The phrase "a special vocation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a unique or significant calling or profession that someone feels strongly about.
Example: "She has always felt that teaching is a special vocation, one that requires passion and dedication."
Alternatives: "a unique calling" or "a distinct profession".
Instead of succumbing to anguish, however, she came to view it as the sign of a special vocation, and it became the basis of an unprecedented creativity.
I'm not a declinist, and I do think America and Americans will always have a special vocation for liberty, but the century ahead is not American.
Flann O'Brien, born 100 years ago on 5 October, had a proper job and took his family responsibilities seriously – though as Anthony Cronin points out in his biography No Laughing Matter, in the end he was destroyed by them, "by a too ready acceptance of the necessity of emulating the life pattern of the majority who do not have a special vocation".
French political life has long gravitated around a " Republican model" marked by an unmediated relationship between the citizen and the state, socialization into French values through secular public education, a special vocation for France on the international stage, and an activist state.
"But it could be argued," his biographer Anthony Cronin writes, "that in [O'Brien's] case, he was, in time, destroyed by its opposite, by a too ready acceptance of the necessity of emulating the life pattern of the majority who do not have a special vocation and are not burdened by the claims of art".
"Jerusalem is a unique city, sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, where the Holy Places for the respective religions are venerated, and it has a special vocation to peace," he said.
To that extent the Republic presents a paradox: if it is widely considered the first major work of political philosophy,[8] it is nevertheless a work in which there is no special content to political knowledge nor any special vocation for politics.
But a new study suggests that finding one's vocation, or a special calling to do a certain occupation, will always be an invaluable way to motivate yourself to overcome academic and career challenges.
There simply weren't enough white-collar jobs to go around, but "if education could be regarded not as a step ladder to a few special vocations, but as the key to the treasure house of life, we should not even have to consider the fatal proposal that higher education be confined to a small and selected class," a decision that would mark the "failure of the American dream" of universal education.
According to the Truffle Committee of Perigord truffle growers know little about growing them, except that if they do grow at all they grow under pubescent (or hairy) oaks - though they won't do it even there except maybe under ten trees that have a "special truffle vocation", out of a hundred saplings that the farmer may have planted, in clay above fissured limestone.
It infuriated him, their overlong talk and circuitous proverbs, their never getting to the point, but he was determined to excel here; it was the reason he had joined the Holy Ghost congregation, whose special vocation was the redemption of black heathens.
