We might think of Jesus’ raising of Lazarus as the deepest meaning of vocation...

The dignity of each individual vocation consists in the communal destiny of each person...

Paul says: "all of you are one in Christ Jesus."

The hand is different from the eye and so they can each contribute to the unity of the body...

The monastic system had at least provided a death-defying “no” meaning to vocation.

Jesus’ life and ministry is a call to die for the sake of others...

From the isolation of death, as Lazarus, we are called...

St. Paul describes our vocation by using the corporate imagery of the body or the temple...

A vocation originates ‘outside’ of ourselves...

Since the Church consists of those “called out”, any vocation is...

A vocation is something that happens to us. It is the experience of ‘another’, says St. Paul.

A vocation “calls us forth” to a divine purpose...

Any vocation is a call to build-up the community of love...

A vocation is always a promise regarding our eternal destiny...

Our vocation pertains to our entire living history in God…

A vocation is not to be seen as limited to the monastic concept of the religious life...

Since there is little proportion between God’s Will and ours, God's power and ours, a vocation never fails to be…

Origen and Augustine’s original teaching on vocation was that it is…

A vocation is --- since there is the possibility of being diverted or distracted from the goal.

The vocational process concerns every Christian, even every human being…

Descartes and Kant promoted a rationalist view of a reasonable vocation, which is contrary to its --- nature.

Since a vocation aims at the highest goods, it requires to give-up secular and lesser ones...

If one’s vocation is only reasonable or rational, it loses its --- dimension.

No one is pre-destined to fulfill his vocation since it requires renewed commitments…

Being eschatological and heterogeneous, a vocation is also…

No vocation is hedonistic, but always --- at some point.

Abraham at first doubted that God’s covenant with him could be fulfilled...

Jesus prayed to be delivered from his appointed calling...

Joshua reiterated the covenant with Israel after they had settled in the land of Canaan...

Each spouse ought to constantly renew his/her vows to his/her conjugal partner...

We do not simply “know” about our vocation as we would an itinerary on a travel schedule...

Vocation is about being raised from the dead...

A vocation is not to be seen as a call to a secular activity or career...

A vocation is external to the person who is called...

One does not simply “choose” a vocation, but one responds to a summons...

A vocational decision [is not] to be found in the individual who “thinks by himself"...