What we Do
Annual Programs and Events to encourage vocations and to honor our bishop, priests, seminarians and religious
Annual Programs and Events to encourage vocations and to honor our bishop, priests, seminarians and religious
- Sponsor “Making it Personal with Bishop Joensen” radio show on Iowa Catholic Radio
- Recognize Catholic Schools Week - last week of January
- Fund monetary gifts to our newly ordained Priests and Deacons - June and July
- Sister Appreciation Gift Baskets for ~35 sisters in the DM Diocese - March
- Host New Member Induction Mass, Mass to Pray for deceased Serrans by Name and Milestone Membership dinner
- Host Seminarian Luncheon - August
- Host Priest Appreciation Picnic- September
- Host Deacon Appreciation Luncheon - November (Deacon Sunday - 2nd Sunday in October)
- Host Bishop’s Burse dinner – November
- Host New Member Orientation (Review of 'What do Serrans do?')
- Meet monthly for “First Friday Rosary and Mass” with Chaplain, Fr. Larry followed by coffee/donut social hour
- Host quarterly Holy Happy Hour (member program) with Mass, social time and speaker
- Support 31 Club (Daily Rosary for Vocations)
- Support two “Seven Serrans” teams to say daily prayers for Vocation Directors Fr. Ross Parker (Diocese of DM) and also for Fr. Jared Holzhuter (Diocese of Madison, no Serra Club)
- Fund birthday gifts to our Seminarians
- Established parish ambassadors to promote the Saint Serra Club to all metro parishes
- Invite members to pray a monthly Holy Hour at the Cathedral with the Bishop
- Provide bookmarks for Dowling Catholic HS retreat weekend and “freshman 101” orientation class
- Establishing a (Spiritually) Adopt a Seminarian – August (New Seminarians until ordained Priesthood)
- Establishing an Altar Server Recognition program – TBD (Select parishes in conjunction with parish ministry)
- Introducing a Hispanic Outreach program
- Establishing a Homebound Ministry – Deliver Priest Calendars, Seminarian Prayer Cards (Bishop Drumm)
- Establishing a Traveling Crucifix program
St. Serra Mission
Members of Serra are lay Catholic men and women of all ages and backgrounds who ensure the future of our Church by creating a “culture of vocations.”
Our mission is three-fold:
Members of Serra are lay Catholic men and women of all ages and backgrounds who ensure the future of our Church by creating a “culture of vocations.”
Our mission is three-fold:
- Promote and support vocations to the ministerial priesthood of the Catholic Church as a particular vocation of service and support priests in their sacred ministry;
- Encourage and promote vocations to the consecrated life in the Catholic Church;
- Assist members to recognize and respond, each in his own life, to God’s call to holiness in Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.
Pray for our Priests (download/print the daily Prayer Calendar below. Updated each September)
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