Sunday, October 25thVocations and God’s call

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Have you ever heard this before?

• What do you want to be when you grow up?

Free Will

• What is Free Will?

• If you love somebody do you force them to love you back?

• Free Will is a gift from our Tremendous Lover.

• Deuteronomy 30:19

Vocations. Again

• What is a vocation?– Not simply a job.– It’s your calling. What God wants.

Unique to You• God has a unique

and perfect plan for you– Perfect doesn’t

mean easy.– Remember,

Holiness is in the plan for all of us.

Universal Holiness• The foundational call from God is not

to a particular vocation, job, career, or way of life, but to universal holiness and communion with Him.

• This is the basis of all happiness.

But wait a second• Sometimes your job and your

vocation go together.– Provide for your family financially.– Doing your job well is living out your

vocation.

• So Careers are important.– But sacrificing what's most important for

the sake of your career is never ok.• Hebrews 13:5

Who you are not• Is a person defined by where they

work?

• Then what is a person defined by?

So what now?• Just wait for God to call?

Surrender

TRUST1 Peter 5:7

Prayer• Very very necessary• Building our relationship with God.

“Feel often during the day the need for prayer and pray. Prayer opens the heart, till it is capable of containing God himself. Ask and seek and your heart will be big enough to receive Him and keep Him as Your Own.”

-Mother Teresa

Discernment• We are figuring out what God wants

us to do with our lives.

• John 15:16

• Remember, we are free to chose to follow God’s plan.

The Rundown

Trust and Prayer

Discernment

FREEDOM

Quote of the day

“It is therefore indispensable for each one to seek and to recognize day after day the long path on which the Lord is leading him to his personal encounter with him. Dear friends, question yourselves seriously about your vocation and be ready to answer the Lord who is calling you to take the place he has prepared for your from eternity.”

Who said it?

John Paul II

World Youth Day XIII Address, no.8

Different Paths

• Marriage

• Holy Orders

• Committed Single Live

Marriage• The duty to lead your spouse to

Heaven.• Provide and care for children,

materially and spiritually.

Holy Orders• Bishops, Priests, Nuns, Deacons

• Married to the Church. • The Church is the “Bride of Christ.”

• The call to lead the members of the Church to Heaven.

Committed single life• A very real calling, its not for people

who just couldn’t find the right person to marry.

• Remain single to better serve Jesus and His Church.

• Can provide for the needs of those who have no one to provide for them.

What if we miss the boat?• Is having the right vocation, job, or

career essential for a person’s happiness?

• Surprisingly, NO!

Words to live by• Matthew 5:3-12

• The Beatitudes - Jesus’s only public sermon

Questions• What is your dream job? Why?• What do the words “discernment” and

“vocation” mean to you?• Do you trust God with your future? Why

or why not?• Have you taken the time to think about

what vocation God may be calling you to? How can you continue to discern where God is calling you?

• Is there one vocation that you fear God is calling you to? Why?

Skit• Now come up with a skit about trying

to do God’s Will.