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ABSTRACT

A comprehensive understanding of progress occurs during the mature years of a person


who has a great belief in the great works of spirituality. Christian people may be involved in
exploring their spirituality and finding what God is calling them to do, their vocation, and
identity development with a higher impact on their lives as they commemorate with those proofs
that they have experienced. Personality development and greater understanding of Christian
vocation were described; gained identity situations were positively associated with a greater
understanding of Christian vocation. Diffused statuses were related because of different beliefs
with understanding Christian vocation this leads to a widespread of faith and the pureness of one
who believes. Greater spiritual vitality and commitment and secure spiritual attachment were
related to a greater understanding of vocation. A preoccupied spiritual attachment was proven to
have an understanding vocation. Christianity is profoundly seen in people’s devotion on a certain
faith which will suddenly leads to a lot of great things, as a whole human person this depicts
ways to prove how faithful a person in his chosen religion whatever God he/she is worshipping.
The concept of “vocation” is one that is constantly evolving inside the community are using the
term” vocation” to prompt discussion of meaning, purpose, and calling in life. Identifying what
great purpose of living in this world creates a better vision and understanding why vocation is
related to the church, while thinking deep what is really one’s purpose and the calling of that
certain place they need to establish while the faith is still there getting stronger in everyday of
each person’s life. Upon living into this difficult world, we hardly seek for grounded support,
that’s when catechism is seen in the picture. Within the moral complexity of the world, no
practice better orients our reflection toward God's truth and God's love than the Church's ancient
practice of catechesis or formal preparation of new followers in faithfulness. Catechesis converts
new believers from listeners into discoverers. Catechism is simply instruction in the fundamental
doctrines of the Christian faith. Instead of substituting or replacing the role of the Bible in
Christian education, catechism ideally helps as the basis for it. The application of catechism, as
properly understood, is the Christian equivalent of resembling at the box top of a jig-saw puzzle
before one starts to put all of those hundreds of tiny pieces together. It is essential to look at the
big picture and have it clearly in mind to not bog down in details or get endlessly diverted by
some unimportant or irrelevant issue. The theological classifications given to us through
catechism help us make sense of the myriad of features found in the Scriptures themselves.
Catechism attends as a guide to better understanding Scripture. That being noted. However, we
need to remind ourselves that Protestants have always argued that creeds, confessions, and
catechisms are authorized only so far as they faithfully reflect the pedagogy of Holy Scripture.
This means that the use of catechisms, which correctly review biblical teaching, does not negate
or remove the role of Holy Scripture. Instead, these same creeds, confessions, and catechisms.

INTRODUCTION

As the bible verse from the book of 2 Thessalonians 1:11 says that “To this end we
always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every
resolve for good and every work of faith by his power”, and the bible verse from the book of
John 15:16 also says that “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you
should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in
my name, he may give it to you”. Vocation is not our own choice but is our destiny which God’s
prior point that we need to nurture, its our choice if we could make it enriching or not. But
defining vocation as the one’s response to a call from beyond oneself to use one’s strengths and
gifts to make the world a better place through service, creativity, and leadership. We now may
get the idea that every people get a call from God to do a certain job this can also be being called
into Christianity by God, it may not be ta proper calling that we need to receive but is a strong
feeling like a bolt of lightning that you are created by God and its your duty that calls.
Discipleship is another distinctive term used by Christians when following the works and life
Jesus, being compassionate to others, giving hope and loving them without anything in return
while serving them is a concrete application of discipleship like being a doctor, nurse, teacher
and soldier.

A Christian that urges to do in order to fulfill his dreams will serve God in his chosen
field of vocation because religion does not need to constrain the achievement of one’s person to
what he needs to fulfill in order to have that vocation and grab that opportunity that has come in
their way no matter what. In order to embark on that acquired vocation, the general thought of
giving and sharing the blessings He gave to You as a whole person may become a different
sentiment when you serve others, like serving him in a lot greater purpose. In short, you may be
a blessing as a return of the blessing that he has given you.

Catechism is important to our chosen vocation which serves us to be believing in a


written doctrine, creating our own path in our chosen way of life is said to be needed guidance
for you as a person is a believer. Catechism should ideally have an emphasis. The first of these
emphases’ centers around the home. If Christian men are wondering about what their primary
role should be as a father, in terms of their obligation to be priests of their own homes,
suggesting that the practice of catechism occupy a significant role. The second emphasis of
catechism centers on the role of the local church. Here the role of the pastor and elders and the
goal of the other senior elder, which educate you on the purpose of life's different challenges,
should be to further and support those efforts at catechism that have begun in the home. Parents
should not assume that the church's role is to supply the catechetical instruction as parents make
little or no effort to provide at home and educate them.

