Sentence examples for spiritual vocation from inspiring English sources

Henceforth, she saw no contradiction between her artistic and spiritual vocation.

Is her fascination with the paranormal a study of mass psychology, an aesthetic pose, or a personal spiritual vocation?

Although Catholic ministry was Elliott's spiritual vocation, he'd had a decades-long intelligence career, at one point running an N.S.A. station in West Germany during the late Cold War.

There is a tendency to venerate the "Labour tradition" as a spiritual vocation – which puts off anyone who feels untouched by the spirit – or to presume only idiots, sadists and plutocrats vote Conservative.

For Bellow, the literary career is a spiritual vocation ' a rabbinical calling, even though one of the images he employs is incongruously Catholic: as an adolescent, he eucharistically absorbed the books he read, 'as if they were communion wafers'.

DePaola, the writer or illustrator of several hundred books, including the popular "Strega Nona" series, about a good-natured Italian witch and her doltish assistant, explored his spiritual vocation with Benedictines as a young man.

But with the numbers of young women seeking spiritual vocations shrinking, mothers of grown children like Sister Camille, who have had their marriages annulled, have become a more important source of recruits.

In Catholic convents, a monthly "Day of Recollection" was a regular retreat day, free from the responsibilities of teaching, nursing or other ministries, to nourish and preserve the spiritual core of religious vocation.

Rituals of initiation into a secret society or a religious vocation (viz., priesthood, monasticism, traditional or spiritual healing) are often included among rites of passage as characteristic rituals of transition.

Lubich founded "mini-cities" in several countries where members could live and carry out their spiritual and social vocations.

In its conflation of artistic allegory and erotic love, this story of a master painter's deluded obsession with creative perfection appears to hold up a mirror to the darkest fears of artists – that their ambitions might be impossible to realise and their vocation a spiritual dead end.