Vocation comes from “vocatus” which means a summoning. All people are summoned to share in divine life. Grace, divine life, is already at work in everyone’s lives constantly calling us to a deeper participation. The key is learning to perceive the subtle action of grace and discerning where it is inviting us to go. Believers act upon their own call and spread the good news of the self-gift of God by the example of their living. Each person has their own particular way of living out their meaningful commitments. The ways people find their full potential are many. This call to holiness, which is a call to wholeness, can be as single or married, a member of a religious community or part of the civil community. Some people are called by God to be laity while others are summoned to be ordained for service to the Church. Coming to know our proper state in life is a striving for holiness and relies on cultivating our own self-awakening and recognition of our own gifts. 

We believe that God is present in the world and near to his creation. However, the presence of God is a mystery. As a mystery it can never be perfectly and totally explained. As the ocean cannot fit into a hole dug by a boy on the beach, neither can we fit all of God's reality into our minds. The ordinary things and events of life hint at God's nearness; be it food, water, human relationships, touch, beauty. We find that we are unfinished and God is constantly calling us into being and toward completion.