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Vocation Office Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars

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Please return this completed form to the Vocation Office email address with a current photo

Name: Date of Birth: Address: Telephone Number and best time to call: Email Address:

Parish: Involvement in Parish: Are you a convert to Catholicism? If so, when?

Education: List all academic institutes attended

NAME OF SCHOOL CITY/STATE DATES ATTENDED DIPLOMA/DEGREE/ REASONS FOR CERTIFICATE LEAVING ACHIEVED (IF APPLICABLE)

Vocation Office: Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars 1525 Carmel Road - Hubertus, WI, 53033-9770 – 262-628-1838 –[email protected] ocdfriarsvocation.org Employment Record: Please list all types of employment beginning with present

COMPANY POSITION DATES OF REASONS FOR LEAVING EMPLOYMENT

IF YOU ARE NOT FILLING THIS FORM OUT ELECTRONICALLY PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON SEPARATE PIECES OF PAPER.

Do you have any personal or educational debt? If so please explain:

Are you a citizen of the United States? If not, explain your current status.

Have you ever been a member of the Armed Services? If so which branch? Date and type of discharge:

Have you ever been arrested? If so what type of criminal charges? Were you ever convicted or sentenced for any crime? If so please explain:

What is the general state of your health? Do you have any special health conditions? Do you take any prescription drugs? If so please list, state how long you have been using them, what condition they treat and if they have been successful.

Are you currently dating? If not when did you last date or last relationship end? Have you ever been married? If so list date(s) of marriage(s): How did the marriage end? Do you have any dependents (children, parents, etc.)? If so explain:

Vocation Office: Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars 1525 Carmel Road - Hubertus, WI, 53033-9770 – 262-628-1838 –[email protected] ocdfriarsvocation.org What other religious communities are you interested in or discerning with? What attracts you to them?

Have you ever attended a diocesan or religious seminary before? If so, where and what years? Were you asked to leave the seminary? If so why? If you left voluntarily, what were your reasons for leaving the seminary?

Have you ever entered a religious institute or society of apostolic life before? If so please give name or the institute/society and the dates you were with them: Did you leave as a postulant, novice, temporarily or perpetually professed? Were you dismissed or did you voluntarily leave the institute? What were the reasons for leaving?

How did you learn about this Vocation Office? (i.e. website, facebook, Publications, etc.) How long have you been interested in the Discalced Carmelite Friars? How did you learn about the Order? (Web, person, Carmelite Saints, etc.) Do you know any of the members of this province? Are you interested in the priesthood, the brotherhood or are you as yet undecided?

Have you sought advice concerning your vocation? If so with whom and what advice did you receive? Do you have a time frame in which you’d hope to join the order? (as soon as possible, a particular time, or after something is completed, etc. Please state briefly why you are interested in a vocation as a Discalced Carmelite Friar.

Are you interested in coming to visit one of our monasteries? If so what is your availability?

Is there anything else you think would be helpful for us to know about your journey, interests, concerns at this time?

Do you have any specific questions you would like answered at this time?

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Please return this completed form to the Vocation Office email address with a current photo.

Vocation Office: Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars 1525 Carmel Road - Hubertus, WI, 53033-9770 – 262-628-1838 –[email protected] ocdfriarsvocation.org