God Calling: Vocation Vibes

Episode 34 - Searching Hearts: College Students Discern Their Call

Recorded onsite at the University of Connecticut, this discussion features students candidly sharing about their vocational discernment journeys. Whether feeling drawn to the priesthood or religious life, to the single life, or to living in a marriage where the couple is an icon, a “window to heaven”—in the discernment of all of these vocations, a relationship with Jesus Christ is experienced by the students as being foundational. They recount that Mass and Scripture, Eucharistic adoration, the sacrament of Reconciliation, and the ministry of the FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) missionaries have all been instrumental in the spiritual and human growth that is helping to illuminate their vocational path.
As for discovering the call? One of the students offers this advice: “Learn to love Christ and He’ll lead you where you need to go.”
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Episode 32 - Divine Providence: Seeking Bread for God's Poor

A YOUNG BUSINESSWOMAN FROM THE PHILIPPINES WORKING HER WAY UP THE CORPORATE LADDER IN HONG KONG DISCOVERS HER VOCATION TO LIVE IN GREAT SIMPLICITY AND TRUE FREEDOM AS A LITTLE SISTER OF THE POOR. Sr. Marie Cecilia finds joy in being “the begging Sister” in service of the elderly who are in need and relates some of the many spiritual and material blessings that flow from this particular aspect of the Little Sisters’ apostolate. Sr. Carolyn comments on how the younger Little Sisters—having come from the abundance that society offers—seem to be intuitively drawn to simplicity of life. Like their senior Sisters, they embrace the begging with humble joy--and they carry it out so well!
St. Joseph is introduced as the patron and provider of the Little Sisters of the Poor, the mediary through whom God blesses their confidence in His Divine Providence.
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Episode 31 - Quiet, Please! Grace at Work

JESUS IS NOT A MATADOR: “My will is over here…no, it’s over here.” He does not trick us! In the peace and quiet of time spent with him, he reveals to us how much he loves us, and through the deepening relationship that we share with him he reveals his awesome plan for our lives.
Emily Savage of Fiat Ministries speaks of the graces that she sees at work during the quiet stillness of the retreats that Fiat organizes for discerning young women. Sr. Bernadette Rose of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who is among the many different religious Sisters who have helped with the retreats, speaks to the power of witness—so clearly evidenced when the young women encounter religious Sisters and are deeply inspired as they discover the radiant beauty of the vocation of a bride of Christ.
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Episode #23 - Vocations on the College Campus

CAN YOU IMAGINE 182 PRIESTLY AND RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS COMING FROM A SINGLE COLLEGE CAMPUS??? To what might we attribute this amazing work of the Holy Spirit? Check it out as Dani, Jenny, and David from the Catholic campus ministry and FOCUS team at Texas A&M University weigh in with their thoughts on this miracle of grace. Be sure not to miss these truly encouraging insights for young men and women who are in a season of vocational discernment and for those who serve them!
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