'sacred profession' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when referring to a job or career that is seen as very important and ethical. For example, "Teaching is a sacred profession, and it is our duty to make the classroom a safe and nurturing environment for our students."
Early on he says that to him teaching is a sacred profession: he pays his debt to it over and over in these pages – by some rather brilliant teaching, but also by celebrating his own teachers, who have been many and various.
But maybe it is time to look at the challenges of balancing the sacred profession of practicing medicine with media and fame.
And fighting against the attempts to take joy and love out of this sacred profession is the only way I can imagine to pay that gift forward.
No one taught him more about the life-changing impact of teaching, which he calls "the sacred profession". Shooting down canards is one of Sondheim's great hobbies, and a great number of clips are devoted to him dismantling false assumptions about his work.
"You are members of a sacred profession.
Certain notions sacred to the profession appear to be breathing their last: That you can still find some "authentic" contrast to our own overprocessed culture.
Such conferences are secret and sacred to the profession, immune to the inquiries of trial lawyers and blocked to the news media.
In what appears to have been an increasingly desperate effort to hang onto its prestige and profits, Dewey violated some unwritten but still sacred rules of the profession.
And I observed my horror and the heartless intransigence of egoistic clinicians who broke the sacred trust of their profession and did harm by practicing mindless medicine.
The pages of the Times in Van Anda's day had the same authority with the journalistic profession that the sacred gold plates had among the Mormons of Joseph Smith's day.
After all, doctors and nurses enter their professions motivated by a sacred vocation to care and to make people better.
