Prayers for Family & Vocation
A Prayer for Discerning My Vocation
A contemporary prayer of discernment shaped by Ignatian spirituality, particularly the Principle and Foundation of the Spiritual Exercises and its call to holy indifference.
Lord, you called fishermen off a beach and a tax collector from his table, and they knew your voice.
I am listening, and I am not certain.
Quiet the voices that are only fear or ambition dressed as guidance.
Show me where my deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Give me freedom from every attachment that would decide this for me.
Whatever you ask — marriage, ministry, single life, this work or that — give me the grace to say yes before I know the cost. Amen.
Contemporary prayer in the Ignatian discernment tradition
About the prayer
The phrase about deep gladness echoes Frederick Buechner's well-known description of vocation.
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