BELMONT — Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv., spoke June 25 to young women attending the 2024 Duc In Altum vocations discernment camp at Belmont Abbey College.
The five-day camp, sponsored by the Diocese of Charlotte’s Vocations Office, is designed for young women ages 16-19 to explore their relationship with God and gain a deeper understanding of their present vocation as daughter – Daughter of God, Daughter of Mary, and Daughter of the Church – through talks and time spent in prayer and worship.
Following the example of Mary, the hope is that young women will open their hearts to responding to vocations as wives and mothers, consecrated religious or consecrated lay faithful.
The name of the vocations camp, Duc In Altum, is Latin for “Put Out Into The Deep” – the advice Jesus gave Peter as described in the Gospel of Luke 5:4.
The phrase is also Bishop Martin’s episcopal motto.
— Photos by Troy Hull and provided by Megan Whiteside