This important point is significant to every human that has been in their journey in
choosing their calling, its their belief to be I that field because for believing in themselves and
falter embarks teachings and learning because of life experiences. The deep understanding for
vocation, catechism and the values we learned as a human being creates a steadfast faith in
ourselves and to the man up.

Our primordial role is not just been written in the sacred scriptures but it is the faith that
leads us to god as he works himself during his time and create a very impressive time of his life.
As our savior our hope that would incarcerate our belief may known as we discover more for
ourselves in pursuing our dream a we step one a time on those ladders. Is our effective way of
reaching out to god.
MAIN SECTIONS

I. God is calling You

When you are called, you need to follow, vocation does not come from willfulness. It
comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite
apart from what I would like it to be about---or my life will never represent anything real in the
world, no matter how earnest my intentions. As further we goes, we all noted that the concept of
Christian vocation, however, extends far beyond career or occupation to virtually every domain
of one's life. Christians receive a prevalent calling to know and love God and to love and serve
others. A Christian's distinct calling refers to his or her defining mission or mission in life.
Finally, an urgent calling refers to one's critical duties and responsibilities-those things placed
before an individual each day by God. Identifying what is our calling and its importance in our
life and the presence of god into our decision and life journey. Its life layman in human created
knowledge and experience it may be recognized or discerned. The Catechism of the Catholic
Church was intended primarily to explain the teachings of the Catholic faith. It is an excellent
reference for the Catholic faithful. It is also an excellent resource for non-Catholics interested in
learning what the Church teaches. Many disputes about the Church’s teachings on controversial
issues can be resolved by looking at what the Catechism says about Catholic beliefs.

Being spiritually prepared is one of the provocativeness of being God’s shepherd, our
faith could lead us to holiness our vocation became known with occupation or career with no
other spiritual requirements or connections. Also, the vocation of the Reformers, Puritans, and
other religious persons and enthusiasts failed to address the changes, inequalities, and alienation
resulting from industrialization. Consequently, the Church became estranged mainly from
working-class personalities. Socialism spoke more instantly to their eagerness and distress.
Besides, Catholic theologians have only recently begun to express an interest in developments.
At the same time, many people appear to elevate still the status of ordained pastoral ministry and
missionary service above other vocations. We need to discover a path that will guide us between
the twin heresies of divorcing faith from work and idolizing work. We must rediscover our faith
that our primary vocation is the call to follow Jesus.

Nevertheless, we must also indicate that this call encompasses the whole of our lives,
including our everyday work. It needs to adequately combine both the personal and social
dimensions of the gospel and sustain a lively everyday spirituality. We need to see how our work
connects to the creating, sustaining, and remodeling work of God. This will not be a quietist
view of Christian vocation that capitulates to the status quo but will contest corruption and
exploitation and work to name and resist evil and transform dire circumstances. We must also
maintain a broad definition of work that encompasses paid employment and domestic work, and
voluntary work. In this way, we can seek to live a more comprehensive yet also more
harmonious discipleship through the whole of our lives. The balance will be different for various
people and varied at distinct stages in our lives. Therefore, we need a view of our vocation,
which includes some constant elements but is also flexible enough to help us make sense of lives
in which the nature and mix of work that we do are regularly changing. Employment remains an
essential part of life through which we express our Christian discipleship.

Notwithstanding, it is only one part of a multi-faceted life of discipleship. Unemployed people,


homemakers, and voluntary workers have a vocation too! Our vocation as Christians does not
depend on paid employment, but it must be expressed through our employment. We also need to
understand that living out our vocation was never meant to be a solitary task. We need the
encouragement of committed companions and the community of faith to assist us.

II. The Catechism People

Disciples young and old are called by name to go into the vineyard. In responding to this
call, adults have the greatest responsibilities and the capacity to live the Christian message in its
fully developed form. Their formation in faith is essential for the Church to carry out its mandate
to proclaim the Good News of Jesus to the world. Effective adult formation is necessary to
“equip the holy ones for the work of ministry

Catechism can also help our spiritual life because it is a clear, systematic, and comprehensive
presentation of the essentials of the Christian faith. By meditating on the teachings of the
Church, we can grow closer to God the Church proclaims. Quite early on, the name catechesis
was given to the totality of the Church's efforts to make disciples, to help men believe that Jesus
is the Son of God so that believing they might have life in his name, and to educate and instruct
them in this life, thus building up the body of Christ.
"Catechesis is an education in the faith of children, young people, and adults which includes
especially the teaching of Christian doctrine imparted, generally speaking, organically and
systematically, to initiate the hearers into the fullness of Christian life.

