Vocation chapter 2

Name at least three benefits of a single vocation.

1) Can devote themselves to their career 2) Greater opportunity for silence and solitude 3) Time to develop talents 4) Freedom to have relationships with others (single, married, ordained, etc.)

What are three steps of discernment in the Ignatian model (see p. 52)?

1) Dream and Imagine 2) Gather Information 3) Pray over the Options

Name the six practical things you can do now to prepare for a possible vocation to marriage. p. 60

1) Respect and honor parents, family, opposite sex 2) Learn how to listen and make compromises 3) Practice commitment in job, team, family, friends 4) Practice chastity 5) Love others; including your enemies

What are the three steps to Centering prayer?

1) find a quiet place 2) select a special word or phrase and repeat over & over 3) thank the Father for his presence

What are the two main goals of marriage? p. 60

1) furthering human race 2) contributing to eternal destiny of husband, wife and children

Name two challenges of living a vocation to single life

1) loneliness 2) living a chaste life in a society where promiscuity is promoted

St. Claude de la Columbiere shared three things we should pray for God's will in our lives. What are they?

1) to obtain what we want 2) to be delivered from evil 3) to accept all of God's gifts as blessings

God said to Solomon in the Old Testament, "______ something of me and I will _____ it _____ you. p. 45

Ask, give it to you

Following God's will for our lives brings us ________ and _________. P. 45

Blessings, holiness

The most common characteristic of religious life is belonging to a _________________. p. 57

Community

Women who live a life of perpetual virginity, but remain lay women and support themselves. They are also consecrated by a local bishop.

Consecrated virgins

Religious women typically live in these. p. 57

Convents, or homes

A process of prayer that helps us make good choices in line with God's will.

Discernment

This is the concept that refers to God's interest and action in guiding creation to perfection. Divine __________. p. 44

Providence

Religious men often live where? p. 57

Rectories, monasteries, or sometimes just homes

Single lay people can become members of _____________ institutes, which are people who profess evangelical counsels, but do not live in community or take permanent vows.

Secular institutes

Men who attend a seminary or school focusing on theology in training and formation for the life of a priest are called _________.

Seminarians

In St. Ignatius' discernment process, what two forces did he feel were both at work in him? p. 50

Spirit of God Spirit of evil

This saint said "for my part I know no other perfection than loving God with all one's heart." p. 46

St. Francis DeSales

Who are the 'ministers' of the Sacrament of marriage?

The couple themselves

During Ignatius' discernment, how did he recognize when he was hearing the Spirit of God? p. 50

When his thoughts/ideas led him to peace

The fulfillment of one's vocation leads to beatitude, or eternal _________.

happiness

"Finding a calling" is much different than finding what?

Finding a 'profession'

Religious communities often mirror the lifestyle and purpose of their ____________. p. 57

Founder

God's gift that allow us to shape our own lives and direct ourselves to the goodness God intends. p. 46

Free will

When we cooperate with God we are exercising his great gift of ______ ______ p. 46

Free will

What is the 'eremitic life?' p 56

Life as a hermit; living alone and devoting self to deep intimacy with Christ through silence, prayer, and penance

The two Sacraments of service are ....

Holy Orders Marriage

What makes the vocation to the single life so different from the vocation to marriage or religious life?

It is not necessarily a 'permanent' vocation to which people have made vows. Sometimes people choose to be permanently single, while others 'pass through' this vocation.

The idea of belonging to a community for religious orders came from whom? p. 57

Jesus. His apostles lived in community with one another and traveled in community

The lives of religious surround praying the _________ of the Hours, or Divine _______ of the Church. p. 57

Liturgy, Office

Male religous 'contemplatives' are called .... p. 57

Monks

Women or me who have entered a religious order but have yet to take their final vows are called ___________

Novices

The more we seek God's plan for our lives, the more we advance toward ___________. p. 46

Perfection/holiness

What are the four steps in the formation process of someone in religious life? p. 59

Postulancy Novitiate Temporary professed Perpetual Vows

One of the most important aspects of the discernment process.

Prayer

What are the evangelical counsels?

Virtues needed to achieve perfection in the Christian life: poverty, chastity, and obedience.

A method of prayer that readies us to receive the gift of God's presence by quieting our spirit to allow God to rest within. p. 48-49

centering prayer

The goal of a discernment process is not to predict your ultimate vocation, but rather only to begin the _________, while allowing God to direct and guide you. p. 52

journey

All of the baptized faithful except those who receive Holy Orders are known as the ___________.

laity

A diocesan priest does not usually have to take the vow of __________.

poverty

The main difference between a diocesan priest and a religious priest is that diocesan priests are not members of ________ ________.

religious communities

Discerning your vocation is really a matter of finding out how you will __________ to God's love. p. 49

respond

Discernment calls us to look at all _____ of a decision, and consider many ____________.

sides; alternatives

The word vocations comes from a word meaning __ ____.

to call

The laity seeks the Kingdom of God by engaging in daily, ________ tasks and directing these to God's will. p. 41

worldly