Comments on: Questions for those discerning a religious vocation http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2009/01/questions-for-discerning-religious-vocation/ A Catholic blog on the vocation to love and holiness, on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and on diverse theological and philosophical questions. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joseph Bolin http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2009/01/questions-for-discerning-religious-vocation/#comment-19 Joseph Bolin Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:20:24 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog2/?p=27#comment-19 Ask about whatever's unclear to you :) Seriously, I don't quite picture the situation you are in or have in mind, and couldn't give you questions specifically fitted for you. Both a vocations director and a novice master (or director for postulants) have two roles. They can help you acquire a more accurate and honest picture of yourself, and they can give you information about vocations or the specific community in which you are that will be helpful in your discernment. Basically in both cases the important thing is a relationship in which both persons know and trust the other. Then, after speaking to a vocations director about, for example, what you're looking for, hoping for, in a community, you could ask for suggestions on types of community; or if you're further along and have a community in mind, whether he thinks you haven't yet reckoned with certain difficulties you'll experience there, etc. It should be a quite individualized matter, rather than a fixed set of questions. Ask about whatever's unclear to you :)

Seriously, I don't quite picture the situation you are in or have in mind, and couldn't give you questions specifically fitted for you. Both a vocations director and a novice master (or director for postulants) have two roles. They can help you acquire a more accurate and honest picture of yourself, and they can give you information about vocations or the specific community in which you are that will be helpful in your discernment.

Basically in both cases the important thing is a relationship in which both persons know and trust the other. Then, after speaking to a vocations director about, for example, what you're looking for, hoping for, in a community, you could ask for suggestions on types of community; or if you're further along and have a community in mind, whether he thinks you haven't yet reckoned with certain difficulties you'll experience there, etc. It should be a quite individualized matter, rather than a fixed set of questions.

]]> By: Andrew Dinegar http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2009/01/questions-for-discerning-religious-vocation/#comment-18 Andrew Dinegar Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:39:26 +0000 http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog2/?p=27#comment-18 What questions should I ask my vocations director and my postulant director? Thank you. What questions should I ask my vocations director and my postulant director?

Thank you.

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