Helping children understand how priests and nuns live might help counter the lack of Religious vocations, says an Indonesian bishop.

“What we are facing now is the lack of answers to the religious vocation itself,” said Bishop Petrus Boddeng Timang of Banjarmasin.

His diocese organized a special program for children to mark Vocation Sunday on May 15.  About 200 children from nine parishes in the diocese joined in the program to introduce them to how priests and nuns lived.

“It is hoped that the children can have a simple description of what life in the community houses is like,” organizers said.

More than half the priests and nuns serving in the diocese are from elsewhere.