religious vocation
Divine life commitment
A religious vocation is a calling to devote one's life to religious service—typically as a priest, nun, monk, or minister.
The term implies divine summons rather than mere career choice: She felt a religious vocation from an early age.
Someone discerning a vocation is determining whether they're truly called to religious life.
- chaplaincyReligious guidance service
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- missionary workReligious conversion efforts abroad
- inner voiceUnspoken mental dialogue
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
priesthood · seminary · altar server · prayer · convent · monkhood · devotion · calling · answering the call · spiritual awakening · fasting · cloister · retreat house · vows · deaconship · man of the cloth · asceticism · pastoral care
- ministrypreaching, pastoral care, teaching, chaplaincy, youth ministry
- Canadian CatholicismJesuits, Catholic parishes, separate schools, parish priests, archdioceses
- work spiritualitycalling, divine calling, sacred work, meaningful work, tentmaking
- Religious Schoolsreligious education, Catholic school, parish school, Christian school, parochial school
- holinesssanctification, holiness, purity, sacredness, sanctity
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convent
religious vocationday job
Primary paid employment
career choice · wage labor · working for a living · breadwinning · job
religious vocationsecular life
Non-spiritual way of living
married life · family life · worldliness · domestic life · materialism