What Stops Us from Asking God About Our Vocation?
- Fr. Pawel Szymanowski, CR
- Mark 9: 30 - 37
A Resurrectionist Vocation Minute for September 22, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
What stops us from asking God about our Vocation?
When Jesus spoke of His suffering, the disciples were confused and too afraid to ask Him more.
In a similar way, we may feel uncertain and hesitant when thinking about our own vocation. Yet, Jesus invites us to trust Him, even when the future seems unclear.
We should not be afraid to ask Him our questions, but we must also be willing to accept His answers with an open heart.
Our religious profession calls us to perfect our Christian life by following Christ so intimately that we live, die, and rise with Him. Christ destroyed sin by dying and empowers us to remove sin and selfishness from our lives by dying to ourselves through the generous acceptance of the renunciation implied in the perfect observance of our vows and in the many difficulties and disappointments of daily life, which constitute some of the crosses that Christ invites us to carry. In this way, we will empty and wholly deny ourselves, in order that Christ may dwell in us and act through us. Then we will be able to say with Saint Paul: “...the life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me” (Galatians 2:20).