I said that the Catholic Church does not teach that God has an individual plan for each of us. You cite your interpretation of Jeremiah. The Church has not interpreted that passage of Scripture in the manner that you do.
What I said is true. You are perfectly free to believe that God has a specific “plan” for you (because the Church has also not taught otherwise) but you are not free to claim that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church (because it’s not).
If you have the choice to work at Burger King or McDonalds, and either choice would not impede your salvation, why would you think God would care which choice you accept?
Well…Scripture is Catholic doctrine…:d
Vocation does not equal job. Your job is what you do, your vocation is what you are. Those are quite different things. As for the example you have given doesn’t illumine us at all, that’s about a job, not vocation. No one has a vocation to work at McDonald’s, but we are all called to work, if not impeded, by natural, psychological problems or other reasons.
I would guess you don’t pray very much that God may make his will known to you.
He is omniscient. He has set in motion everything that ever was, is and ever will be. He’s not just the one who started it all, but he governs over all creation, material and immaterial.
The divine providence is a mystery. We cannot hope to know all there is about it, but God has an universal plan, for all of us, and an individual plan, with each and every one of us.
For his will we must pray daily, in the morning, so that we may know what he want’s from us in a specific day, and that we may know what’s his plan with our lives.
EDIT: May I add…the Catechism?!
303 The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence is concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history. The sacred books powerfully affirm God’s absolute sovereignty over the course of events: “Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.” And so it is with Christ, “who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens”. As the book of Proverbs states: “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.”
304 And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes. This is not a “primitive mode of speech”, but a profound way of recalling God’s primacy and absolute Lordship over history and the world,165 and so of educating his people to trust in him. The prayer of the Psalms is the great school of this trust.
305 Jesus asks for childlike abandonment to the providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children’s smallest needs: “Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?”. . . Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.”
Does this count as Catholic doctrine?!
