Friday, May 15, 2015

Vocational Call



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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