Maybe We're not Crazy!

In an article in the Boston Pilot, Cardinal Sean O'Malley is reported to have told a group of Boston College students,

"Catholics are called to live their lives with a sense of vocation."

One woman at the event asked, “For those of us who aren’t called into the religious life, what would you recommend for us to do? I look around the room, and I know a lot of us are interested in serving in different ways but are kind of unsure of how that fits into the Church and developing the Church as the body of Christ.”

Every Catholic is called to holiness and to the communal mission of the Church, Cardinal O’Malley responded.

“Even our career choices have to be informed by that desire to serve God and serve the community,” he said. “Every single one of us has a calling in life that we must prayerfully discern and generously and courageously embrace in our lives if we’re going to make a difference.”

The laity is called to engage in public life, transform society with the values of the Gospel and witness to God’s love, he said.

Sounds like we're on the same page as the Cardinal. We must be reading the same documents!

By the way, the Cardinal has a blog, too, at http://cardinalseansblog.org/