Confused?

[BlurrD89]

I know that God has unique plan for each and everyone of us. I know that He loves me unconditionally and He will show me His will at His right timing. But i have been praying and meditate the Word of God for days and nights, i wonder what God has called me to do? been doing nothing all the time and what is the meaning of “calling”? been hearing that word from many mouths. “calling” is it always refers to church ministry, missionaries , or church workers? being a priest?i am confused and i would like to know.

 

[Little_One0307]

Hi,

I came from a Protestant background before coming into the Catholic Church.

If I might I would like to share what everyone’s calling is. It is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1st paragraph.

1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Saviour. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

We are called to be in Union with God. How this takes place is different for everyone. The more conformed to His will the deeper our Union is. This is what we were made for.

I would counsel you to pray to God for Him to show you His will and lead you where He wishes to you go in your life. God will show you where He wishes for you to be.

God bless.

 

[promethius]

I know that God has unique plan for each and everyone of us. I know that He loves me unconditionally and He will show me His will at His right timing. But i have been praying and meditate the Word of God for days and nights, i wonder what God has called me to do? been doing nothing all the time and what is the meaning of “calling”? been hearing that word from many mouths. “calling” is it always refers to church ministry, missionaries , or church workers? being a priest?i am confused and i would like to know.

Blurr,

You are too focused on yourself, my friend! You’re asking the wrong question by saying “What does God have in store for me?”

The right question is: “What does God need from me?”

Look around you. There are a myriad of problems in the world that need solving. Maybe your church needs a new roof and you can organize the parish community to solve that problem. Maybe your community is filled with starving homeless and you can gather and serve food. Maybe your church lacks a youth program and you can help there, or there’s no adoration of the Eucharist and you can organize that?

What is broken in the world around you that God needs you to fix? Sometimes a calling is overt. Other times God calls us by placing us simply at the right time, the right place, and with the right skills to do those things which are RIGHT IN FRONT OF US ALL ALONG.

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Look at your world, Blurr. *What does God have in store for you??? * No: what does God need you to do?

 

[BlurrD89]

Hi,

I came from a Protestant background before coming into the Catholic Church.

If I might I would like to share what everyone’s calling is. It is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1st paragraph.

We are called to be in Union with God. How this takes place is different for everyone. The more conformed to His will the deeper our Union is. This is what we were made for.

I would counsel you to pray to God for Him to show you His will and lead you where He wishes to you go in your life. God will show you where He wishes for you to be.

God bless.

Little one? Hrm… What makes u convert to catholic from protestant? I am a protestant actually for long time… Converted to Protestant when I was young adult…due to my family influences… but I am wanting to get into catholic, to start all over again…

 

[Little_One0307]

Little one? Hrm… What makes u convert to catholic from protestant? I am a protestant actually for long time… Converted to Protestant when I was young adult…due to my family influences… but I am wanting to get into catholic, to start all over again…

Actually, it’s a very long story, suffice it to say simply put it was the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. I am praying whether to share my conversion story or not on CAF, because before I was Southen Baptist, I tried many isms and got into some really, really bad stuff. Looking back over my life, I see the hand of God at work, I should have been dead several times over.

I can say that at one point I tried to write a thesis as an undergraduate trying to prove that the Catholic Church was false. At the time of the writing I had converted back to Christainity and was a Southern Baptist this came about because of another undergraduate thesis paper.] I, and it had to be the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was inspired if I could prove that the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist was false, well then I could prove all of the Catholic Church false. The doctrine of the Eucharist is the central doctrine of Catholicism. The Eucharist is the source, summit, and [errrg something else I cannot recall] of our Christain Life. - I’ll have to find this quote in the CCC one of these days. And at the time, I was very attracted by the idea of causing 2000 years of Catholicism crashing down because their central doctrine was false.

Well, in time I believed other wise. And I pray that you will do the same. I would encourage you to join the Catholic Catechism Study Group, Blessed Pope John Paul II said of the CCC that “it is the sure norm of teaching the Catholic faith.” There are many good discussions going on, and I make sure that they are in line with the Magisterial Teaching of the Church.

I will keep you in my prayers.

God bless.