While not being formally identified with them, catechesis is built on a certain number of
elements of the Church's pastoral mission: a catechetical aspect that prepares for catechesis or
springs from it. They are the initial proclamation of the Gospel or missionary preaching to arouse
faith; examination of the reasons for belief; experience of Christian living; a celebration of the
sacraments; integration into the ecclesial community; and apostolic and missionary witness.

Catechesis is intimately bound up with the whole of the Church's life. Not only her geographical
extension and numerical increase but even more her inner growth and correspondence with God's
plan depend essentially on catechesis. A catechism transforms new believers from listeners into
discoverers. Answering its questions, we discover what and whose we are. We discover that God
calls us into a community of disciples, who together join the drama of God’s redeeming action.
To be bounded and inspired in being faithful to that vocation he is choosing for you your
boundless charisma and truthfulness should prevail. Being the son of god insinuates the presence
of being devoted and dedicated to what are we indeed to do in order to be more righteous and
greater at many times. Catechism may hold on people’s desire by strengthening the wholeness of
embarking love from what we need to do and love to do, which things might not be so much with
struggles on the way but the togetherness in Christian religious life is a big impact to our live.
We are a common people in our community but being common shared an effective channel in
reaching out for others especially the Lord.

We must do precisely what is demanded in our circumstances to lessen the gap between
the next world and its reflected prefigurate in this the current effort at formulating a theology of
work is not merely an attempt to define the place of work and human progress in Christian life
during an age in which improvement of the human milieu is both goal and achievements: it is
also an attempt to define the place of Christianity in the most distinctive phase of the twentieth-
century life.

The repercussions of industrialization have not been given sufficient attention.


Industrialization brought with it fundamental changes in the relationship between work, family,
and local community, in the division of labor between the sexes, in the priority given to
employment, in the attitudes to time, leisure, material advancement, and the very definition of
work. These are different issues to those typically highlighted by Marxist analysis, focusing on
the new power relationships in the workplace and the new relationship between worker and
machine. Assertions with that it is these ‘forgotten’ changes brought about by industrialization
have exerted the most influence on modern society and cry out for a Christian response. Smith
concludes that the main casualty in this process has been the proper consideration of women’s
work. The influence of Marxism has been extensive. The motif of alienation, in particular, has
found fertile soil among most recent writers. Some would argue that the influence of Marxism
has been excessive, especially in the doctrine of co-creation. Nevertheless, the magnitude and
direction of the influence of Marx vary from theologian to theologian. the knowledge given to us
emancipate and appropriates that it is the biblical authority that holds sway.

We prevalently initiate those belief from the old times that makes us understand the
differect yet high impact of glorious and passionate way of the emphasized facts that entails
within our spiritual belief and in our working status systematically. Those truths that made us
more concrete on what is our want initiates a bigger impact on our daily living as a worker of
god.

III. Community and the Spirituality of the World

God himself is a great worker, he have done a lot of work in his entire life, just like the
community we lived in. our community is making a lot of work too which develops a very
convenient way of living our life, just like god, when he had to work to save humanity, he
sacrificed his life. Spirituality is about discovering and responding to the presence and purposes
of God in every context, every task, every relationship and every moment of every day. A
spiritually healthy being is more dedicated and devoted to the calling that has god assigned us, is
not the prowess we claimed but the solemn work we have done to ourself and the community.

Today's evangelical community's dominant models of spirituality depend heavily upon 'monastic'
practices of withdrawal and disengagement. Consequently, they do little to enable the Christian
to connect the presence of God with the realities and contexts of daily life, especially life in the
marketplace. Words and images that commonly dominate this spiritual landscape include
withdrawal, relinquishment, silence, solitude, meditation, serenity, and stillness. Words and
images dominating life in the marketplace are almost the antitheses of these. Tragically, this sets
up an unfortunate dichotomy between the so-called 'spiritual' realm and the world of work.
Religion has been recognized to mold humanity into a near-perfect society devoid of ill-
mannered individuals, who were always wayward and tended to deviate from the decorum that
society expected everyone to subscribe to.

Therefore, a religious community is a societal unit that subscribes to doctrines set out by
the religion that it holds dear with unfaltering faith, which defines the moral code of demeanor
that its followers are expected to adhere to. Such a community blends with followers of other
religious communities

Some members of a religious community may deem it fit to live a life of isolation. They
devote their lives to prayer and service to the community, unlike ordinary members. The latter
choose to fulfill the bare minimum requirements that the community doctrines designate.

