Are people called to be Prophets?

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Is being a prophet a vocation or is it just an important role? In the bible from what I know from the story of Moses and Jonah it seems to me that prophets have similar qualities that regular vocations like the (my vocation) married life and religious life have. Have prophets disappeared in modern day or have changed from what they use to be?
 
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Is being a prophet a vocation or is it just an important role? In the bible from what I know from the story of Moses and Jonah it seems to me that prophets have similar qualities that regular vocations like the (my vocation) married life and religious life have. Have prophets disappeared in modern day or have changed from what they use to be?
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I think the role in the Catholic Church is filled in the present by Saints. So in that regard, no - they continue into the present. How notable you are and whether you’re canonized as such is up to the Church and is, AFAIK, determined after your death. Which is as it should be.
 
Prophecy is a gift of the Holy Spirit. According to the Catholic “spiritual inventories” it’s one of my gifts. I score highest in that and teaching, much lower in other areas. Everybody’s different.
Having the gift of prophecy doesn’t make you an official, OT prophet. It’s just a gift.
 
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The Spirit helps the prophet to understand and transmit Christ’s Word to groups or individuals. The Spirit of God enables the prophet to instruct, exhort, admonish, or encourage them in any given situation.
 
Not in the manner of the Great Prophets.

Jesus said of the Forerunner and Precursor, John, that he was the “last and greatest prophet.”

No other prophets were needed, as the Messiah arrived and John pointed Him out as the Lamb of God.

Those with prophetic gifts of the Holy Spirit, are not Prophets in that sense. They build up the mystical Body of Christ (as do all charismatic gifts), but do not speak in God’s place, as all necessary revelation was completed by our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Those with gifts of tongues or healing and such build up and edify the Body of Christ. But they are not the same as the Apostles who healed in Jesus’s name.

Deacon Christopher
 
Perfect reply Deacon. Maybe one day I can follow in your foot steps after I’m married.
 
I have observed two kinds of prophesy. One is the prophecy of the moment. This occurs when someone can identify the truth, using the gift of discernment, as it unfolds through thought, word, or deed.
The second, is the more familiar type of prophecy, when someone tells of a future event. Sometimes when someone reports a prophecy we think we have to, obediently, wait for it to happen. I think God gives us prophecy so we can change the future if we will it. It sounds like determinism when someone believes the future, based on a prophecy, cannot be changed. If we have a heart for God and free will he gave us, we can change the future. We are not robots made of stone. It is better to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in the moment.
 
The closest thing to OT prophets today are inborn-mystics that have visions of Private Revelations.

As it has already been said, the content of their visions isn’t really new but a reflexion of Public Revelation.
 
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