Vocation for Everyone

“Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her mission in history, an obedience in response to the command of Christ: ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all nations’” (PDV, 1).

September is Vocation Month. We must pray and act for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Everyone’s priority must not be material affluence but spiritual growth. Hence, we need more spiritual leaders to inspire and show us the way.

If vocation is everyone’s concern, the family must take the lead. “The Christian family, in fact, is the first community called to announce the Gospel to the human person during growth and to bring him or her, through a progressive education and catechesis, to full human and Christian maturity” (FC, 2).

Whether in priestly and religious life or single blessedness or marriage, each of us is called to be holy. “Strengthened by so many and such great means of salvation, all the faithful, whatever their condition or state – though each in his own way – are called by the Lord to that perfection of sanctity by which the Father himself is perfect” (LG 11).