These may require daily or weekly visits to the places of worship, which can either be
synagogues, mosques, or churches, depending on the religion. Religion is taken very menacingly
in specific communities. It has led to the configuration of theocratic states with single religions
acknowledged by the states, like Saudi Arabia and most countries within the Arab Emirates.

For the most part, vindictive measures are usually taken against people who flout the
commandments prescribed by the state concerning conduct in some of these states to ensure that
everyone in the country is a virtuous person. On the flip side, within the Christianity circles, the
Vatican is an example of a theocratic state that is catholic, with the pope flanked by his cardinals
as the rulers.

With many break- away factions, a lot of barbs have been thrown at the Catholic Church
on its tough stand of celibacy, despite the cases of child molestation that have cast aspersions on
the need for this policy. Formation of the secret societies within the Catholic domain, especially
in Africa, that ordain priests who are allowed to marry have also been proliferating.

Our morality relies on how we live our life in spite of challenges, moralism is not the
unrealistic dream of the idealist, nor is it the means of fulfilling the everyday needs of the
materialist. Instead, it provides people with the possibility of merging their mundane objectivity
into supramundane Cognition. The spirit of morality will have to be instilled in human beings
when they first start to learn the lessons of interaction. By interaction, I mean social interaction.
Viewed from this perspective, the mind of a child is the best receptacle for morality. However,
who will impart moral training or education? Parents find fault with teachers, and teachers, in
turn, argue that they cannot give personal attention to an individual child in a crowd of two or
three hundred children. Although most parents are either uneducated or semi-educated and while
it is not unreasonable to expect that teachers will be well-educated, it is not proper to place the
sole responsibility for children’s moral education on the shoulders of their teachers. Increasing
the number of teachers in educational institutions may partially solve moral education, but the
key to the solution lies within the parents themselves. In cases where the parents are unfit to
shoulder this responsibility, the teachers and well-wishers of society will have to come forward
and demonstrate their greater sense of responsibility. Remember, humanity’s very existence is
based on morality; when morality leads human beings to the fullest expression of their finer
human qualities, then alone is its practical value fully realized. The concerted effort to bridge the
gap between the first expression of morality and establishment in universal humanism is called
“social progress.” Furthermore, the collective body of those engaged in the concerted effort to
conquer this gap, I call “society.” The church's future will be decided by how effectively the
people of God are equipped and supported to live out their faith in the world. Local churches
have a crucial role to play in equipping and supporting their members for this missionary
encounter. However, this vision of growing the kingdom of God in the world is more extensive
than just growing a local congregation. Our conviction that growing congregations alone is not a
big enough vision to facilitate effective ministry in the world. However, to change our focus to
pursue this larger vision towards an emphasis on weekday mission, beyond just Sunday
gathering, will require a significant change in our priorities, the allocation of our resources, and
the models of ministry that shape our practice.

As a group that includes several pastors, we recognize that the enormous pressures on
church leaders to produce significant Sunday events make it challenging to prioritize the
significance of weekday ministry. We do not wish to see this added as another set of
expectations on church leaders who are already feeling oppressed by too many expectations.
Instead, we see that what is needed is a change of expectations that is potentially freeing for both
leaders and church members if ministry is better shared and expanded to include the whole of our
life in the world and the church. We find ourselves excited by this vision but are still groping to
define clearly what this means and might involve. In humility, we offer the following
observations about the challenges to marketplace ministry and some suggestions of strategic
action in response.

CONCLUSION

We often say this terms and phrase, who am I? What is my purpose in life? Many of us
ask ourselves these questions. They help us not only get in touch with our inner selves, but help
us deal with the situations we face in our lives. At no time is the issue of addressing spiritual
concerns more important than at the end of life. When illness occurs, many people turn inward
and attempt to understand and deal with the crisis. They wonder, Why me? Why is this
happening? For seriously ill individuals and their loved ones, the search for meaning becomes
even more important. As death approaches and life slips away, many of us will strive to make
sense of both. Addressing spiritual concerns at the end of life can be as vital as medication and
comfort for the patient’s wellbeing. The needs in fulfilling what we want and want gods want
disseminate by the community we lived in its our way of storming for betterment and
discovering for more, and then struggles making us slow and poverty in this life makes us
anxious and preferably turned into something, we forgot how to be much more faithful in this
time. When spiritual emergence is very rapid and dramatic, it can become a crisis, or spiritual
emergency. People who are in such a crisis can be bombarded with inner experiences that
abruptly challenge their old beliefs and ways of existing. Their relationship with reality shifts
very rapidly. Suddenly they feel uncomfortable and it is difficult to meet the demands of
everyday life. They can be out of touch with the external reality. Physically they may experience
forceful energies and tremors. We need to focus on the vocation we need to fulfill in order to
serve others.

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