THE WORLD DOES NOT HONOR THE HOUSEWIFE, SO WE MUST
The word “vocation” gets sort of abused by both the world and in Churchy-talk. In the Church we use it to refer only in the sense of the objective states in life of marriage and the priesthood or religious life. In the world, it usually refers just to a specific skill or job, usually one of humble estate – a “vocational school” is where kids go that want to get to work and maybe not enter full-on academia. This is often a class matter, or looked down on, as The Charlie Daniel’s Band put so poetically in Long Haired Country Boy: “The rich man goes to college/ The poor man goes to work.”
There’s more to the word vocation than the job on the lower end, and the divine calling and path to salvation on the higher end. There’s an intermingling of the two in the reality of our lives, in between the soil and the heavens. For many of us married men, we very often fight to keep them more integrated, because our higher calling is in our home …More