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Subject: Re: VOCATION


Author:
Bill Wathen
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Date Posted: 05:31:32 04/23/02 Tue
In reply to: Sr. Pat Froning 's message, "VOCATION" on 09:19:08 04/04/02 Thu

I have always had a problem with the use of the word "vocation." I have been told on many occasions that my marriage is my vocation. And that only a priest or religious have a vocation to ministry. I maintain that my marriage is my martial status and that a priest's or religious' martial status is "unmarried and chaste" hopefully. If my vocation is marriage, and my ministry is just a "job," then what is a priest of religious persons job? Why can't a priest or religious have the vocation of celibacy and ministry and why can't a lay person have the vocation of marriage and ministry? Does anything I say here make any sense at all?

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