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Offline forlorn

Re: Discerning One's Vocation By De-Fault
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2019, 02:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Pax Vobis on July 19, 2019, 04:03:05 PM
This article is so general, that it didn't even need to be written.
I found the tip of considering what one's primary vice is and how it might be tested by different walks of life to be useful. It sounds obvious now that I've heard it, and yet it's not something I had considered beforehand. 
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Discerning One's Vocation By De-Fault
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2019, 05:56:08 PM »
Quote from: forlorn on July 23, 2019, 02:42:19 PM
I found the tip of considering what one's primary vice is and how it might be tested by different walks of life to be useful. It sounds obvious now that I've heard it, and yet it's not something I had considered beforehand.
I am glad you found the idea of the primary vices useful.  I hadn't put it all together in my mind until a couple years ago but once I did it helped me determine my vocation.  I wished I had made sense of it earlier and that is why I shared it here.  So, others might be saved the many years I had of trying to figure out how to discern one's vocation at all.  God bless! 
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Offline Seraphina

Re: Discerning One's Vocation By De-Fault
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2019, 07:50:01 PM »
I’m in a vocation by default.  :'(   I’d never heard of choosing or discerning a vocation until I was 48 years of age—-a little too late.  I was raised “Catholic” but wasn’t taught much of anything.  For better or worse, I’m single, in the world.  Looking back, I never envisioned myself as married with children, so I believe in a different age, I’d have become a sister, probably in a teaching, nursing, or missionary order.  At age 61, with health issues, I think I must continue as I am!
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Offline AMDGJMJ

Re: Discerning One's Vocation By De-Fault
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2019, 11:08:32 AM »
Quote from: Seraphina on July 23, 2019, 07:50:01 PM
I’m in a vocation by default.  :'(   I’d never heard of choosing or discerning a vocation until I was 48 years of age—-a little too late.  I was raised “Catholic” but wasn’t taught much of anything.  For better or worse, I’m single, in the world.  Looking back, I never envisioned myself as married with children, so I believe in a different age, I’d have become a sister, probably in a teaching, nursing, or missionary order.  At age 61, with health issues, I think I must continue as I am!
Most people don't talk about vocations as much as they once did.  So, it is not your fault.  
Sorry about your health...  😣
Hang in there!  🤗
And please keep us all in your prayers!  😇
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Offline MrsMegafin

Re: Discerning One's Vocation By De-Fault
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2019, 05:50:27 AM »
While it can be an overgeneralization, rarely people think about this. A lot of boys from boys schools have run off to the seminary without vocations, similarly how many people have married because the intellect jellied and they made a bad decision? I know a trad who literally tries to get all single men to run off anywhere there are Catholic men and just get married. That does not necessarily form a virtuous marriage!
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