Man’s Only Vocation

“Man is by nature and vocation a religious being. Coming from God, going toward God, man lives a fully human life only if he freely lives by his bond with God” (CCC 44). Bonded to God who is holy, man is destined for holiness.

The Catechism further states that though sinners all, God in His goodness invites man to share in His own blessed life, in The Holy Spirit, through Jesus (CCC 1).  Conformed to His holy will, and reinstated to His grace through Jesus, man can achieve his foremost vocation of pleasing God.

Made in God’s perfect image, the heart of man is not comfortable with sin. Man’s heart was made for goodness; a vessel where God can be loved back, and shared with fellow men. God does not only look at man’s heart, but listens, counsels, blesses through the heart even in one’s failure.

When man strives to discern his purpose, he needs only to look at his heart and joyfully discover that “created for God, and by God, the desire for God, his Creator, is written in his heart (CCC 27).

May this month of September, Vocation Month, make us faithful to our only vocation.