Meanwhile, Father Clohessy considers how the grandeur of the Church has gone, how the call to his vocation is less insistent than it had been, how his congregation had fallen off..
Meanwhile, Father Clohessy considers how the grandeur of the Church has gone, how the call to his vocation is less insistent than it had been, how his congregation had fallen off… At Justina's house, she has Mr. Gilfoyle, Maeve's father-in-law, reads Breda's letter to her.
My new vocation offers less security than the old one did, but that seems fitting somehow.
Merchants frequently colluded commercially and politically with officials, despite the fact that scholar-officials looked down on mercantile vocations as less respectable pursuits than farming or craftsmanship.
Lofty, irascible and single-minded, Udo has the temperament of an artist, though his vocation is rather less exalted.
As the novel wears on, though, the heroine's vocation becomes steadily less interesting because Morrow keeps burdening it with significance, until, in the end, the act of divination has been asked to represent practically every form of human cognitive activity.
But religious vocations have become less attractive, and parochial schools have faced increasing competition from charter schools.
But what the church is looking for in its candidates for the priesthood seems less a vocation than a profile.
A dinner-table anecdote from his stepfather, about a colleague who was approached for treatment by a member of the Mafia, provided the cute premise for Lonergan's first successful screenplay, "Analyze This," which he wrote when he was in his early thirties, largely to support his less lucrative vocation as a playwright of tight-focus character dramas, including "Lobby Hero" and "This Is Our Youth".
To him, comedy was less a vocation and more a vehicle through which he could highlight the absurdity of the human condition.
