What is a Vocation?

Vocation Sunday

Deacon Greg Kandra has an excellent Vocation Sunday homily posted on his blog.  Here is a quote:

"The fact is that everyone in this church today has a vocation. Every one of us is called. How we choose to answer that call – or choose not to – defines us not only for this life, but also for the next. For a lot of us, it may be marriage and raising a family. It may be living in the world as single man or woman. But for some of us, it may even involve a religious vocation – and it just might sneak up on you and alter your life in amazing ways."

Check out the full homily here: Homily for April 29th

Vocations Week

John Henry Cardinal Newman on Vocation:

“God has created me to do him some definitive service;

he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another.”

Last Week was Vocations Week.  We all have one, homely this video will help you discern yours.

Vocations

A nice reflection on vocations.  We will cover this later in the year.

Vocation Sunday

Sunday was the 48th World Day of Prayer for Vocations.

Vocation comes from the Latin “vocare” and means “called.”  Below are some items for reflection that relate to discerning one's vocations.

John Henry Cardinal Newman on Vocation:

“God has created me to do him some definitive service;

he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another.”

Blessed John Paul II on his priestly Vocation:

“I  am often asked, especially by young people, why I became a priest.  Maybe some of you would like to ask the same question.  Let me try briefly to reply.  I must begin by saying that it is impossible to explain entirely.  For it remains a mystery, even to myself.  How does one explain the ways of God?  Yet, I know that, at a certain point in my life, I became convinced that Christ was saying to me what he had said to thousands before me: 'Come, follow me!'  There was a clear sense that what I heard in my heart was no human voice, nor was it just an idea of my own.  Christ was calling me to serve him as a priest.

And you can probably tell that I am deeply grateful to God for my vocation to the priesthood.  Nothing means more to me or gives me greater joy that to celebrate Mass each day and to serve God's people in the Church.  That has been true ever since the day of my ordination as a priest.  Nothing has ever changed this, not even becoming Pope."

Pope Benedict XVI's letter in honor of the World Day of Prayer for Vocation:

Link to Pope Benedict's Letter