Fifth Sunday of the Year
Is 6:1-8; 1 Cor 15:1-11; Luke 5:1-11 (Year C)
In the language of the secular world, the word "vocation" refers to a personal choice. In a very loose sense, it is used to describe the life choices that we make and the careers we choose to follow.
Throughout the Scriptures, and for those of faith, vocation is centred in the God who calls, and can only be understood as our response to the God who not only calls, but also enables our response.
The discernment of God's calling, whatever our vocation might be, is rarely a sudden and unexpected insight. For most, it flows from a lifelong attentiveness to God’s loving presence in every detail of our lives. Mundane though our lives might be, such discernment will follow the steps that underpin the vision of the prophet Isaiah’s call: "I saw the Lord seated on a high throne. Above him stood seraphs, each with six wings. And they cried out to one another in this way. 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. His glory fills the whole earth.'"
