Perhaps no component of our baptismal mission is more important or urgent today than our duty to help young people discern their vocation in life. I’m talking about something more than a job or occupation: a calling.
My family made a recent visit to the new museum at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland. I’ve always been drawn to St. Elizabeth’s story. I remember how it fascinated me as a child that she was both a mother and a nun, not to mention the first canonized saint born in our land.