Are You Hearing God’s Call?
In the simplest terms, “vocation” means a “call.” In general terms your vocation is what God calls you to do with your life. Everyone is called to know, love and serve God in this life, in order to be happy with him forever in heaven. Yet each one does this through a vocation such as marriage, religious life, or the priesthood.
For more information on how to discern God’s will for your life and vocation, please talk with a parish priest.
Discernment
Dicerning Women
A woman who enters consecrated life chooses to deepen her baptismal commitment by taking vows which emphasize the values of prayer, loving service, and simple living in community with others. Consecrated women serve the Church and community in many ways, including: youth ministry, homeless and hungry, battered women, education, healthcare, family life and parish pastoral ministry. Some Sisters are totally dedicated to the contemplative life. Additional resources to help a discerning woman discover the next steps in her journey can be found at http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/vocations/discerning-women/index.cfm. May God bless you as you search for His holy will.
Dicerning Men
A religious priest or brother commits himself to Christ and the Christian community by the Evangelical Counsels, or vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. This consecrated life is expressed in various forms: Eremitic Life, Religious Life, Secular Institutes, and Societies of Apostolic Life. To learn more, please look at the resources at http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/vocations/discerning-men/
Vocation Prayers
Prayer To Know One’s Vocation
Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you. But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength righ to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen
Prayer To The Holy Trinity For Priests
“Most Holy Trinity, please grant our Holy Father, our Bishop and all clergy the perseverance, fortitude, strength, wisdom and compassion necessary to fight the forces of evil which assail them from within and without the Church. Help them to lead their flocks to full conversion, final perseverance and eternal salvation. We ask this through Jesus Christ who lives and reign in heaven together with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen”
Diocesan Vocations Director
- Name: Rev. Robert Matya
- Phone: 402-474-7914
- Email: [email protected]
If you believe that you may have a vocation to the consecrated life, a Diocesan Vocation Director can help you discern. Feel free to call and discuss.