We wear the traditional habit and have a special love for our Holy Father and the Church.






If you would like to help support the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration,

please send donations to us at:



Saint Joseph Adoration Monastery

2311 Stockham Lane

Portsmouth, OH 45662

or

Email us at:

nuns@stjosephmonastery.com

Dominican Nuns of Summt New Jersey

Is Christ Calling You?

Choosing your vocation in life is the most important thing you have to do. It is a decision which will have implications for your whole life, one upon which all your future happiness depends. It requires a great deal of discernment, weighing your gifts, abilities, desires and opportunities in prayerful consideration to know God's will for you. The one who takes time out to think and opens herself up to the action of the Holy Spirit can trust that she will know that joy and peace which only God can give.

From all eternity, God calls some women to be consecrated entirely to Him. The religious vocation is a reflection of the vocation of Mary, to whom God sent the Angel Gabriel seeking her consent to be the Mother of the Incarnate Word. A contemplative nun is called to live in very great intimacy with Jesus. She is called to be a spouse and mother: a spouse of Christ and mother of souls through her life of prayer and sacrifice.

God issues His invitation in many ways―a homily, the reading of a book, the example of a friend or family member, the advice of a spiritual director…perhaps even this very website will be the means of helping you correspond to the grace of a contemplative vocation…but always God leaves you perfectly free to accept or reject His beautiful invitation to a special way of life.

How do you know you have a Dominican contemplative vocation? First, there are usually several simple indications that you may be called to this life. Every call is different and unique. For some, the call is very clear at an early age; others come to it after much searching.

Signs of a Call to Dominican Contemplative Life

Single woman between the ages of 21-35

a practicing Roman Catholic

fidelity and love for the Church

good physical and mental health

a joyful, generous spirit

willingness to learn

ability to live in community and in solitude

zeal for the salvation of souls

an attraction to prayer and the things of God

a desire to give yourself entirely to Jesus Christ


If you have these qualifications , why wait? We invite you, as Our Lord did His first disciples, to "come and see," and contact:
Sr. Mary Catharine, O.P.

Novice Mistress

Dominican Nuns

Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary

543 Springfield Avenue

Summit, NJ 07901-4498

Phone: 908-273-1228



e-mail: vocations.summit@op.org
VOCATIONS
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

GLENMARY HOME MISSIONERS



Fr. Steve Pawelk is the
'Man in Black'
and the Vocations Director for Glenmary.



Sometimes we get so caught up with the 'new' communities and contemplative orders, communities such as GLENMARY who work with the rural poor are forgotten.

Glenmary was founded in 1939 by Father William Howard Bishop, a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. By most standards, Father Bishop was an ordinary man. For more than 20 years, he labored in a small Catholic parish in rural Maryland.

Yet this ordinary man was given an extraordinary gift: the ability to see. He saw the thousands of poor, neglected and forgotten people who inhabited rural America. He saw what the Church had failed to see—that there were vast areas in the United States that were starving for the Bread of Life.

Armed with this gift of sight, Father Bishop worked relentlessly. He built a school. He published and edited several newsletters in order to bring rural America's plight to the awareness of "city dwellers." He organized a cooperative. He was a founding member and later president of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. He started a 4-H Club for the children of his parish. His efforts to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to rural America ultimately culminated in 1939 when he founded the Glenmary Home Missioners.
What exactly was it that made this common man so exceptional? William Howard Bishop, first of all, possessed a hope: "that the backwoodsmen, the mountaineers, the farm tenants, sharecroppers and day workers might one day eat the Bread of Truth."

He also had a vision: "A flower is small, like the small, isolated groups that we minister to, like the little children. So small a flower is easily overlooked on the roadside. You hardly see it as you pass by. But pick it up and examine it; it becomes a thing of beauty; so, too, the country parish and the country child."

