“… the common vocation of all Christ’s disciples, a vocation to holiness and to the mission of evangelizing the world.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1533
You are unique and unrepeatable. No one else sees the world the way you do. No one else has your gifts and insights. No one else has your D.N.A. or your thumbprints. You were called out of nothingness by the generous love of a Creator God who chose to give you life. God has a purpose and a meaning for you because everything you are comes from God. You are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27). You are his work of art.
Apart from each person’s fundamental vocation, their calling to holiness, the Catholic Church teaches that there are particular vocations or ways of responding to God’s call: Lay Ministry, Consecrated and Religious Life, Single and Married life, or being called by the Church to be Ordained as Priests or Permanent Deacons.
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Deacon Richard Nesbitt, Fr. John McKenna and Fr. Agustin Conessa, ordained in 2006
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