What is God Calling You To?

As we end the week of Vocations, it's important for us to consider what a vocation is. The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth defines it as "A call from God to all members of the Church to embrace a life of holiness. Specifically, it refers to a call to live the holy life as an ordained minister, as a vowed religious (sister or brother), in a Christian marriage, or in single life."

I want for a moment to concentrate on that first part of the definition  - that we are all called to embrace a life of holiness. What does that mean? Do we think of ourselves as living holy lives? Or do we think that is better left to those people with a "real" vocation  - the priests and sisters? What does it mean to be holy? If you Google the word holy, you get about 541,000,000 results. Dictionary.com defines it as dedicated or devoted to the service of God. Isn't that really what we are all called to do? By virtue of our Baptism, we are all called to the priesthood of the faithful, meaning we are called to live our lives serving God and God's people with whatever gifts or talents God has given us. So live out your vocation - whatever that is. Be holy! And check out this video - and share it - which may help clarify for you a little more what that means...