Finally, William Howard Bishop had a dream: "We have Christ with us every day. We have drunk of the Water of Life. Should we hesitate to show the world where He is to be found? Should we hesitate to pray that prayer which was so dear to Christ's heart, and pray it aloud so that all who have ears may hear, "That they all may be one, as Thou, Father are in me, and I in Thee; that they may be one in Us."

Find out more about GLENMARY HOME MISSIONERS

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Wichita


I received my copy of COLUMBIA Magazine yesterday and there on the back cover was Sister Maria Jacinta Weidie, IHM. She was one of our feautred speakers at the very first HERE I AM LORD Confernece - Chicago back in 2003. I tried to find a link on the Knights of Columbus website because the article and picture were so good. No luck. So I am typing it out for all to read. If you get a chance to see the April 2006 edition of Columbia check out the back cover. This is also a good way to give a plug for the Knights of Columbus who have been so supportive of the HERE I AM LORD Conferneces.

The picture shown is of Sister Maria Jacinta from a Power Point presentation she gave me in 2003.

'Raised in Arkansas City, Kansas, I had always assumed I would get married and have lots of children. Growing up, my dad was a member of the Knights of Columbus for as long as I could remember. He and my mom taught us to have devotion to and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament and Our Lady.

Today my brothers are Knights, raising their families with the same values. It is these devotions that have helped me follow my vocation - which began to take hold when I was in college.

I had been looking up a local convent where I could make a retreat, and I found the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Wichita. Upon leaving the retreat, I promised myself never to return... I enjoyed it too much!

I was afraid of how my life might change, Still, I couldn't resist returning a month later.

That's when I realized Jesus was calling me to fullfill my desires for happiness and holiness - for an intimate life with Him, in this congregation devoted to the Eucharist and to Mary. I can remember sitting in the Chapel, praying, "Jesus, I think you are calling me to this beautiful way of life. How can I say no?" Not long after, I would pronounce my perpetual vows.

I am so grateful for my vocation. Each year gets better. I can't imagine being more fullfilled.'

Thursday, April 06, 2006

HIAL - DENVER PICTURES



One of the Displays



Queen of Peace Church



Sr. Mary Michael, Women of Miles Jesu, Mike Zak



Fr. Jim Crissman - Denver Vocations Office



Our AWESOME Praise and Worship Teens

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

MORE PICTURES FROM DENVER



Pictures of teens who attended



Chris Padgett Alias "Fish Face"



More Crowd Photo's



Dinner with Religious



OUR HEROS 'The Volunteers' in their Lime Green Shirts

DOMINICAN FRIARS

Click on the above featured community to find out more...

Twice each week we will spotlight a religious community. If you would like to suggest a community, please send us their information. We will look into adding them to our list of over 75 communities who have attended the various HERE I AM LORD Conferences since 2003

For information on hosting a HERE I AM LORD Conference in your area please contact Mike Zak - National Conference Coordinator and HIAL founder.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

"Panhandle Franciscans"



Sr. Mary Ana and Sr. Mary Michael







Click on the above featured community to find out more...

At least once each week we will spotlight a religious community. If you would like to suggest a community, please send us their information. We will look into adding them to our list of over 75 communities who have attended the various HERE I AM LORD Conferences since 2003

For information on hosting a HERE I AM LORD Conference in your area please contact Mike Zak - National Conference Coordinator and HIAL founder.

Monday, April 03, 2006

Pictures from Denver



Sister Mary Michael, O.P. and Chris Padgett with the Dominican Rosary



Cloistered Benedictines sent this extern sister to attend the conference



Sean dalton and Carmelite Sisters from Alahambra, California



Dominican Novices



Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George

Sunday, April 02, 2006

THANK YOU DENVER

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO WERE INVOLVED IN HERE I AM LORD - DENVER. A SPECIAL THANKS TO SR. MARY MICHAEL FOX, O.P. FOR PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO FR. MARTY AT QUEEN OF PEACE FOR HIS GENOROSITY OF ALLOWING THE CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT HIS PARISH. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK SO WE CAN MAKE NEXT YEAR EVEN BETTER

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