Explain vocation and its

essential elements

Class Objectives:
Create personal reflection for
clarity of one’s vocation

Appreciate the importance of

one’s calling.
VOCATION
Lesson 1
Every member of the Church
is called to holiness (
Lumen Gentium, Ch V). This
means we are called to love:
to love God and to love each
other.  The way that you live
out that call to holiness is
your vocation.
Vocation
is a life-calling that everyone receives from God. It has
many elements such as, work, personal growth and
development, career and possibly marriage. It’s a function
or station in life to which one is called by God to achieve a
sense of fulfilment in life. An example of a vocation would
be a nurse.
7 Essential things about
your vocation
1. Vocation is an invitation
2. God calls you personally
3. Your vocation is an expression of who you are
4. God knows us best
5. A vocation is different from a career
6. Every vocation is a call to love
7. God respects your freedom
Activity 1: visit the site:
https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/quiz/whats-your-spiritual-type.aspx. Answer the following survey questions
on this site. Answer only the first survey.
Attach below the result of the survey.
Recognize the voice of Jesus

• Sacred Text/ Sacred • Conscience

Scriptures
• Events
• Sacraments
• Relationships
• Desires
• Silence
• Emotions
Will you
answer
or
decline?
Activity 2: Journal on
what your calling is.
Write out 15 responses to
the question: “What is my
calling?” Put pen to paper
and go! Do not pause or
edit, and do not stop before
you get to 50. Your
calling will make itself
known.
Lesson 2
Discerning and
Deciding
 Differentiate various steps for
discerning and deciding

Lesson Construct personal commitment

Objectives: overcoming existing obstacle to
one’s calling

Realize the need for discernment on

decision making process.
Was there a time in your life that
everything is unclear? that you must
decide what ever it happened?
What is
discernment?
The word discernment into the two Latin words it
comes from, we get ‘dis’ (apart) and ‘cenere’ (to
separate). 
To discern means ‘to separate apart’.  Any time
we must choose between two or more options, we
discern.  If both options are attractive, the best
choice might not be obvious
Vocational Discernment is Self-discovery

Choosing Discovering

Deepest Identity
10 Steps for
Discerning and
Deciding
1. Don’t Explore
alone
2. Listen
3. Find a Spiritual Director
4. Cultivate
the Right
Dispositions
(Attitudes)
5. Go on a
Retreat
Seek opportunities for
Catechesis
7. Make contact
with your Diocesan
Vocation Director
8. Approach a
religious
community and
make an enquiry
9. Cultivate
your
freedom
10. Dare to dream
and live big!
15 Most Common Stumbling
Blocks to Discernment
1. Fear
2. Lack of Freedom
3. Lack of Knowledge
4. False idea of who God is
5. Unrealistic expectations
6. Past Hurts
7. Inordinate focus on the self
8. Sense of Unworthiness
9. Focusing too much on the sacrifices
10. Lack of Freedom with respect to sexual desires
11. Anxiety
12. Spiritual Dryness
13. Too much Noise
14. Inability to make a choice
15. Being too rash or flippant with decision making