When I was a university student in the early 1970s I experienced a natural attraction to marriage, while at the same time sensing a call from the Lord to monastic life. But if I hadn’t become a monk, then in the language of the day, it would have meant I “didn’t have a vocation”, and would probably have got married.
So when I hear young Catholics talking about “discerning a vocation to marriage”, I realise that there’s been a quiet revolution in the way the Church speaks about marriage and that most Catholics haven’t noticed it happening.
