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Important Vocation Dates to Note

National Vocation Awareness Week
    January 13-19, 2013

World Day for Consecrated Life
    February 2/3, 2013

World Day of Prayer for Vocations
    April 21, 2013

 

Vocations

 
"The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call."
—Pope Benedict XVI, Response to questions by the bishops of the United States in Washington, D.C., April 16, 2008


Stewards of Vocation

Jesus calls us as his disciples to a new way of life—the Christian way of life—of which stewardship is a part. But Jesus does not call us as nameless people in a faceless crowd. He calls individually, by name. Each one of us—clergy, religious, layperson, married, single, adult, child—has a personal vocation. God intends each one of us to play a unique role in carrying out the divine plan.

The challenge, then, is to understand our role—our vocation—and to respond generously to this call from God. Christian vocation entails the practice of stewardship. In addition, Christ calls each of us to be stewards of our personal vocations, which we receive from God.

—from the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

 

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