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What is your vocation

Ashleigh Kassock | Catholic Herald

Scene from the new vocations video for National Vocation Awareness Week.

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In honor of National Vocation Awareness Week the diocesan Office of Vocations is promoting a new video featuring vocations to the priesthood, marriage and religious life along with a special message from Arlington Bishop Michael F. Burbidge. 

 

The annual weeklong celebration, which began in the United States
began in 1976, was dedicated to promote vocations through prayer and education,
and to renew prayers and support for those considering a vocation.  

The video includes interviews with Dominican Sister Mary Veronica
Keller, principal of Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School in Dumfries;
Father Jeb S. Donelan, parochial vicar at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Falls
Church; and Phil and Kathleen O’Beirne, a married couple and proud parents of four
children and one on the way, parishioners of St. John the Beloved Church in McLean. 

“God’s plan is for us to be with Him one day in Heaven,” said
Sister Mary Veronica Keller. “We all have a vocation and we are all called to
union with God with love. The best vocation is God’s will. There is nothing better
than God’s will. It’s just how the Lord wants to work through each one of us.”

The video closes with a special message from Bishop Burbidge who encourages
everyone living out their vocation to renew their “yes” to God’s call for their
lives and pray for the grace they need to continue in their vocation.

“I always suggest to those discerning  their vocation in life to make sure the
question you are asking is not, ‘What am I going to do with my life?’ but
rather,  ‘Lord, what is it You are asking
me to do with my life?’ said Bishop Burbidge.

“When we say yes to that call, we will experience the
peace and the joy and the serenity we are seeking.” 

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