Sentence examples for clerical vocation from inspiring English sources

Indeed, for those without an independent income or a clerical vocation  such a way of life was not very feasible in Britain or Ireland.

Although the Protestant Reformation, in its rejection of clerical celibacy, its affirmation of the vocation of the laity, and its separation of temporal and spiritual authority, resolved the contradiction between the spirit and the flesh that was characteristic of medieval Catholicism, Feuerbach argues, it failed to resolve the contradiction between faith and reason, or theology and philosophy.

The vocation is usually passed down within a clerical or deeply religious family.

"People see the habit in a much more positive light then clerical clothing, the black shirt, white collar and suit," said Martin Ganeri, who is a Dominican vocations promoter for England, where five people entered the order this year.

Vocation, vocation, vocation, Kirstie.

A vocation?

Their vocation is vacation.

It was a vocation.

Computers displaced clerical workers.

But clerical staff?

Teaching was his vocation.