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What is a vocation?
God's call to live a life of love--to bring love into the world in which you find yourself in a way that only you can
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What is the traditional Vocation give us a clearer framework, or guid, for?
HOW to live that life of love to which we are each called
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What are the Three Traditional Formal Vocations?
- religious life
- single life
- married life
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How do i know which one is right for me?
- --> Knowing what you should do with your life involves many things including:
- strong self-knowledgean openness to ideas that may be new or surprising
- the ability to be honest with yourself and with others
- trust that God has a plan and a purpose for your life that God wants you to discover
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Religious Life in the Catholic Church
There are two ways to live the religious lifestyle: __ and __
- "ordained" life for men, as priests and/or deacons
- "vowed religious" life for men and women, as nuns (sisters) or brothers
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What does the Religious Lifestyle involve? (4)
- 1) committing yourself to a specific religious community
- 2) making and respecting vows
- 3) "living in community"- living with others who have chosen to live a religious lifestyle
- 4) Committing your life to God and service to God's people
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What are the religious communities serving LF?
- SSJ
- IHM
- RSM (Sisters of Mercy)
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religious Community
-Each religious community has its own __ and __.
- These deifferences reflect the __ of the __.
- unique spirituality/ guidelines for service and prayer
- spirituality/ community's founder
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IHM Sisters
- Founder?
- Where?
- Mission?
- - Father Gillet, a redemptionist Missionary
- - in Michigan in 1845; began serving in PA in 1858
- - involves teaching and evangelization that is motivated by love, hope, and faithfulness to Jesus and Mary
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Sisters of Saint Joseph
- founder?
- fact?
- mission?
- -originally founded by 6 sisters in France in 1650. This original community was destroyed in the French Revolution
- - it was re-established by Sr. Saint John Foontbonne in 1807. They came to Philly in 1847
- - involves being "ready for any good work"
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Sisters of Mercy
- Founder?
- mission?
- -by Catherine McAuley in Ireland in 1831 The sisters came to serve in the US in 1843
- - involves serving all people in need, especially helping those who are sick, poor, and uneducated to overcome the obstacles that keep them from living their best livesq
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Vows
- aka: __
- Those who choose the religious lifestyle make __ vows: __
- evangelical counsels
- 3
- sacred, public,promises to follow examples of Jesus
- (poverty/ chastity/ obedience)
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Explain Vow #1.
Poverty: the promise to live simply, without attachment to material things, and to value and seek goodness and happiness that cannot be bought
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Explain vow #2.
- Chastity: is a commitment to a unique way of loving--one that does not focus on a particular ther person but is, rather, open to loving all of God's children as an extension of a focused, prayerful, love of God.
- - This vow includes a commitment of celibacy, which is the promise to never marry or engage in a sexual relationship with anyone
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Explain vow #3
Obedience: a promise to give oneself completely and unselfishly to the service of God and others
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"Living in Community"
What is it?
- Living in Community is living with other people who try as a group to be of service to God, others, and each other
- It involves (among many other things) the sharing of faith, time, prayer, meals, resources, responsibilities, and work
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Community to Service
In religious life, there are two kinds of service:
__ and__
- Active Service: involves direct contact with those being served
- Contemplative Service: involves full-time prayer for the needs nad intentions of the world
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What about "Ordained Life"
The Scarament of __ is received when?
- Holy Orders (Ordination)
- when men become deacons, priests, and bishops
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As a priest, ordained life is lived in one of two ways: __ and __.
as a diocesan priest or as a religious order priest
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Diocesan Priest
A diocesan priest works directly for a local bishop and diocese (such as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
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Religious Order Priest
Similar to the "vowed religious life" of sisters and brothers, religious order priests choose to belong to a particular community (such as the Jesuits, Franciscans, Vincentians)
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Religious Order priests do what similar to someone else?
they take the same three vows that vowed religious take
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Diocesan priests take what?
two vows: chastity/ obedience
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