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The Winter edition of HORIZON, due out in February, will carry the text of several convocation speakers. In 2025, two presentations will also be available on video. Follow this newsletter or the NRVC news column for updates.

Evaluation

Evaluations are still being accepted. Turn in yours today to help the NRVC optimize the convocation experience.

View & download convocation photos

See convocation photos on our NRVC Flickr page.

NRVC apparel

Shirts, sweaters, and more with the NRVC logo and convocation logo are available for order here. The NRVC does not profit from these sales, but it appreciates that this apparel helps promote a vocational message.

Avoid lapses in your NRVC benefits by renewing your membership today. Your prompt renewal also saves the NRVC time and money. Go to nrvc.net/signup. Please direct any questions to Sister Dina Bato, S.P., NRVC's director of membership, at dinasp@nrvc.net or 317-519-3312. 

Ideal for World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2, this 20-page booklet is designed for inquirers, their parents, or anyone wanting to know more about words commonly used in vocations to religious life—words that frequently are unfamiliar to those outside the life. Stock up now so you can also use these at school talks, presentations to the public, with your discerners, etc. Member price: $3. Non-members: $5.

How will you and your community be celebrating Jubilee Year 2025? Pope Francis has declared 2025 a Jubilee Year with the theme "Pilgrims of Hope." Check out the NRVC site,  JubileeYear2025.org to learn more. 

Note that The Jubilee Year of Consecrated Life is a section of the site dedicated to a Jubilee that religious communities worldwide are commemorating during the 2025 Jubilee Year. On October 8-9, 2025 religious communities will celebrate a type of "jubilee within a jubilee," noting ways that religious are "Pilgrims of hope, on the way of peace."

World Day for Consecrated Life is taking place February 2 (Feast of the Presentation). It will be celebrated in parishes February 1 and 2. The NRVC encourages members and friends to take advantage of this global recognition of consecrated life through events, social media posts, prayer services, and more.  Find resources for doing so at nrvc.net.   

NRVC members are encouraged to prayerfully consider nominating themselves or another for service on the board. Nominees will be voted on at the spring 2025 board meeting and begin serving at the fall 2025 meeting. Board members are expected to attend two in-person, three-day meetings a year, attend convocation, and be willing to serve on a committee or task force. Learn more by speaking with a current board member.  Submit a nomination form or a self-nomination form.

The NRVC staff wishes members, friends, and collaborators a joyful Christmas and New Year. Please keep in mind that the NRVC offices will be closed from December 24 through January 1, reopening on January 2.

Delaware Valley Member Area, December 10, via Zoom

Southwest Member Area, January 15, 2025, via Zoom

Do you know what's happening in your Member Area? Log in to nrvc.net and learn what is happening near you to collaborate and give and receive support in your ministry. For more information, contact your Member Area coordinator.

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