This Lent, we offer a deeper dive into Viatorian spirituality to aid your prayer in this holy season. In Part 3 of this 3-part series, we explore the spirituality of our prayer. We reflect on the ways we pray as individual Viatorians and in Viatorian community gatherings, how we use prayer to review our ministry, and the approaches and prayer styles that work best for us. Toward the end, we offer space for reflection with these specific reflection questions:

What distinguishes my prayer? How do I pray individually? How do I pray with others?

What helps me reflect on my ministries and daily life?

What questions, approaches, or styles most strengthen my prayer and help me live and serve faithfully?

(This episode debuted on April 7, 2025.)

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SPECIAL SERIES: VIATORIAN SPIRITUALITY

This Lent, we offer a deeper dive into Viatorian spirituality to aid your prayer in this holy season. In Part 2 of this 3-part series, we explore the spirituality of our ministry. We examine our commitments to teaching the faith, serving the holy altar, and accompanying and serving people society tries to account of little importance. Toward the end, we offer space for reflection with these specific reflection questions:

What does it mean for you to teach or model the faith?

What does it mean for you to serve the holy altar?

What does it mean for you to accompany and serve people who society tries to say are unimportant?

Do you already minister and serve with a Viatorian spirituality? What is strongest in your heart of service?

(This episode debuted on March 24, 2025.)

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SPECIAL SERIES: VIATORIAN SPIRITUALITY

This Lent, we offer a deeper dive into Viatorian spirituality to aid your prayer in this holy season. In Part 1 of this 3-part series, we explore the spirituality of our founder, the Venerable Louis Querbes. We take a look at this motto, the virtues he articulated for great catechists, and his trust in God. Toward the end, we offer space for reflection with these specific reflection questions:

What does it mean for you and to you to make Jesus adored and loved?

What makes your life of faith lively? How can you turn to Scripture, spiritual reading, faith-sharing, faith-filled friends, companions, and mentors, and other meaningful sources to enlighten your faith?

What does zeal look and feel like for you? How can you practice it in your life of faith?

How do you struggle to trust in Providence? How are you able to trust in God?

(This episode debuted on March 10, 2025.)

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In this episode, we explore the idea of commitment. Why do we decide to commit to things? Why do we hesitate to commit? Why do we fear commitment? But perhaps most importantly, what does commitment enable? What we do we gain within the commitments we make? Members of the Viatorian Vocation Ministry Team gathered to share their experiences of commitment, reaching back to their time before religious life to share their perspectives as single men and then moving forward in their stories through formation and professing vows and into their lives as perpetually professed Viatorians. (This episode debuted on December 16, 2024.)

Celebrating our 100th episode! With our 7-episode special series on Catholic Social Teaching and our 13-episode special series on ministerial development, this 80th regular episode of Viatorian Voices puts up at 100 episodes total. Thank you to all of you who listen and reflect with us on the way. Here's to many more!

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In this episode, we are observing National Vocations Awareness Week, a time for promoting vocations to religious life and priesthood through prayer, invitation, and education. Over the past few months, our Viatorian Vocation Ministry has undertaken a wide-reaching research project to better understand the landscape of vocation ministry today, report significant findings to Viatorians, and identify key strategies and questions to direct our ministry most effectively going forward. We drew upon interviews with peers and colleagues, fresh data on religious life, articles from Catholic and secular news sources, and media online, including first-person reflections and videos and other articles from peer congregations. We're now excited to share some findings and inform our ongoing ministry. (This episode debuted on November 4, 2024, during NVAW 2024.)

• Executive Summary of our report
• Annotated Bibliography of report sources
• Our full report: Vocation Ministry Today

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Do you know the etymology of the word and name "Viator"? Do you know the longer story of this lector and catechist from 4th century Lyon, France? Do you know about why Venerable Louis Querbes turned to St. Viator to name the society he envisioned? Celebrate the feast day of St. Viator, October 21, with Viatorian Voices about our patron saint! (This episode debuted on October 21, 2024.)

Venerable Louis Querbes, inspire us! Saint Viator, pray for us! Adored and loved be Jesus!

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