Children react as Totus Tuus team members sing songs with children attending the program at St. Hubert Church in Hoffman Estates on July 2, 2021. The parish hosted the weeklong Catholic camp for children and youth. During the week, children attend daily Mass, learn the parts and liturgical songs of Mass, and participate in games, skits, songs, recess and prayer. Parishes throughout the archdiocese offer Totus Tuus camps sponsored by the Office for Vocations.
Vocations event asks, ‘Who Will Fill These Shoes?’ When Father Vic Ivers, already long retired, celebrated his last Mass at St. Joseph Parish in Libertyville in 2014, he stopped at the end of Mass, took off his shoes, laid them in front of the altar and said, “So now who will fill these shoes?”
Serra Club of Chicago helps promote vocations to priesthood Serra International, an organization of laypeople whose purpose is to promote priestly vocations, now has a local affiliate in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Mother of the Americas youth group promotes vocations Mother of the Americas Parish in Little Village has a unique youth group dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood.