The Foundation

The Objectives and Purposes of The Serra International Foundation are:

    • to fund programs that foster and promote vocations to the ministerial priesthood of the Catholic Church as a particular vocation to service; and
    • to fund programs of formation for men and women in consecrated religious life in the Catholic Church; and
    • to enhance the recognition of Serra International as the global lay apostolate for vocations in the Catholic Church.

    Activities in District 85:

      • Help send seminarians to the March for Life in Washington, D. C.
      • Celebrate the newly ordained priests of the diocese along with their parents at the Ordinati Dinner
      • Provide Traveling Vocation Crucifixes to schools and parishes to heighten awareness of service to God
      • Give gift bags to all the seminarians before Christmas

    The History of The Serra International Foundation

    The Serra International Foundation was founded in 1951 to assist Serra in fulfilling its objectives of fostering and promoting vocations in the Catholic Church.  Since that time, the Foundation has funded a wide range of programs for the formation and training of priests and consecrated religious.

    Serra International is not a fundraising organization.  Its primary methods are prayer and action.  The Foundation’s role is to support and complement those methods, not to eclipse them.  Nevertheless, the importance of the Foundation’s role has never been greater.