Vocations: unique and universal ... What is a vocation? Our
Calling comes from God A vocation is a ‘calling’ from God,
unique to each person - no two vocations are the same. A
vocation is something particular that God is asking us to do
with and in our lives and which only we can fulfil. Cardinal
Newman put it this way: “God has created me to do him some
definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has
not committed to another”. A vocation is not static but fluid –
a person may feel called to different things at different stages
of life - but in discovering our vocation, we discover that
which gives us life and makes us feel most fully ourselves. It
is, however, important to recognize that each individual
vocation needs to be seen in the context of the whole. As
baptized Christians we have a universal calling as members of
the body of Christ, the Church, a body which is made up of
people seeking to strengthen and enrich the whole. In the words
of St Paul: “The body is a unit, though it is made