►Vocation Awareness Dear Friends in Christ, National Vocation Awareness Week, which runs November 3-9, 2014, is an opportunity for all of us to focus again on the process by which God leads each member of the faithful to live out the call to follow him. All people are called to follow God wherever he may lead, and the most fundamental way in which we do this is through our vocation. So I wanted to take this opportunity to write a little bit about vocation in general, about what we as Catholics mean when we say “vocation”. And then I hope to talk, albeit briefly, about the three general vocations that are typically discussed in the Catholic Church: married, priest/religious, and single. What, one might ask, is the importance of this discussion? Is there really some plan out there, set up by God, for each of our lives? Can someone get it wrong? I think that the best way to begin to answer these questions is to start in the same place that God started: creation. St. John Paul II reminds us in his encyclical on the family that, “Creating the human race in his own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being” (11). Vocation begins with love, our vocation as human persons is to love. Everything else flows from this fundamental vocation to love. Yours in Christ, Fr. Scott
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:00:00 +0000
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