Vocations to religious life have tripled within just eight years

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Missionaries of Charity at Westminster Cathedral (Photo: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

By Mark Greaves on Friday, 11 October 2013

Vocations to religious life in England and Wales have tripled in just eight years, revised figures show.

Last year 64 people joined a religious congregation, compared to just 19 in 2004. The number is at its highest level since 1995.

The figures, from the National Office for Vocation, were revised this month to include data from enclosed female orders. They show a big jump among entrants to orders of priests, from 19 in 2011 to 30 last year.

Sister Cathy Jones, religious life promoter at the National Office for Vocation, said the surge had been evident “across the whole range” of religious congregations, from Dominicans to Franciscans to Salvatorians.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/10/11/vocations-to-religious-life-have-tripled-within-just-eight-years/

There's a link to a pdf showing the figures in England and Wales for the last thirty years.

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1. Excellent. New blood is always good for revival.

BTW, Catholic Workers in L.A. wrote me a nice note and sent it snail mail w. a list of sister houses, but they don't think any of them handle potential long term care. I'm thinking I'll check out Sisters of Charity next. Don't worry, I'll find somebody to stand by. As you said, likely I've got a long time to go yet.

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2. Good luck to ye, Irish.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. - Galatians 6 : 9