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The Goal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Extract

Renewed interest in the problem of God's vocation has recently been awakened by the autobiographical sketch of a woman who lived as a nun but ‘without a vocation’ for twenty-eight years before metaphorically ‘leaping over the wall’ to return to the world. Many individuals have experienced the problem for themselves in trying to find out what it is that God wants them to do. ‘What is my vocation?’ a young man or woman will ask, and he will spend many months investigating avenues which may be according to the divine plan which is so very difficult to discern. The difficulty is often based on a false interpretation of a true doctrine.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1950 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 I Leap Over the Wall. By Monica Baldwin.

2 All this is enlarged upon very subtly by Mother Julian and the reader may refer in particular to chapters 57-60. It is of interest to note her conclusion from this that Wisdom is a maternal quality.