Section 5 Building Your Relationship With God - 17 The Holy Church And The Holy Sacraments
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Questions about Religious Vocation

Question: It is believed that most people who follow a religious vocation in any of your church is a calling from You. If this is the case, why is it that there are those who are far from being morally and ethically upright? Why don’t You stop them or change them?

God’s answer:

A newspaper:
HEADLINE
Church Scandal!

 
Many are called but few are chosen.
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Question: What do you mean by many are called but few are chosen?

God’s answer:

Screening Process
They are indiscriminate.
Only a few are marriage material

Meaning: The biblical verse: “Many are called but few are chosen” came from the parable of the wedding banquet, whereby the king sent an invitation to selected guest but they refused to come. So, He then invited every Tom, Dick and Harry to come. During the feast there was one person who did not wear the appropriate wedding garment. This person was then summarily kicked out.

A religious vocation calls for people to take a vow to serve God. Not all who are attracted to a religious vocation were chosen by God to do so. According to God, the screening process of His various churches is indiscriminate, some perhaps more than others. As a result, they fail to screen out those who are not “marriage material”- those who are not wearing the appropriate wedding Garment. As God said: My church is infiltrated with many scoundrels.

Question: Who are your chosen ones? Who are those that have a genuine calling to a religious vocation?

God’s answer:

They are predisposed to come follow Me.

Question: What is about them that make them predisposed to follow you?

God’s answer:

Acquiescent

Acquiescent means inclined to acquiesce. The word ACQUIESCE means "to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively —often used with in and

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