Can you have more than 1 vocation?

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Just wondering if you can have more than one vocation. I am married, so other than marriage, can there be another vocation out there for me (or others that are already in a vocation)?

Hoping someone will know !

Thanks in advance!
 
Of course! You may have a vocation in a particular career, for example.

My mother as well as marriage and parenthood also had and has a clear vocation to be a doctor - and she’s a brilliant one. Likewise my father and older sister.
 
pink said:
Just wondering if you can have more than one vocation. I am married, so other than marriage, can there be another vocation out there for me (or others that are already in a vocation)?

Hoping someone will know !

Thanks in advance!
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You probably had some religious vocation in mind?
You can consider some Third Secular Orders.
 
Yep, Seculars look interesting. And, if your wife will support you in this, you can look at being a deacon.
 
A vocation is a call…and I think one can have more than one call. One may be married and a member of a Third Order or perhaps a deacon…or called to some ministry. I think perhaps a state in life (and a vocation) is something different and is foundational to all calls and prime? I am totally unsure where the deaconate is involved whether a married deacon needs put his marriage or his duties as deacon first? I am on unsure ground and will look forward to the replies in this thread and hope to be the more informed because of it.

Blessings all and in Peace…Barb:)
 
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Yep, Seculars look interesting. And, if your wife will support you in this, you can look at being a deacon.
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LOL! I am the wife. 🙂
If my husband had the screen name “pink”, I would be a little worried. lol 😛

thanks for the replies everyone!
 
In the Eastern Catholic (and Orthodox) Churches a married man can be ordained to the priesthood, so they clearly can have two vocations.

God Bless
 
OK, so it’s Tertiaries, then. (unless you want to wear pink with the Hari Krishna :whacky: )

Here are the folks I’ve been most attracted to, myself. Founder is still alive, and he and his family were close to St. Pio. Way of life is patterned on St. Maximilian. Vows include total consecration to Mary. Order personally erected in Rome by JPII. Dynamite evangelists.

Franciscan Tertiaries of the Immaculate

Who are the Franciscans of the Immaculate?

Website of the Immaculate

Air Maria

Great folks! 👍
 
pink said:
Just wondering if you can have more than one vocation. I am married, so other than marriage, can there be another vocation out there for me (or others that are already in a vocation)?

Hoping someone will know !

Thanks in advance!
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I’m a married Lay Passionist with a vocation to assist discerners to the religious life. I knew I wanted to help Catholics become priests and nuns when I was still a Baptist.

I was a Lay Dominican for a few years, and started a Dominican laity group in TN–also helped the Secular Franciscans and Discalced Carmelites find each other and form fraternities/groups. One good friend from church was a Benedictine Oblate, affiliated with St. John’s in MN.

So, yes, you can have several vocations going at one time.

HTH.

Blessings,
Cloisters
 
ok… for vocations i believe you can have more than one… just like most people here have said…

now if you are talking about vocations in relation to becoming a religious or to get married… i don’t think so… unless i heard by mutual agreement of all parties ( you and your spouse ) i heard you can enter the religious life but separately of course ( if one enters so does the other and are usually kept apart)… but that i could have learned wrong…

another… a person can be an oblate (part of a third order of a congregation) and be single or married…

did that in any way help? i hope so!
 
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