Some women and men are called to consecrated religious life. To many, this vocation is the most difficult to understand. They might wonder why someone would want to sacrifice a life with a spouse and children, or the opportunity to be a public sign of Christ and administer the Sacraments, for a life that seems set apart, isolated, and even confusing. But the truth is that those called to consecrated religious life are called to a life that is wonderfully unique and special: they sacrifice married life or the priesthood to live exclusively for the Kingdom of God. A consecrated religious lives the union with Christ now that awaits the rest of us in Heaven. So, while it may seem a consecrated person gives up so much that others have, they do so only to gain so much more.