The divine invitation respects human freedom
and elicits a personal and wholehearted response.
Gazing with a loving look into the secret recesses of the heart (Redemptionis Donum, 3), Jesus calls whom He wills to “be with Him” (Mark 3:14) in an intimate and radical manner through the gift of a religious vocation. This divine invitation respects human freedom (Code of Canon Law, 219) and elicits from the one called a personal response of wholehearted surrender after the likeness of the fiat of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Some practical pointers on how to discern a vocation to religious life.