Vocations
'Who is God calling you to be?'
Vocations Sunday Prayer
God our Loving Father,
you called each of us by name through the Sacrament of Baptism to holiness.
Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, you made us the temples of the Holy Spirit.
Help us to listen to the cry of our Lord Jesus from the Holy Cross ‘I thirst’
and respond to the call
‘Go out to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the nations’.
Guide us in every step we take in life
and lead us in every decision we make in responding to your call.
Make us and mould us into the living images of Christ your Son,
who was always close to those in need.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord,
Amen.
Vocare is the Latin word for ‘to call’ and as a Catholic school we believe the biggest calling we hear is from God. We are called to be holy, called to follow God in our lives, called to use our gifts at work.
Every human is called by God. In Baptism, we begin our journey to be closer to him. Our vocation is strengthened by the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist and further developed in Confirmation.
Our gifts are not just for us; the gifts that God gives us are there to be shared. This is where vocations come from. We believe that every one of us has a calling to share our gifts.
Vocation is not always about what we want to be – it is what God calls us to be. There will be times that what we want to do matches what we are called to do, and there are times that our vocation is not clear to us. We pray that God helps us to see what we are being called to be.
