Vocation-Liturgy link

Mary Sharon Moore, a Catholic author and founder of Awakening Vocations, says that "Liturgy and Vocation cannot be separated!" Here is her inspirational article on the link between Vocation and Liturgy. I highlight a brief paragraph from her article that I believe summarizes her thoughts well:

"Liturgy is the starting point of Christian vocational life, which is a life of love, expressed in particular ways according to your gifting and God's desiring. Christian vocational life is a life of self-giving, and draws its strength and purpose from your dying to self and receiving the new life in Christ which lies at the core of each of the sacraments. The vocational point of liturgy is to live this 'dying to self and receiving new life in Christ" in every dimension of your life."

Reprinted with permission.

It's a grace to take an opportunity to look back at one's life and see how the Holy Spirit continues to work in many ways in our dying to self and rising to new life in Christ. As a Jesuit priest and retreat leader once told me (referring to the Harry Potter movies) during an Ignatian Retreat I made a few years ago, "a part of you must die in order that the true self may rise."

In addition to reading my own vocation story, I invite you to look at God's hand in your own life and see where He is calling you towards a life of love...towards new life.