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benedictinehopeful
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I’m in the midst of discerning my vocation, and I’d like to hear some of your vocation stories. Answer in as much detail as you desire.
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White_Tree
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I prayed. A lot. And received absolute clarity about the road I had to travel. Not just once, but over, and over, and over again, from many different sources in my life, both internal and external, and it was consistent over the course of many years.
And I was absolutely terrified. I fought it. I tried to use reasoning to prove to myself that I was wrong. When that failed, I invented moral justifications for why that could not be what God was telling me to do. But when I looked into myself, I realized that those justifications, which I was pretending were based on morals, were really just manifestations of my fear.
My vocation director told me I was wrong. My parents didn’t like it. I didn’t like it. But the message from God was abundantly clear. So I went where He told me to go.
And I was absolutely terrified. I fought it. I tried to use reasoning to prove to myself that I was wrong. When that failed, I invented moral justifications for why that could not be what God was telling me to do. But when I looked into myself, I realized that those justifications, which I was pretending were based on morals, were really just manifestations of my fear.
My vocation director told me I was wrong. My parents didn’t like it. I didn’t like it. But the message from God was abundantly clear. So I went where He told me to go.
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benedictinehopeful
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What is your vocation?
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White_Tree
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I won’t go into too much detail. I am a spiritual mentor of sorts, for a rather large community, but I am not a priest or deacon, nor any sort of ordained minister. I had an interest in the priesthood very early on, and a big part of me wanted to join. My vocation director wanted me to join the priesthood as well.
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