One’s Vocational Call: In the first reading of today’s
liturgy, Acts 18: 9-18, the Lord says to Paul in a vision, “ ‘Do not be afraid. Go on speaking, and do
not be silent, for I am with you. No one will attack and harm you, for I have
many people in this city [Corinth].’ He settled there for a year and a half and
taught the word of God among them.”
Your call to religious life, marriage, the single lifestyle
or the priesthood is no different from Paul’s call to go to Corinth. The Lord
goes with you. The Lord is with you. Trust that fact. Neither will God send you
forth into any vocation in life without giving you the tools to accomplish the
work you are being summoned to accomplish in Jesus’ name, be that of being a
woman/man religious, a priest, a husband
or wife, a father or mother, a dedicated layman/woman devoting his/her all to a
career as a single person to helping others.
“I am with you,” says the Lord!
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