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General Description: IS SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT CONSIDERING A RELIGIOUS VOCATION? Here’s the still-unsurpassed guide to discernment—grounded in the theology of Aquinas. On the question of religious vocation, all are agreed: A candidate must be called by God. But how God calls, and how one knows He has called, are questions that receive widely differing answers. Errors are costly: A “false” vocation can harm both the Church and the man or woman who was not truly called. A vocation “missed” means a life’s full potential unrealized—and perhaps an incalculable loss to souls. Which is why this book by Fr. Edward Farrell, OP, received such high praise from reviewers, educators and pastors alike when it first appeared in 1952. Father Farrell’s aims: 1) to lay down “practical, workable principles, as immediately proximate to action as possible, which can be used profitably by confessors and spiritual directors in their task of guiding prospective candidates for the religious state”; and 2) “to order, crystallize, and make explicit a body of Thomistic doctrine on religious vocation.” In fact, Fr. Farrell succeeded in doing even more: As several reviewers pointed out, his guidebook was no less indispensable to young men and women considering religious life—and their parents—than to pastors and counselors. The reason? Sound advice and reliable answers on topics like:
“As complete a guide as seems possible for judging religious vocations....practical...This book should be a valuable aid to directors, an immense help to the young themselves.” —Ave Maria (1952) “Candidates’ qualifications are treated extensively. The author also singles out the individuals who are the most important instruments in the work of fostering a vocation.”— Catholic Educational Review “Analyzes vocation in the light of accepted doctrine on virtues and their influence on human acts, and is able thereby to arrive at a real definition of religious vocation....From an elaboration of this, the author then evolves workable principles that can be used profitably by spiritual directors in guiding prospective candidates for the religious state.”—Dominicana “The author has attempted, and in the opinion of this reviewer with great success, ‘to order, crystallize, and make explicit a body of Thomistic doctrine on religious vocation.’” —The Catholic Educator “A valuable aid to directors, an immense help to the young themselves” Hardcover
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