And importantly, it's probably one of the most fulfilling vocations there is.
This is not one of those Hollywood movies about happy nuns with fulfilled vocations.
Rogers recovered; she spoke; she grew up and became a Harvard University professor and a clinical psychologist who treated abused and abandoned children, fulfilling the vocation that, when she was a teenager, landed her in a mental institution.
When the war ended and Moore returned to his wife and child — a daughter named Honor — it was time to begin fulfilling the vocation that he had first considered at St. Paul's School, and in 1946 he entered the General Theological Seminary to begin his training.
The perpetual stalemate in this conflict that the US government has been complicit in supporting is what keeps Zion from fulfilling its vocation as a "house of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah 56:7).
But how do we fulfill our vocation as a national museum?
Deciding to accept ordination through RCWP brought her peace, says her brother Mark: "For the first time, she felt she could fulfill her vocation in ministry and not abandon the faith, the rituals, the liturgy she loved".
It never became monetarily rewarding, but his vocation fulfilled him and thrilled me.
He was not the first Episcopal priest to find his vocation fulfilled in the so-called slums, but he was the first to widen the understanding of the Christian mission from narrow concepts of overseas work or work in rural areas into an organized and structured ministry to the poor, the minorities, and other neglected people of the inner city.
This is not because art no longer performs a religious function and so no longer fulfills the highest vocation of art; it is because there emerge in modernity certain "art works" that are no longer the expressions of true human freedom and life and so no longer genuine art works at all.
