19th Annotation | brrob@utcatholic.org
Each academic year the Spiritual Exercises are offered to students in the 19th Annotation. Meeting weekly with a Spiritual Director the students follow St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises and commit to 30-45 minutes of personal prayer each day for 32+ weeks.

CROSS+ROADS | brrob@utcatholic.org
CROSS+ROADS is the University Catholic Center's newly formed vocation awareness group for undergraduate students. Participants gather each month for prayer, presentations on discernment and vocations, group conversations, and social time.

Service Expo | brrob@utcatholic.org
Each Fall 30+ full-time, faith-based volunteer programs come to the University Catholic Center for our annual Service Expo. These programs offer graduates an opportunity to experience faith-based service as part of vocational discernment and service. 

Mission Opportunities

Spring Vocation Pilgrimages | brrob@utcatholic.org
Men and women who desire to learn more about the consecrated life, single life, priesthood, or another life of service in the Catholic Church take a trip together to spend time with different religious communities, stay with them, pray along-side them, share meals, and serve with them, all the while contemplating how God might be calling them to live their lives.

The next annual pilgrimage is May 9-16, 2023. 

Women's Vocation Pilgrimage | jocelyn@utcatholic.org
An Undivided Heart,  takes place in December just before the winter break. University women commit to living in community, accompanied by our campus minister, Jocelyn, and journey through the Diocese of Austin, visiting various religious communities. The pilgrimage gives women an opportunity to dive deeper into the evangelical councils of poverty, chastity and obedience while entering into the daily life of consecrated heart.

Fall 2023 Vocation Pilgrimage TBD

Empowered by the Spirit | brrob@utcatholic.org
Empowered by the Spirit is the University Catholic Center's programming initiative focused on aiding students in vocation discernment and providing them with opportunities to develop as confident Christian leaders. Students are invited to participate in small vocation discernment groups, retreats, and spiritual direction focused on identifying, cultivating, and employing their gifts in service to their communities of faith. In addition, students are provided with Christian leadership formation through professional networking and mentoring with Catholic faculty and staff at UT Austin, the greater-Austin Catholic community, and Catholic alumni of the university.

Resources for Vocations:

• Diocese of Austin
• Marist Vocations

Masters in Counseling, Divine Mercy University
Graduate psychology and counseling degrees rooted in Faith, based in science

(ACE) Alliance for Catholic Education, University of Notre Dame
A two-year graduate teaching fellowship and formation experience in which participants serve in under-resourced Catholic schools while also earning a cost-free M.Ed. from the University of Notre Dame

Bilken Teaching Corps, Saint Louis University
Earn a Master of Arts in Teaching while serving in underserved Catholic Schools in MO and IL

Nursing and Counseling Programs,  Franciscan University 
Designed to be completed in six semesters, the program cirriculum is rooted in the Catholic tradition and includes core course work in nursing and counseling

Business Administration, Theology, Philosophy, University of Mary
A Christian, Catholic and Benedictine University with a range of programs