Sentence examples for vocation at from inspiring English sources

At ten, however, she formally announced her vocation at the dinner table.

She chuckled over the accidents of life: "So you see, no vocation at all".

Mr. Lonergan made a beeline away from medicine and elected drama as his vocation at the Walden School.

He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, manifesting the first signs of his vocation at age 10 when he won a Charlie Chaplin imitation contest.

A further stage was reached when a license to teach, the jus ubique docendi granted only after a formal examination empowered a master to carry on his vocation at any similar centre.

Cardinal O'Brien studied for his vocation at St Andrew's College, Drygrange, Roxburghshire, and was ordained on 3 April 1965, a few weeks after his 26th birthday.

The Rev. Shawn McKnight, executive director of the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that celibacy, which is mandatory for Roman Catholic priests and religious, was "the commitment to renounce one's natural right to marriage and to live a chaste life for the kingdom of God".

Recruiting young men to make the commitment to become priests is a complex process that involves guidance by priests as well as the self-explorations of the candidates, said the Rev. Luke M. Sweeney, director of vocations at St. Joseph's.

Froebel became convinced of his vocation as a teacher at the school.

Graduating from the Holmquist School and Connecticut College, she found her vocation as a teacher at the Trinity School, St . Lukes and Riverdale, and later as head of admissions at the Dwight-Englewood School; she left behind generations of grateful students who cherish fond memories of her to this day.

She found her true vocation as a finance officer at Save the Children where her role is all about making donors' money go further.