Are you called to a religious life? Or perhaps you want to enrich your life by belonging to a lay tertiary order? Here are a few resources to help you discern your religious vocation:

General Information & Orders

• VocationInfo.com
• NY Priest: “The world needs heroes.”
• Institute on Religious Life
• Listing of Catholic religious orders and institutes
• Roman Catholic Vocations — Inspirational blog for those discerning a vocation to the religious life.

Convent Communities for Women

• Dominican Sisters of Mary
• Carmelite Order

Monastic Communities for Men

• Benedictine Monks of the Congregation of Solesmes (Oklahoma)
• Cistercian-Trappist Abbey of New Clairvaux (California):
  

  Abbey of New Clairvaux
  Attn: Fr. Paul Mark
  P.O. Box 80
  Vina, CA 96092-0080
  monks@newclairvaux.org
  www.newclairvaux.org

• Carmelite Order

Seminaries for Men

• Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary (Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter)