Faith that is not put into practice is sterile. Connecting the themes of the previous webinars we will explore how the faithful participate in the Church’s mission in the world through their particular gifts and calling. This is the fifth in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship.

4. Jonathan F. Sullivan
Director of
Catechetical Services,
Diocese of Springfield
in Illinois
Originally from
Kansas City
Married, 6 (+1)
children
www.JonathanFSullivan.co
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5. A few reminders…
 This series will not
just be
“information
delivery”
 More personal,
reflective
 Opportunities to
respond – so
please participate!

6. Overview
10/13: Jesus
10/20: Scripture & Tradition
10/27: Christian Community
11/3: Liturgy & Prayer
11/10: Vocation & Mission

8. VOCATION

9. Vocation
Vocare – to call
Three types of vocation
Common Christian vocation
State-in-Life
Personal Vocation

10. Common Christian Vocation
 Holiness!
 Vatican II: Universal
Call to Holiness

11. State-in-Life
 Clergy
 Bishops
 Priests
 Deacons
“Principally and
expressly ordained to
the sacred ministry”

12. State-in-Life
 Consecrated
Religious
 Monastic
 Mendicant
“Give outstanding and
striking testimony that
the world cannot be
transfigured and
offered to God without
the spirit of the
Beatitudes”

13. State-in-Life
 Laity
 Marriage
 Single Life?
“It belongs to the laity
to seek the kingdom of
God by engaging in
temporal affairs and
directing them
according to God’s
will.”

14. Personal Vocation
“Unique combination of commitments,
relationships, obligations,
opportunities, strengths, and
weaknesses that a particular
individual who is trying to know,
accept, and do God’s will uses as the
material of his or her life living out the
common Christian vocation and a
state in life.”
- Russell Shaw, Catholic Laity in the
Mission of the Church

15. Question:
 If asked, how
would you
describe your
personal
vocation?

16. Charisms
 Gifts of the Holy
Spirit
 Differ from natural
talents and
strengths
 Given to build up the
Kingdom
 Many different types
of charisms

17. Discernment
Process by which we discern
God’s will
Clues:
Pull of the heart
Affirmation of others/the community
Observable results
Congruence with Church teaching

18. MISSION

19. Evangelization
 “[The Church] exists
in order to
evangelize.” – Pope
Paul VI
 Community Context

20. Witness and Proclamation
“[E]ven the finest witness will prove ineffective in
the long run if it is not explained, justified - what
Peter called always having "your answer ready for
people who ask you the reason for the hope that
you all have" - and made explicit by a clear and
unequivocal proclamation of the Lord Jesus. The
Good News proclaimed by the witness of life
sooner or later has to be proclaimed by the word
of life. There is no true evangelization if the name,
the teaching, the life, the promises, the kingdom
and the mystery of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of
God are not proclaimed.
- Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi no. 22

21. Witness
Photo by Jesslee
Cuizon under a CC-BY
license.

22. Proclamation
Photo by spDuchamp
under a CC-BY license.

23. Works of Mercy
Corporal Spiritual
1. To feed the hungry
2. To give drink to the
thirsty
3. To clothe the naked
4. To shelter the
homeless
5. To visit the sick
6. To visit the
imprisoned
To bury the dead
1. To instruct the
ignorant
2. To counsel the
doubtful
3. To admonish sinners
4. To bear wrongs
patiently
5. To forgive offences
willingly
6. To comfort the
afflicted
7. To pray for the living

26. Questions:
 What aspect of
the Church’s
mission speaks to
you?
 How have you
participated in
evangelization or
the Works of
Mercy?

27. Q&A

28. Video and slides available tomorrow at
bit.ly/BetterDisciple