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The document discusses the meaning of a vocation. It states that while a vocation is literally a "call," a vocation from God is not simple. It also notes that the primary call from God is to holiness, and that while vocations are often thought of as what one does in life, the first call is to be.

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The document discusses the meaning of a vocation. It states that while a vocation is literally a "call," a vocation from God is not simple. It also notes that the primary call from God is to holiness, and that while vocations are often thought of as what one does in life, the first call is to be.

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If you are looking for a simple definition of a vocation, the literal meaning of the word is a "call.

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But a vocation is more than an ordinary call. A vocation is a call from God, and anyone who has felt God's
call knows that the process is anything but simple. While most people think of a vocation as what they are
called to do in life, it is important to understand that the first and most important call from God is a call to
be - the universal call to holiness.

Best Answer: 1. The priesthood. Besides the common priesthood that all the baptized possess, there is
also the ordained priesthood. Clerics are those who are deacons, priests, and bishops.
2. Consecrated life. Those in consecrated life may be men or women. They are religious, sisters, monks,
consecrated persons in secular institutes, societies of apostolic life, canonical hermits, consecrated
virgins (women only), and consecrated widows (Eastern Churches only).
3. Married life. Those who are called to marriage enter a union patterned after the marriage of Christ and
His Church. The sacrament of matrimony gives the strength for the man and woman united by the lifelong
bond to be good followers of the Lord.

The Four Main Vocations


The Catholic Church recognizes four main vocations: Priesthood, Religious Life, Marriage and
Single Life. God calls everyone to follow Him. Here is a brief outline of the four vocations:
Priesthood

A Catholic priest is a male ordained minister of the Church. Because they give their lives in
total service to the Church, priests embrace the gift of celibacy and commit to a life of
prayer. They proclaim the Good News, teach the Catholic faith, minister the Sacraments,
work to build up their local faith community and lead their faith community in worship. Most
priests will minister in a parish setting, while others may serve as chaplains to universities,
hospitals, prisons, the armed forces and other industries.
Religious Life
A religious priest, brother or sister (nun) commits his or her life to sharing in the life and
mission of their religious community. Religious priests, brothers and sisters embrace the call
to poverty, chastity and obedience, and nurture their call through a life of celibacy, faith,
prayer and service. Religious priests, brothers and sisters serve in areas such as education,
health care, parish, youth ministry, aged care, spirituality, pastoral ministry, social work,
amongst the poor and as a contemplative, and many will serve as missionaries in other
cultures. Depending on the religious order, they may dress in 'normal' clothes or in a habit.
Marriage

A married person lives a vow of faithful love to a spouse through the sacrament of marriage.
Husbands and wives share a self-giving, love-giving and life-giving relationship with their
spouse, and are committed to helping their spouse grow to human and Christian maturity.
They seek to form a family home, and are together the first teachers of their children in
Christian faith and values. Married people may serve in their parish community or in the
Church in a number of different ways.
Single Life
A person called to single life comes to believe that remaining single is the true and right way
to faithfully live his or her baptismal call. Single men and women embrace the gift of
celibacy while living alone, with a family or with others who are single. They are able to
devote time and energy in service of others, and may serve in their parish community or in
the Church in a number of different ways.
In each vocation, the person lives a life of faith and prayer to continually grow in relationship
with God. The Church recognizes that each vocation is equal in the sense that no vocation is
better or less than any other. However, because God calls you to a particular vocation whether marriage, priesthood, religious life or single life - that vocation is the best one for
you, and the one that will 'fit' you best and make you the most happy.

Understanding our sexuality is about the sexual feelings and attractions we feel towards other
people, not about who we have sex with. There are different types of sexuality, and it can take
time to figure out what fits right with you.

Love and Human Sexuality


10. Man is called to love and to self-giving in the unity of body and spirit. Femininity
and masculinity are complementary gifts, through which human sexuality is an
integrating part of the concrete capacity for love which God has inscribed in man
and woman. "Sexuality is a fundamental component of personality, one of its modes
of being, of manifestation, of communicating with others, of feeling, of expressing
and of living human love". This capacity for love as self-giving is thus "incarnated" in
the nuptial meaning of the body, which bears the imprint of the person's masculinity
and femininity. "The human body, with its sex, and its masculinity and femininity,
seen in the very mystery of creation, is not only a source of fruitfulness and
procreation, as in the whole natural order, but includes right ?from the beginning'
the ?nuptial' attribute, that is, the capacity of expressing love: that love precisely in
which the man-person becomes a gift and by means of this gift fulfils the very
meaning of his being and existence". Every form of love will always bear this
masculine and feminine character.

11. Human sexuality is thus a good, part of that created gift which God saw as being
"very good", when he created the human person in his image and likeness, and
"male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27). Insofar as it is a way of relating
and being open to others, sexuality has love as its intrinsic end, more precisely, love
as donation and acceptance, love as giving and receiving. The relationship between
a man and a woman is essentially a relationship of love: "Sexuality, oriented,
elevated and integrated by love acquires truly human quality". When such love
exists in marriage, self-giving expresses, through the body, the complementarity
and totality of the gift. Married love thus becomes a power which enriches persons
and makes them grow and, at the same time, it contributes to building up the
civilization of love. But when the sense and meaning of gift is lacking in sexuality, a
"civilization of things and not of persons" takes over, "a civilization in which persons
are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use,
woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents...".

Full Definition of SEX


1
: either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished
respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures
2
: the sum of the structural, functional, and behavioral characteristics of organisms that are involved
in reproduction marked by the union of gametes and that distinguish males and females
3
a : sexually motivated phenomena or behavior

not only sinful outside of marriage, but anything besides sex in the natural manner which leaves open the
conception of a child between a husband and wife, is a mortal sin,
sins of the flesh are all mortal, unless of course one has not had full consent to their sin.

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