Personal Past Vis-A-Vis Personal Vocation

[Ostro_Picta]

I am a single and normal 24 year old male (with a four year university degree).

After a very long process of soul-searching, I began RCIA this August. I should enter the Church this coming Lent. I truly feel I have a religious vocation. But I am frightened to explore this.

I have a misdemeanor (nothing to do with sex, drugs, alcohol, or finances) conviction.
I am afraid that I will have my hopes dashed when I talk with my priest and/or the local Vocation’s Director.

Does anyone have any advice?

 

[Dorothy]

I am a single and normal 24 year old male (with a four year university degree).

After a very long process of soul-searching, I began RCIA this August. I should enter the Church this coming Lent. I truly feel I have a religious vocation. But I am frightened to explore this.

I have a misdemeanor (nothing to do with sex, drugs, alcohol, or finances) conviction.
I am afraid that I will have my hopes dashed when I talk with my priest and/or the local Vocation’s Director.

Does anyone have any advice?

Let yourself be a Catholic for a while before you pursue this. If you have a vocation your hopes won’t necessarily be dashed. Pray and trust the Lord to lead you to whatever His will is.

 

[DevotedChild]

Let yourself be a Catholic for a while before you pursue this. If you have a vocation your hopes won’t necessarily be dashed. Pray and trust the Lord to lead you to whatever His will is.

exactly. Don’t jump the gun to soon. There is a time and place for everything.

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

First rule of any vocational discernment is to get a spiritual director.