VOCATIONS EXPLAINED

MATRIMONY, VIRGINITY,
THE RELIGIOUS STATE, AND THE
PRIESTHOOD.

BY A

VINCENTIAN FATHER.

AN ABRIDGMENT OF

"QUESTIONS ON VOCATIONS"

APPROVED BY

CARDINAL GIBBONS AND CARDINAL SATOLLI.

Published with the permission of the SuperiorGeneral of the Congregation of the Mission.

NEW YORK, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO:
BENZINGER BROTHERS,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.

"Vocations Explained"

is a compendium of "Questions on Vocations," a catechism approvedby His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons; His Eminence Cardinal Satolli;by five Archbishops and twenty-two Bishops; also by numerouspriests and religious Brothers and Sisters.

Nihil Obatat
THOS. L. KINKEAD,
Censor Librorum.

Imprimatur
cross MICHAEL AUGUSTINE,
Archbishop of New York.

NEW YORK, March 2, 1897.

CONTENTS.

I.	DEFINITION.—EVERY PERSON HAS SOME SPECIAL VOCATION
II.	NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING A VOCATION
III.	MATRIMONY—IS IT A VOCATION?
IV.	MIXED MARRIAGES
V.	VIRGINITY
VI.	THE THREE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS 1. Poverty 2. Perpetual Chastity 3. Obedience
VII.	THE RELIGIOUS STATE
VIII.	MARKS OF A VOCATION TO THE RELIGIOUS STATE
IX.	DOUBTS ABOUT A VOCATION TO THE RELIGIOUS STATE
X.	ENCOURAGING OTHERS TO ENTER THE RELIGIOUS STATE
XI.	MEANS OF PRESERVING A VOCATION TO THE RELIGIOUS STATE.—SOME OBSTACLES
XII.	CHILDREN AND THE RELIGIOUS STATE
XIII.	DUTY O ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!