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The phrase "a vocation to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a calling or strong inclination towards a particular profession or occupation.
Example: "She felt a vocation to teach, believing it was her purpose in life."
Alternatives: "a calling to" or "a passion for".
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"Some of us have a vocation to love God," he once prayed.
"Some of us only have a vocation to love a human being.
He was there because he had a vocation to rescue parents from fatal purchasing decisions.
"Some people are born with a vocation to kill," he said.
"French culture has a vocation to be universal and by becoming universal, it erases differences," Ms. Cohen-Solal, 53, said.
Stowe said of the book that she had a "vocation to preach on paper," just as the men in her family preached in pulpits.
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Teaching is a vocation, a calling to human service, whose members should aid colleagues under pressure.
It's almost like a priesthood vocation to a degree".
I struggle to be faithful to a vocation handed to me against my will, in many ways.
Gould makes a persuasive case that New Labour was a sincere vocation to reunite a party with voters so as better to represent them in government.
He also ascribed the move to irritation with life behind a desk when confined to Whitehall; and to the siren call of a new vocation, to be a writer.
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