A Particular Way of Loving

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Quo Vadis? What are you doing with your one wild
and precious life? (M Oliver)
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Life is full of choices
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..we make our choices in an ever changing world
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Despite rapid change and uncertainty
human beings always ask the same deep questions..
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Who am I?
Do I matter?
Where am I going?
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Within each of these questions lie many secret
longings

• To be loved

• To be understood

• To be accepted

• To make a difference

• To feel good

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Some people have described these longings as a
God-shaped hole inside of us
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You have made us for yourself, O God, and our
hearts are restless until they rest in you
alone. St Augustine
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We each choose our path in life.
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Thoughts from people whove walked their path

• . We cannot do everything, and there is a sense
  of liberation in realising that this enables us
  to do something and to do it very well.
  Archbishop Oscar Romero

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• God has created me to do him some definite
  service
• He has committed some work to me
• Which he has not committed to another.
• John Henry Newman

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All paths are ways of loving

• In response to Gods call we each choose a
  particular way of loving.
• .our vocation

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In the Church we hear the word vocation used
about ..
Single Life
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Family Life
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Consecrated Religious Life
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• Diocesan Priesthood

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What are you doing with your one wild and
precious life?