What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People

Chapter 33: PRAYER FOR THE RIGHT CHOICE OF A STATE OF LIFE.

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The author addresses young readers about choosing a life course, offering plain explanations of religious vocation and practical guidance for discernment. He challenges the notion that a mystical interior attraction is always required, emphasizes right intention and sufficient fitness of nature and grace for admission to priesthood or religious life, and answers common doubts such as lack of attraction, fear of making a mistake, youth, and the world's need for service. Chapters cover aiming high, the state of perfection, the duties of priests, teachers, and parents in fostering vocations, and conclude with encouragement to make a generous, well-considered choice.

PRAYER FOR THE RIGHT CHOICE OF A STATE OF LIFE.

O Thou, the God of wisdom and counsel, Who dost perceive in my heart a sincere desire of pleasing Thee alone, and of conforming myself entirely to Thy most holy will in the choice of my state of life, grant me, I beseech Thee, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, my mother, and of my patron saints, especially St. Joseph and St. Aloysius, the grace to know what state of life I should choose, and when known to embrace it, so that I may seek and spread therein Thy glory, work out my salvation, and merit that reward in heaven which Thou hast promised to those who fulfill Thy divine will. Amen.

An indulgence of three hundred days, once a day, for the above prayer, granted by Pope Pius X, May 2, 1905.

THE FRANK MEANY CO., PRINTERS, INC., NEW YORK