Homily on Vocations

If you go and check out any of the priestly blogs from St.Blogs chances are you'll find a homily on vocations or reflections on vocations in light of the Gospel reading from yesterday (See Dappled Things and Bonfire of the Vanities for instance). I've read some of these, but I found one in particular from White Around the Collar to be encouraging. I think all too often when people think of vocations they think of the priesthood or religious life but that is only half the picture. We cannot ignore that marriage and the single life are no less calls to holiness. In discernment it's not a question of trying to 'figure out' where we're best suited or weigh the pros and cons, but rather it's a discovery of a unique gift that God has already given us.

In his homily Father even used one of my favourite recent Pope Benedict XVI quotes:

“the person who abandons himself totally in God's hands does not become God's puppet, a boring "yes man"; he does not lose his freedom. Only the person who entrusts himself totally to God finds true freedom, the great, creative immensity of the freedom of good.”