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Lesson 2

The Personal Call

A vocation is God’s call to a particular and permanent state in life in direct service to another person or the Church. These vocations are marriage, ordained priesthood, and consecrated religious life.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Marriage Religious Life The Church Vocation
Essential Lessons
Lesson Vocabulary

  • Laity
    :
    (n.): Baptized Catholics who are not members of the clergy.
  • Common Good
    :
    (n.): The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.
  • Sex (Sexuality)
    :
    (n.): An essential part of our human identity as being either male or female. Sexuality includes the physical, psychological, and emotional characteristics of men and of women, as well as our attitudes and need for love and friendship. Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of our body and soul.
  • Ecclesial Movements
    :
    (n.): Christian associations of predominantly laypersons that typically arise around a founder with a particular charism, and whose missionary work expresses that charism.
  • Charism
    :
    (n.): A grace of the Holy Spirit which builds up the Church for the good of her members and the world.
  • Missionary
    :
    (n.): A person who engages in the work of initial evangelization and establishment of the Church in non-Christian lands. In recent decades, this work has extended to lands previously considered Christian but that have forgotten the Gospel message (the New Evangelization).
  • Marriage
    :
    (n.): The union between one man and one woman that is unitive, indissoluble, faithful, and procreative.
  • Holy Orders
    :
    (n.): The Sacrament through which the mission entrusted by Christ to His Apostles continues to be carried out in the Church until the end of time. This Sacrament has three distinct degrees, or “orders”: deacon, priest, and bishop.
  • Spouse
    :
    (n.): A man or woman who has entered into a valid covenant of marriage with a member of the opposite sex. A husband or a wife.
  • The Church
    :
    (n.): The name given to the assembly of the People of God whom He has called together from all the ends of the earth. It is both the earthly institution established by Christ during His earthly life to mediate the gift of salvation on earth, and the heavenly communion of all the saints together with God and His angels.
  • Consecrated Religious Life
    :
    (n.): The permanent vocation characterized by the public profession of the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, in a stable state of life recognized by the Church.
  • Society of Apostolic Life
    :
    (n.): A group whose purpose is to build the Kingdom of God and who live in community but do not make religious vows.
  • Hermit
    :
    (n.): A person who lives a eremitic life - a solitary life dedicated to prayer and meditation.
  • Secular Institute
    :
    (n.): A form of consecrated life where members live out the evangelical counsels in their ordinary lives, but they do not necessarily live in community. Pope Pius XII described secular institutes as working “for the sanctification of the world from within.”
  • Evangelical Counsels
    :
    (n.): The vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience made by those who enter consecrated life.

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