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My vocation is Love!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

“At last I have found my vocation, my vocation is Love!… In the heart of the Church, I will be Love!”

Is this discovery of St. Thérèse simply the common vocation of all of us, or has St. Thérèse found her own special vocation? Or are both true? Is it both her special vocation and the common vocation of us all? This essay on the words “My Vocation is Love” argues that it is both: the special vocation of St. Thérèse consists in giving herself entirely to that which is our common vocation–to live in love.

New website for Paths of Love

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

A new website has just been launched for the book Paths of Love: On the Discernment of Vocation. Related texts, commentary of the author, and readers’ comments and reviews of the book will in the future be posted there. If there is sufficient interest, a discussion page will also be set up on that website.

Paths of Love on Amazon

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The Book “Paths of Love: The Discernment of Vocation According to Aquinas, Ignatius, and Pope John Paul II” is now available at Amazon.

On our own website you can read details about this book on discernment, or read its first chapter, an Introduction to Principles of Christian life. (update: now hosted on its own website)

“The Lord has his plan for each of us, he calls each one of us by name. Our task is to be listeners, capable of perceiving his call, to be courageous and faithful, so that we may follow him, and in the end, be found as trustworthy servants who have used well the gifts entrusted to us.”

“He loves us, he makes us see and experience his love, and from God’s loving us ‘first,’ love can also arise as a response within us.”

Vocation Discernment: Aquinas, Ignatius, and Pope John Paul II

Friday, February 29th, 2008
Discernment of vocation cover

“At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love!” Love is truly the heart of every vocation. This book available for the first time here looks at the Catholic understanding of the vocation to marriage, priesthood, or religious life. It has several features are nearly unique among books on vocation. First, while being addressed to all Catholics, not only to theologians, it does not oversimplify vocation, or give a mere compilation of advice, but aims to present the rich depth and wealth of the Catholic understanding of vocation in a simple and accessible manner. Secondly, this book goes right to two great saints at the heart of quite different traditions on vocation, namely St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Ignatius Loyola, and the basic difference between them, a difference which is often unappreciated, or is passed over superficially. The goal is not to decide in favor of one over the other, nor to examine in detail their historical or theological connection; this book rather aims to use these different points of view to convey all that belongs to a full Christian and human approach to vocation. Read a summary of this book on love and vocation. (Now hosted at its own website www.pathsoflove.com)