By LiCAS.news
SINGAPORE – Cardinal William Goh urged young Catholics to discern their vocations not as career choices but as deep and compelling calls from God.
Speaking at the Mass for the World Day for Consecrated Life early this month, he cautioned against weighing the pros and cons of different vocations based on material benefits.
“For many people, discernment is for them to see which is a better ‘job’ – will they have more benefits by being a priest or religious, or out in the world where they have greater freedom and resources to do what they want,” the prelate said.
Instead, he emphasized that a vocation is about recognizing God’s call so profoundly that one cannot refuse it.
“It’s so intimate and so compelling that we just surrender ourselves,” Catholic News SG, the official news site of the Church in Singapore, quoted the prelate.
Cardinal Goh delivered his message to an audience of approximately 120 religious priests, brothers, and sisters from 18 congregations, along with 650 lay faithful at the Blessed Sacrament Church, which the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary administers.
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