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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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This week's must-read is Simone Rizkallah's The Spiritual Life: A Personal Vocation. She highlights the difference between a state-in-life vocation and a personal vocation—something Mother Teresa described as a "call within a call."
"If [Mother Teresa] had reduced her vocation to her state in life as a Sister of Loreto, she might have missed her vocation to start the Missionaries of Charity."
Simone elaborates:
"One of the most common vocational problems I encounter is with women who are stay-at-home mothers. There is nothing more expressive of the genius of women than motherhood. And yet, I often hear phrases like 'I know being "just a mom" is important.' The insecurity is justifiable because the question 'who am I?' before God remains, even if the external factors are positively secure. The emphasis on personal vocation helps these mothers consider that their own unique feminine genius flows not from the objective fact of their motherhood, but from their subjective expression of it."
We each have name that only God knows: "He had a name inscribed that no one knows except himself." (Revelation 19:12)
That name, that calling, is our personal vocation. What is yours? - Meaghen Gonzalez, Editor
Image: Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854; in the Louvre, Paris.
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"The soldier of Christ is obligated to fight against sin and error." - Dietrich von Hildebrand
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| The Spiritual Life: A Personal Vocation |
| Simone Rizkallah, Catechetical Review |
| There is a lingering experience of anxiety which I believe is a particularly Christian one. It concerns the problem of vocation. |
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| If 2+2=4, Then God Exists |
| Dr. Christopher Kaczor, Word on Fire |
| Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Liebniz, and William Lane Craig provide famous reasons to believe that God exists. Less well known is a way proposed by the African intellectual Augustine. |
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| A Marian or a Feminist Church? |
| Casey Chalk, The Catholic Thing |
| The New Testament begins with a story about a humble young woman who willingly submits to the will of God when He calls her to a momentous vocation. |
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| 50,000 Rosaries Challenge |
| Word on Fire |
| Last year we prayed 64,000 Rosaries in the month of May. Will you help us do it again? |
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| 2024 Online Catholic Homeschool Conference |
| The Catholic Homeschool Conference |
| Are you struggling with where to start homeschooling? Are you a veteran looking to finish your student's high school career? This conference is for you! |
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| Connected To The Vine |
| Blessed Is She |
| The longing to live a life of purpose is written on the human heart. |
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