Higher Calling

[sadie2723]

Hello all.

I am wondering what some of the signs of a higher calling tend to be? I do not think that I am going to be a priest, but my conversion story is a source of strength for those that hear it. I was wondering what you thought that I should do with it?

It was never my intention to help with the ministry, but it may be that I am being called. What do you think? Help!

Brad

 

[Khoria_Anna]

Find a good spiritual director. Perhaps your parish priest or confessor could serve that role or point you in the right direction. Pray. Pray. Pray. Most vocations don’t come as a lightning bolt from the sky, but rather as a niggling “what if?”. I’ll keep you in my prayers.

 

[demerzel85]

Even if there are ‘lightning bolts’, they still remain as points of discernment.

 

[Rising_Suns]

Hello all.

I am wondering what some of the signs of a higher calling tend to be? I do not think that I am going to be a priest, but my conversion story is a source of strength for those that hear it. I was wondering what you thought that I should do with it?

It was never my intention to help with the ministry, but it may be that I am being called. What do you think? Help!

Brad

Dear Sadie,
The following is an exert from this website; religious-vocation.com/discerning_religious_vocation.html

How certain must I be?

…] one need not have absolute certainty of a calling to the religious life in order to have a genuine vocation. According to the Saints, it is not even necessary to have a majority of certainty (e.g., 51% religious life vs. 49% married state). All that is needed to pursue a religious vocation is the slightest inkling of a desire. If there is but the smallest seed within a soul that causes the soul to consider the consecrated life, then this is enough reason to water and cultivate this seed, to see whether is takes root or not. “To know whether God will have a person become a religious it is not to be expected that God Himself should speak, or send an angel from heaven to signify His will. It is not necessary that ten or twelve confessors should examine whether the vocation is to be followed. But it is necessary to correspond with the first movement of the inspiration, and to cultivate it, and then not to grow weary if disgust or coldness should come on. If a person acts thus, God will not fail to make all succeed to His glory. Nor ought we to care much from what quarter the first movement comes. The Lord has many ways of calling His servants.”

- St. Francis De Sales
Many Blessings.