• Responding to Christ call-”follow me”-in here and now

• Our Vocation as Christians is to pattern our lives on the Spirit.

Teaching, and example of Jesus Christ, to whom we are joined
through our creation, our built in destiny, our baptism our whole
graced life.
• Our commitment to Christ in the World today is the vocation
shared by all Christians.
• We are all in search of something that will make us whole and
happy, something that will satisfy our deepest longings.
• Times, many of us feeling of incompleteness and restlessness-
”Parang may kulang sa buhay ko”.
• We naturally yearn for completeness.
• Young persons yearn to know themselves, the meaning of their lives,
and their career in life.
• To search for meaning is part of the dynamism of being human.
• Vocation is from the Latin word Vocare means “to summon” or “to call
someone over.”
• We are called by God to a personal loving relationship with Him, and
with all others. This tells us that:
1. The one who calls is God we use the word “vocation” to speak of the
one who is called, but not so much about the One who calls God. This God
is the source of our life, the one who sustains every moment of our
existence, from birth to our final destiny.
2. We share a common Christian vocation that is rooted in our baptism
 our first calling is to be with Christ to live our lives through Him.
 When did our vocation to follow Christ start
From the moment of our Baptism God our Father
has offered us new life in Christ through the Spirit.
3. We share this call with others
 God has willed to call all people to be holy, and to save
them not just as individuals without any bond or link
between them, but rather as members of a community, a
people who acknowledge him and serve him in holiness.
 • Where and who will you be five, ten, or more from now?
• How many of your classmates will become Priest or Nuns, or the one who got
married or to stay single?
1. Discern
Review our lesson on “Developing Skills in
Discernment”
If it is a major decision that you have to make in the
future for your particular vocation your state of
life you need to spend time to carefully reflect on
your choices.
 2. Study yourself
It is your person that you bring to a particular commitment. It is
important, therefore, to have a realistic knowledge of yourself
your talents skills interests character limitations weaknesses most
of all, ask yourself what you can contribute to be of fruitful service
to the community.
Consider your Health, too. Your physical limitations.
3. Live a good life as you prepare for a Future Vocation
Preparation in terms of formation for any state of life in the future is
important. While you are in school, study hard and do well in the
course of your choice.
4. Develop good relationships with your family, friends, and the community to
become a more loving person.
Developing authentic friendships, caring for members of the family,
and developing your own love relationship with God gradually form
you toward becoming a good and loving person.
As a student, exercise and fulfill to the best of your ability your
responsibilities as a student, a son or daughter to your parents, and
a true friend to your friends.
Regular prayer and celebrating the Eucharist offer needed help
and moral strength.
• All of us are called by God to love Him and do our share in building a just society. This
common calling to live a holy life and to contribute to the mission of the Church is lived out
through the following types of Vocation:
1. The Lay State/single blessedness
• all the faithful, except those in Holy Orders and those who belong to Religious
State sanctioned by the Church, are called the laity.
• The laity are the faithful who by Baptism are incorporated into Christ as
members of the People of God, Christ’s “Body”.
• The laity, who constitute the great majority of Christians, live in the ordinary
circumstances of family and social life: they form families, they study, they
work, they create new relationship.
• Lay Persons “follow Christ” according to the life they choose:
a.Married Life- the sacrament of vocation for most of the laity
is Matrimony.
b.Celibate Life – Some lay persons choose not to marry but stay
single and celibate. Celibate loving is the freely chosen
vocation of religious, priest, and laity, too, who opted for
“single Blessedness”
2. The Religious State – some of us may not be called to single
blessedness or to married life but to the Religious State the chosen
life of those who enter an order or a congregation of celibate
men or women consecrated to God.

3. The Clerical State – the Greek word presbyteroi in the early

Church refers to the “elders.”
 Personal relationship with God

Basic Types of Prayer:

1. Adoration we adore God as our Creator and Lord, on whom we depend for our
very existence
2. Contrition we ask God’s forgiveness through our Lord Jesus Christ, for the sins
through which we rejected God and His Love.
3. Thanksgiving we thanks to God for all that He has bestowed upon us.
4. Supplication or Petition we present our needs to god, asking His divine help.
5. Offering we place before God all our thoughts, words, and deeds, our whole lives
1. To be Transformed by God – if we search our heart, we will
discover that the deepest motivation of Prayer is that we all
want and need God to love us with a love that can transform us.
2. To Respond to God’s call for us to “be still”
be still and know that I am God
• It is important to remember that in prayer the initiative is always
from God.
3. To draw strength from Christ – when we do our share in
building a just and peaceful society, we necessarily give a part of
ourselves our time, effort, talents, and skills.
• We pray because it is in and through prayer that we are able to
ensure that our acts of charity and justice are not mere
expressions of world ideology or plain activism. We draw our
strength for all that we have to do from our life of prayer.
 A. Personal Prayer “whenever you pray, go to your room. Close your
door, and pray to your Father in Private.”
• Authentic Christian Prayer must be:
1. Grounded in Sacred Scripture and the great prayers of the Church’s
Liturgy;
2. Actively related to others in our concrete human context;
3.Consciously seeking to discern and follow the spirit’s movements within us;
and
4. Formative and transformative in regard to personal growth (CFC 1495)
B. Types of Prayer C. Public, Communal,
1. Reciting Traditional Prayer Liturgical Prayer
2. Listening to Religious songs
3.Silent Prayer
4. Praying with Nature
5.Praying as the Saints did.
6.The Consciousness Examen of St. Ignatius
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