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Vocations and their Recognition—II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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It has been seen in the previous article that there are three aspects under which we may approach the analysis of a vocation. Within the vocation itself there is the divine call and the ecclesiastical call. External to it, but as its necessary condition, there are the appropriate gifts and qualities in the recipient. We have seen that the divine call is a grace communicated to the soul. From the side of God we have seen that this grace is offered not as a matter of precept, but of counsel, to resist it, or rather to fail to receive it, is not necessarily sinful since its acceptance is left to our free, prudential choice; but this is not to say that it may not be sinful. For there are other sins than those of formal disobedience to a precept; there is the sin of rashness, against prudence. And failure to accept the grace offerered may be just such a sin.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1956 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 A. Bonduelle, O.P. The Recognition of Vocation, in the volume ‘Vocation’ previously referred to, p.45.