The Knights of Columbus and the National Council of Catholic Women are committed to the National Strategy for Vocations and stand ready to help vocation directors in any way they can. The St. Charles Society in this archdiocese is a group of more than 700 individuals and couples who are praying daily for vocations. They provide a powerful prayer base for vocations to priesthood and religious life. Focusing Vocation Ministry A vocation director needs direction and support from his bishop to help him focus his ministry in the diocese or he will tend to scatter his efforts and end up with unsatisfactory results. The primary task of a diocesan vocation director is to recruit vocations for the diocesan priesthood.
Religious communities have to provide vocation personnel for their own institutes.
The diocesan vocation director certainly needs to collaborate with religious vocation personnel within his diocese. He needs to strategize with them in funding creative ways to promote vocations to priesthood and religious life. But he is not the vocation director for these communities, and his collaboration with other vocation personnel must not distract him from his primary focus which must be future priests for his diocese. This is the reason that a diocesan priest is the most suitable vocation director for a diocese. He needs to be healthy, balanced, disciplined and a man of the church.