Formation & Vocation
Websites with specific details
You will find here official information relevant not only to those who are discerning a vocation in the Congregation of Holy Cross, but also to those within our community who are assisting persons in the discernment and formation process.
Holy Cross Priests
Holy Cross Brothers
Congrégation de Sainte-Croix
Vocation Match Vision – Catholic Religious Vocation Network
Prayers for Vocations to the Congregation of Holy Cross
SUNDAY (THE EUCHARIST)
Leader: Lord God, you instilled in the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau a fervent devotion to the presence of your Son in the Eucharist.
All: Fill our hearts with gratitude for the excesses of God’s tenderness made present to us in the Eucharistic mystery.
Leader: Draw the hearts of your people into loving communion with the heart of your Son, and call young people to offer their lives in the service of others as Holy Cross religious. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
MONDAY (ZEAL)
Leader: Lord God, you filled the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau with zeal for the proclamation of your kingdom.
All: Fortify our hearts with the gift of zeal, the burning desire to make God known, loved and served.
Leader: Enkindle in the hearts of all believers zeal for your kingdom, and inspire young people to become disciples eager to serve as educators in the faith in the family of Holy Cross. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
TUESDAY (DIVINE PROVIDENCE)
Leader: Lord God, you enlivened the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau with a profound trust in your Divine Providence.
All: Fill our hearts with a deep conviction of your loving care, and help us to know that Holy Cross is not a human work, but God’s very own.
Leader: Show forth your providential love in the lives of all, and draw into your service new members of the family of Holy Cross. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
WEDNESDAY (UNITY)
Leader: Lord God, you filled the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau with a passion for the unity of Holy Cross modeled on the mystery of the Holy Family.
*All: *Pour forth in our hearts a yearning for such conformity of sentiments, interests and wills as to make all of us one…as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one.
Leader: Grace your faithful people with a share in your own divine life, and call young people to join their lives to ours in the family of Holy Cross. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
THURSDAY (CONFORMITY TO CHRIST)
Leader: Lord God, you infused the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau with a yearning to imitate the conduct of Jesus Christ.
All: Penetrate our hearts with a longing to so well assimilate the thoughts, judgments, desires, words and actions of Jesus Christ that we can say with the great Apostle: “I no longer live; it is Christ who lives in me.”
Leader: Pour forth your Spirit into your community so that our lives will conform more deeply to the Sacred Heart of your Son, and bring to Holy Cross those who long to imitate his love. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
FRIDAY (THE CROSS)
Leader: Lord God, you formed in the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau the capacity to embrace the cross, a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.
All: Fill our hearts that we may see others as relics of the sacred wood of the true cross which we must love and venerate.
Leader: Lord, may we be grateful for the gift of redemption revealed in the cross. Summon to life in Holy Cross young people who desire to proclaim with us: Hail O Cross, our only hope. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
SATURDAY (OUR LADY OF SORROWS)
Leader: Lord God, you graced the heart of Blessed Basil Moreau with the desire to entrust his religious family to Our Lady of Holy Cross, the Mother of Sorrows.
All: Open our hearts to the tender love that comes to us through Mother of Jesus, who stood at the foot of the cross when Jesus offered himself to the Father for our salvation.
Leader: Fill the hearts of your people with the compassion of your sorrowful Mother, and through her intercession draw to life in Holy Cross young people who desire to care for others. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
*Words italicized are excerpts from the writings of Blessed Basil Moreau.
