Vocation to Holiness Process

Initiated by Bishop Corrada on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, 2004

• Click here to see the document

Interested in a Vocation to the Permanent Diaconate, Consecrated Life, or the Priesthood ? Contact the following Vocations Department for more information:

Vocations Co-Director:              Father Jesudoss Thomas, S.T.L.

                                                    903-331-9813

Vocations Co-Director:              Father Jesús R. Arroyave

                                                    903-534-1077 ext. 171

Consecrated Life:                      Sr. Angelica Arozco, EFMS

Vocation Secretary:                  Sr. Concepcion Ponce, RM    Vocations Office

Information You Can Read

• Comments by Pope on Priestly Celibacy
• Click Here To View USCCB Vocations Site
• Click Here To Read A Vocations Article

Holy Orders

Seminarians Info & Autobiographies 2010 List Coming Soon

Applications for Priesthood

• Stages of Application Process and Discernment
• Application Portfolio Checklist
• Application Form

Permanent Diaconate

Deacon formation in both English and Spanish is underway.

If you are interested in the next group, please contact the Vocations Office.

Consecrated Life

Listing of all communitites of Consecrated Life serving in the Diocese of Tyler click here

 A discernment process – A CALL FROM THE BISHOP
      - (for girls only – 16 or older) –click here for *Voc. Discernment Program 2010-2011

 Un proceso de discernimiento -
UN LLAMADO DEL OBISPO
- Para mujeres solamente – 16 años o mayores -Voc. Discernment Program 2010-2011

Communities of women serving in Diocese of Tyler, with web sites:

• Instituto Santa Mariana de Jesús (Marianitas)
• Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth

• Eucharistic Franciscan Missionary Sisters (Los Angeles (and Tyler!) Bilingual
• Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family

• Cloistered Dominican Sisters

• Dominican Sisters of Houston – Palestine

• Congregation of Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word (Houston)
  
  

Some other communities of vibrant Consecrated Life:

• Monastery of the Infant Jesus (Lufkin Dominicans)
• Dominican Sisters of St. Ceceila (Nashville)
• Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga (Virginia Dale, CO)

New Communities, being established in the Diocese of Tyler:

Daughters of Divine Hope:

 Bishop Corrada's announcement   

website

Guadalupanas of St. Anne Missionaries 

decree Mt. Pleasant, TX 

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