A pilot parish was selected in each Vicariate and subsequent meetings arranged with these parishes. The period October to November 2006 was slated as the time to get everything ready for the start of the project in December 2006, when the pilot parishes would start rotating the Cup among the first twelve families selected on a weekly basis. The project would operate on a quarterly basis.

The Ashby family, first in round two, passes the cup to the Prudhomme family at the morning Mass on Sunday, May 6

The Vocations Cup is really a beautiful chalice, which the parish priest must bless before putting into use, complete with carrying case, and comes with the relevant Vocations Prayer cards for each family member.

Whereas the family is allowed to keep the prayer cards after their week of prayers for vocations in the setting of a family meal – for it is hoped that they will continue their family prayer - they must pass the Cup on to the next family after one week, at the end of one of the weekend Masses.

The objective of the Vocations Cup Project is primarily to encourage Catholic Families to pray for vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life while creating a consciousness that vocations are born out of prayer and sacrifice.

 It is also an effort to re-create the culture of family prayer and the family meal in the home and the awareness of the necessity, as a Catholic Christian believer, to seek to know God’s will for one’s life.

St Charles Parish in Tunapuna was selected as the pilot parish for the Suburban Vicariate.
At the end of the Sunday morning Mass on 31st December, 2006, Fr Reginald Hezekiah presented the cup to Mrs. Mennen Walker-Briggs and her family beginning the first round of the project in the parish.  Some of our first twelve families are clamoring for a second chance.

 The second round began on 29th April, 2007 in celebration of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations.  In picture, the Ashby family, first in round two, passes the cup to the Prudhomme family at the morning Mass on Sunday 6th May, 2007.

At St Charles we consider ourselves blessed to have been chosen for this pilot project and our selected families doubly blessed.