What if you want to be both a singer and a nun?
Sue asks:
Hi I was just wondering if you have a big vocation, like if you want to be a singer and a nun how do you know what you want to be if you want to be both? and when.
Dear Sue,
We can approach the vocation question from two opposite directions. One is what WE think, feel, prefer, want. The other is what HE thinks, feels, prefers and wants. Your question can only be answered by making the leap to the second dimension or direction.
You already know you want to be both, but have the feeling it may not be possible to combine them. OK. That's as far as you can go from the direction you are taking, which is the first one, what you want. Now try the other.
How? You have to look into orders (you may already be interested in some particular one). As you visit or get to know them God will let you know in his own way where he is calling you. If your talent for music can be developed there, well and good. You have to find the place you are called and ask them where music would fit in, if it does.
Your singing may be used many ways to give glory to God, but you may be thinking of a career on stage. How much of that is just a dream? How much is a real possibility? Give priority to finding what God wants, don't leave the vocation aside for your music.
Fr. Anthony Bannon
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