Serra Club of Oklahoma City

10/23/2025

FR. JOHN HERRERA's devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary shines through his vocation story, told at the September 16 meeting of the Serra Club of Oklahoma City. Watch it. Enjoy it. And please take a moment to pray that Our Lord may bless your diocese with an abundance of priests, deacons, and religious women.

Father John Herrera spoke to the September 2025 meeting of the Serra Club of Oklahoma City. Learn more about the Serra Club of Oklahoma City or become a memb...

09/17/2025

Fr. John Herrera, Pastor at St. Joseph's in Hennessey and Bison, celebrated Mass and told his vocation story at the monthly meeting of the Serra Club of OKC yesterday. Afterwards, lunch at a neighborhood restaurant. Fr. Herrera's Marian devotion was clear to see.

09/03/2025

FR. STEPHEN JONES, Parochial Vicar at St. John the Baptist Parish in Edmond, was the only priest from the Diocese of Oklahoma City present in Rome upon the death of Pope Francis, the convening of the conclave, and the election and installation of the first American pope, Pope Leo XIV. In his talk at the August meeting of the Serra Club of OKC, Fr. Jones reflects on these historic events, on what they meant to him as a young priest, and on the surge of hope he senses in the Universal Church as well as the Church in Oklahoma.

Father Stephen Jones spoke to the August 2025 meeting of the Serra Club of Oklahoma City about his experiences studying in Rome during the death of Pope Fran...

09/02/2025

FR. JOHN HERRERA will tell his vocation story at the next monthly meeting of the Serra Club of OKC on Tuesday, September 16. See details below. Please join us!

08/14/2025

FR. STEPHEN JONES, Parochial Vicar at St. John the Baptist Parish in Edmond, will speak at our next monthly gathering of the Serra Club of OKC on Tuesday, August 19. [SEE FLYER FOR DETAILS.]
Fr. Jones will relate his experiences in Rome this spring, present as he was for the death of a pope, the call of a conclave of cardinals, and the election and installation of a new pope--and an American pope at that. He will tell us how the experience affected him personally and how the transition gives him hope for our diocese in Oklahoma.
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07/29/2025

Whether you are a Serra Club Member or one of our beloved supporters, please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, July 29, at the 12:15 PM Mass in the chapel of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, as members of the Serra Club of OKC mark the end of our novena for vocations by joining in Eucharistic prayer for the success of the Quo Vadis Days vocation retreat for young men and the Talitha Koum vocation retreat for young women.

07/29/2025

Three days ago, Father James Conner, native of Tulsa, OK, and the longest serving Trappist monk at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, died at the age of 92. Fr. Conner entered Gethsemani in 1949 at the age of 16. He was ordained a priest on his parents’ wedding anniversary, June 15, 1957. As undermaster of novices, he assisted Fr. Louis (Thomas Merton), who was his confessor. Fr. Connor revealed the details of his beautiful vocation story in the attached video.

During our mass for the feast day of St. James the apostle, on th 25th of July, 2025, our own beloved Fr. James died. He was born on the 3rd of December, 193...

07/16/2025

Deacon Roy Forsythe of St. John the Baptist Parish, one of the founders of our wildly successful Catholic Men's Conference, spoke at the June meeting of our Serra Club of Oklahoma City. Here's the video of that memorable talk. Deacon Roy's words about his prison ministry, beginning at the 31-minute-mark, are not to be missed.

Deacon Roy Forsythe is a retired Deacon from Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edmond, OK. He spoke about his life and vocation to the permanent diac...

07/09/2025

SERRA MEETING CANCELLATION: Owing to our next speaker's unexpected conflict with the funeral of a very close friend, we must CANCEL next week's meeting. We will re-schedule Deacon Terry Givens for a later meeting.

06/10/2025

Our Serra Club of OKC has been given approval to lead a rosary in Our Lady’s Cathedral for Deacons John Grim and Jonah Beckham at 9:00 AM, Saturday, June 28, one hour prior to the beginning of their Mass of Ordination to the Priesthood.

We will pray a scriptural rosary meditating on the Joyful Mysteries.

NOTHING we do in support of vocations to the priesthood and consecrated religious life is more important than prayer.

Please join us in prayer for these two outstanding seminarians.

06/10/2025

Deacon Roy Forsythe, of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edmond, will tell his vocation story at the June 17 meeting of the Serra Club of OKC. Please join us.

06/10/2025

Fr. Don Wolf, Rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine, telling his vocation story at the May 20 meeting of the Serra Club of OKC.

Father Don Wolf is the pastor of Sacred Hear Catholic Church and Rector of the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City, OK. He spoke at the May 2025 m...