𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

By Daniel kabiriko -
𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹
𝗥𝗲𝘃. 𝗙𝗿. 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘇, 𝗙𝗦𝗦𝗣𝗫

Each person has a unique vocation. I need to know what God wants for me because He has already chosen my vocation. 

Unique Calling

Catechism teaches us that “man is created to praise, honor and serve God, and through that means to save his soul.” That is our general vocation. It’s identical for everyone. But since we are unique in God’s eyes, He has a special vocation or calling to each one of us. None of us is simply made for career, to make money, to fulfil this or that job. It is not up to us to choose our state of life. Yes, we have free will, but we must use it not to do what we feel like but to find out and embrace what God has made us for. We didn’t create ourselves; we didn’t give ourselves a purpose, God did. Our job is to do His will; find it, recognize it and do it.

Following Christ

"Whoever wants to be my disciple (i.e., to go to heaven) one must (1) deny himself and (2) take up his cross daily and (3) follow Me." (Lk 9:23) When it comes to choosing a state of life (parenthood, priesthood/religious life, and singlehood), it’s a choice of how you’re going to imitate Jesus Christ. Otherwise, we lose our direction. How many people get married simply because they fell in love with another person? Does Christ have any part in this? “It takes three to get married.”

When you choose your state of life – all beautiful, meaningful, and sacrificial – you choose your way of giving everything back to God, allowing yourself to be fastened to the cross with Our Lord. Christ lived a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience (humility or subjection). In order to be His disciple, these three things are going to have a place in your life. Our Lord counselled some souls to give these three virtues of poverty, chastity and obedience a prominent place in their life by vow. Not everyone is called to this, but everyone is called to imitate Christ, and so everyone is called to appreciate and practice these virtues of poverty, chastity and humility.
 
How can we prepare or dispose ourselves to choose the right state of life?  We must keep yourself free from disorderly attachments and the slavery of vices. Listen to the words of St. Peter in today’s Epistle (“as strangers and pilgrims”; “to refrain yourselves from carnal desire”; “subject yourselves”) addressed to everyone, not just priests or religious. Marriage or Singlehood is not for (1) materialism or money, (2) pleasures or (3) independence or selfishness.

(1) If our heart is filled with materialism and greed, these ruin our vocation in life whichever it is. 

(2) Someone who is addicted to pornography or impurity, or alcohol is unfit not only to be a religious, but even to be a good spouse.

(3) Addiction social media, etc. because their use makes the young person almost completely self-centered in their daily life. In the final analysis, social media platforms can do the same amount of damage to a woman’s heart as pornography does to a young man’s heart.

So, we must make the necessary sacrifices to remain free and strong and open and silent enough to be able to hear the voice of God.
 
How to discover one’s vocation?

(1) Prayer, retreat – like Saul, on his way to Damascus: “What do you want me to do?” Where would I most easily forget about myself and spend my life lovingly for You? For some, the answer will be marriage, with all its daily demands of self-sacrifice for children and a spouse. For others, it will be more directly at the foot of the altar.

(2) Prudent advice from good Catholic parents.

(3) Seeking advice from a priest. He will not make the decision for you. You cannot expect this of him. He does not give you a vocation. God does. It is his task to hear through your words and life the echo of God’s call – a call that often he recognizes more easily than others, because he has heard that Voice before.

We must look at Christ and turn towards the Father to find out what His will is; that He may enlighten our mind; that He may strengthen our will to follow the vocation that He has chosen for each one of us.
Don't define me by your logics, just feel me in your soul.

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