The phrase "a vocation to the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a calling or profession that someone feels drawn to, often in a spiritual or meaningful context.
Example: "She felt a vocation to the teaching profession, believing it was her purpose in life."
Alternatives: "a calling to the" or "a profession in the".
He was still in his teens when he decided he had a vocation to the priesthood.
"Mothers seem to have that heightened desire to view their children as being good, being Christlike," Father Burns said, "and the ultimate way of being Christlike is to accept a vocation to the priesthood or religious life".
If the writer cannot give us that — if he cannot explain in sufficiently considered detail how he went from being an under-age East London thug, who took part in the gang-molestation of a girl and threw bricks at the windows of passing trains, to fervently declaring a vocation to the priesthood at 13 — then he is wasting words.
Echoing managers words about the importance of community ties, The Stayers reported being settled to their posts often in the face of harsh working environments, because they viewed their work as a vocation to the community, and/or spiritual commitment.
If the bishop does not call you to Holy Orders, you do not have a vocation to the priesthood.
The final "test" of whether or not you have a vocation to the priesthood is the call of the bishop.
Temperamentally he seems far too self-effacing for flashy academic showmanship, and too agnostic for activism, so I ask if he was drawn to this work by the abstract intellectual challenge, or by a vocation to help the poor.
We think you have a vocation (to serve the church) and it will work out.'".
Feeling a vocation to minister to the urban poor, Henson served in the East End of London and Barking before becoming chaplain of an ancient hospice in Ilford in 1895.
Stowe said of the book that she had a "vocation to preach on paper," just as the men in her family preached in pulpits.
Yet even at the peak, a vocation to a contemplative order was pretty rare.
