Discernment. What is discernment?
Discernment is a process by which we are helped to come to a decision. This is very important to remember and consider when it comes to making life choices. Discern your vocation as person...
Do you need/desire/want to get married? Do you want a spouse? Children of your own? Family gathering once or twice a year? Are you ready to hold your ego and put the family at first? Are you tired of finding someone to company you to the party? Are you afraid of sleeping alone at night? You hate going home to an empty place? Or you think your clock is tickling and you need to release it urgently? If most your answers to those questions are ‘yes’ then yes! you need to get married.
Do you need/desire/want to stay single? Do you love your freedom above everything? You don’t mind going to the party alone? Are you an avid traveller and wanderlust? You love going places? Do you have a carrier=job that is not suited for a family type kind-a-person? Do you love being with your friends and party all night with them? Do you like your own good-sleep after a busy day? Are you happy with your life now eventhough you haven’t been in relationship for the last 10 years? You are okay of being alone in the park where most lovers are? If your answers are mostly yes to those question then a single life is probably what fit you best.
When it comes to a calling for celibacy, I’m not able to describe further about that in here because each individual has his/her own unique experience of this kind of calling. I read a book about ‘calling and chosen’ and I was mesmerized by the story of the priests whom were called and chosen; their beautiful journey to reach and search God’s will in them is something that only few people has it.
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I walked around in the complex after lunch. Campion has a big huge garden and labyrinth which can use for personal prayer and contemplation.
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The Rosary that I’m going to say tonight is The Mystery of Salvation (Jesus taught Nicodemus, A Good Shepherd, The Rich Man and The Kingdom of God, Jesus the Real Vine, and The Final Judgement). This will be my fifth day...
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Review of the day:
God has determined... that I should reach that which is my greatest happiness.
~Cardinal Newman
A prayer for discernment ~ Thomas Merton
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road.
Though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me.
And you will never leave me to face my struggles alone.I am going there... to my greatest happiness
Readings of the day:
o Deuteronomy 30:19. Choose life.
o Matthew 7:21. “Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do what my father in heaven wants them to do.
o 1 Corinthians 10:31. “Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God’s glory.”
Sources:
o Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals, Today’s English Version. Philippine Bible Society, Manila, 1992.
o Lelen, J. M., Rev., Ph.D. Pray The Rosary. Catholic Book Publishing Corp, New Jersey, 2002.
o London, Larry. Doa Rosario Tujuh Hari, Berdasarkan Kitab Suci (Edisi Bahasa Indonesia). Penerbit OBOR, Jakarta, 2003.
o http://www.ozvocations.catholic.org.au
