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    Vocations Explained Matrimony, Virginity, The Religious State and The Priesthood
    Vocations Explained Matrimony, Virginity, The Religious State and The Priesthood
    Vocations Explained Matrimony, Virginity, The Religious State and The Priesthood
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      Vocations Explained Matrimony, Virginity, The Religious State and The Priesthood - Archive Classics

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      Title: Vocations Explained

      Matrimony, Virginity, The Religious State and The Priesthood

      Author: Anonymous

      Other: Cardinal James Gibbons

      Cardinal Francesco Satolli

      Thos L Kinkead

      Archbishop Michael Augustine

      Release Date: February 17, 2010 [EBook #31311]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOCATIONS EXPLAINED ***

      Produced by Michael Gray

      VOCATIONS EXPLAINED

      MATRIMONY, VIRGINITY,

      THE RELIGIOUS STATE, AND THE

      PRIESTHOOD.

      BY A

      VINCENTIAN FATHER.

      AN ABRIDGMENT OF

      QUESTIONS ON VOCATIONS

      APPROVED BY

      CARDINAL GIBBONS AND CARDINAL SATOLLI.

      Published with the permission of the Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission.

      NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO:

      BENZINGER BROTHERS,

      Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.

      Vocations Explained

      is a compendium of Questions on Vocations, a catechism approved by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons; His Eminence Cardinal Satolli; by five Archbishops and twenty-two Bishops; also by numerous priests and religious Brothers and Sisters.

      Nihil Obatat

      THOS. L. KINKEAD,

      Censor Librorum.

      Imprimatur

      MICHAEL AUGUSTINE,

      Archbishop of New York.

      NEW YORK, March 2, 1897.

      COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY BENZIGER BROTHERS.

      CONTENTS.

      VOCATIONS EXPLAINED.

      CHAPTER I.

      DEFINITION.—EVERY PERSON HAS SOME SPECIAL VOCATION.

      Q. What is a vocation?

      A. A call from God to some state of life.

      Q. Which are the principal states of life?

      A. Matrimony, virginity, the religious state, and the priesthood.

      Q. Has every person a vocation?

      A. Yes; God gives a special vocation to each person.

      Q. How is this doctrine proved?

      A. St. Paul says: "Every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that. . . . As the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one, so let him walk." [*]

      [*] The references are given in the larger catechism entitled Questions on Vocations.

      Q. Is it not beneath God's notice to give a particular vocation to each person?

      A. Not at all; for even the birds of the air are objects of the providence of God: "Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows."

      Q. What do Father Faber and St. Alphonsus say on this subject?

      A. Father Faber says: Every man has a distinct vocation. St. Alphonsus says: "We must embrace that state to which God calls us."

      Q. What does St. Augustine teach concerning special vocations?

      A. St. Augustine says: "He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it."

      CHAPTER II.

      NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING A VOCATION.

      Q. Are we obliged to follow the vocation which God gives us?

      A. Yes; if we should wilfully neglect to follow our vocation we would be in danger of losing our souls.

      Q. Why so?

      A. Because God attaches to our vocation special graces to help us to resist temptations and to discharge our duties properly. Hence, if we neglect God's call, we lose also His special graces; we then easily fall into temptation, and thus we are more liable to lose our souls.

      Q. Can you quote reliable authority for this doctrine?

      A.

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