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Renewing Your Call

Renewing Your Call. Presented through the Chicago Archdiocesan Vocation Association (CAVA). Vocation. What has been your experience of vocation? Vocare – to call. Vocation. When were we called for the first time? At Baptism; a call to a life of holiness To a life of love & discipleship

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Renewing Your Call

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  1. Renewing Your Call Presented through the Chicago Archdiocesan Vocation Association (CAVA)

  2. Vocation • What has been your experience of vocation? • Vocare – to call

  3. Vocation • When were we called for the first time? • At Baptism; a call to a life of holiness • To a life of love & discipleship • To love God, self and others.

  4. Vocation • Called by God • To be what I was created to be by God • To become my unique self and • To continue discovering my identity as God’s beloved • My uniqueness is shared through a show of love through a particular lifestyle

  5. Lifestyles • Lifestyle choices are not the same as career choices.

  6. Lifestyles • In following our baptismal call we focus our love in one of three lifestyles as adult Christians 1. Married 2. Priesthood or religious Life 3. Single

  7. Lifestyle – Called to marriage • Marriage- primary loving relationship is with spouse, children, in-laws, then to friends, neighbors and others.

  8. Lifestyle – Called to marriage • Married couples: • live a life of prayer and Christian service at home, and in the broader community • offer their gifts and talents in service to their Church community • participate in the sacramental life of the church

  9. Lifestyle – Called to single life • A single Christian:- primary relationship is with family and friends.

  10. Lifestyle – Called to single life • lives a life of prayer and faithful Christian service at home and in broader community • offers his/her gifts and talents in service to the Church community • Participates in the sacramental life of the Church

  11. Called to priesthood or religious life • Priesthood or Religious Life:- primary relationship is with God and then with the community, local church, or other priests/religious, as well as with family and friends.

  12. Lifestyle – Called to priesthood or religious life • Priesthood or Religious Life: • lives a prayerful life in faithful service of the Church, witnessing to, and proclaiming the Word of God, celebrating and administering the sacraments (Priesthood) • as a diocesan priest, lives a celibate life of vowed obedience to the bishop

  13. Lifestyle – Called to consecrated life • A person called to consecrated life lives as a religious • Sister • Brother • Priest or as a • Consecrated Virgin

  14. Lifestyle – Called to consecrated life • Feels God calling them to a community of life, prayer, faith and service among God's people, within a spirit or charism of a particular Congregation • Serves the people of God by sharing in the common life and mission of the Congregation

  15. Lifestyle – Called to consecrated life • Participates in personal prayer, community prayer, the Eucharist, and other sacraments of the Church • Professes vows of poverty, chastity (consecrated celibacy), and obedience lived within community

  16. Scripture • Look into Scripture to find a number of stories of people who have been called. • Who are some of them? • Jeremiah • Abraham • St. Paul • Apostles • Jesus • Mary • Joseph • Moses

  17. Scripture Story: 1 Samuel 3: 1-10 Vocation

  18. “Board of Directors” Activity

  19. Experiencing Call:Ongoing call and response • Falling in love • Learning to love appropriately • Learning to sustain our love (choosing to remain loving) • Growing in love • Generative love/sharing • Calling forth a response from others/mentoring

  20. Prayerful Reflection on Vocation • Seeing Gifts Activity • Scripture: 1 Cor 12: 1-11(Spiritual Gifts)

  21. Prayerful Reflection on Vocation • Centering Experience

  22. Prayerful Reflection on Vocation • Scriptural Summary (Isaiah reading)

  23. Fostering Church Vocations • As educators, parents, grandparents, and ministers we are called to foster vocations within the Church, including the call to priesthood and religious life.

  24. Fostering Church Vocations • Talk freely about the presence of God in the joys and sorrows of your lives to:- students- children- grandchildren- neighbors- young adults in the parish- others

  25. Fostering Church Vocations • Remind others that they are loved by God and have been given gifts to be the best that they can be and to serve the community.

  26. Fostering Church Vocations • Speak positively about priests and Religious of your parish and when occasions arise, get to know them personally.

  27. Fostering Church Vocations • Encourage young people to consider priesthood and religious life as possible life choices. • Pray for all vocations and those discerning their vocation in life.

  28. Vocations: Gift to the Church • All vocations are a GIFT to the church. • We are called to daily say, “Yes!” to God’s call to love and serve in our own unique way according to our gifts.

  29. Here I am Lord!Speak, your servant is listening…Be it done unto me according to your word…

  30. Vocation Prayer Lord Jesus, Teach me. Lead me. Guide me. Renew in me my commitment to respond to your call. Show me the best way for me to love and follow you in service of others. Amen.

  31. Blessing RitualandSending Forth

  32. Personal Vocation Everyone has one!

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