COMMUNITY LIFE COMMISSION

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

SERRA CLUB

Mission The Serra Mission is to foster and  promote vocations to the ministerial priesthood and religious life while  furthering one’s own Catholicism to fulfill their vocation to service.

About Our Organization:

The Serra movement was started with four men interested in their own spiritual growth, and soon others joined and the formation of the club in Seattle, Washington on February 27, 1935, was born.

They chose Padre Junipero Serra the noted Spanish missionary as their patron.  This 18th century Franciscan priest was an explorer and colonizer of California where he was the     founder of the “Missions of California.”  He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in September 1988.  In 1993, pope John Paul II referred to Serra International as his “Vocation Arm of the Church.”

Serra is a voluntary organization of Catholic men and women of various ages, races, and backgrounds.  They support and aid the Bishop and Vocation Office in many of the projects and promotions that involve Seminarians, Deacons, Religious and Priests.

Serra International has 22,000 members in 750 clubs in 35 countries.  The United States/Canada Council administers Serra in the country.

Membership Information:

There are eight Serra Clubs in Colorado, four in Metro Denver, one each in Boulder, Greeley, Pueblo, and Aurora, with over three hundred and fifty active Serrans. 

The Serra Club of Aurora invites members of the following parishes to join them in the mission of promoting vocations:

• Church of the Ascension

• St. Therese

• St. Pius the Tenth

• Queen of Peace

• St. Michael the Archangel

• Our Lady of Loreto

• St. Lawrence Korean

Meetings are on the first Thursdays of the month at 7:00 p.m. in St. Lawrence Room at Queen of Peace Parish.

Activities:

Service:

• Prayer and work for Vocations

• Ordination Receptions

• Seminarian Support

• Vocation Mass

• Catholic Vocations Retreat for those 18 to 40

• Vocation Walk

• Vocation Panels for the youth

Spritual Growth:

• Bi-monthly Meetings/Speakers

• Day of Recollection

• 31 Club– Daily prayer for Vocations

• Personal Growth in knowledge and spiritually with others

Social:

• World Day of Consecrated Life

• Seminarian BBQ

• Club Installation Dinners

• District Luncheons

• District and International Conventions

 

For more information on the Serra Club, plese contact:

Dick Voss - President
303 690-0158

Tee Schall
303 766-3210