noun
definition
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
definition
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
Examples of vocation in a Sentence
The vocation of the student could find fulfilment only in the religious orders.
My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice.
He studied both law and medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself a champion of the most advanced opinions.
Hence came his " conversion," and the sense of vocation for the ministry which impelled him in 1822 to enter Manchester College, then lodged at York.
His astronomical vocation, like that of Kepler, came from without.
He was uncertain at first what vocation to choose, and vacillated between business, the ministry, medicine and law.
It was not a suitable vocation, and he gladly accepted the rectorship of the Aegidien-gymnasiurn in Nuremberg, a post which he held from December 1808 to August 1816.
In Ma vocation sociale (1908) he wrote an explanation and justification of his career.
His father showed some of his drawings to an acquaintance, Andrea del Verrocchio, who at once recognized the boy's artistic vocation, and was selected by Ser Piero to be his master.
The time of respite had been wasted, all attempts at national reformation had failed; how should Yahweh spare a nation which had shown no tokens of fitness to discharge the vocation of Yahweh's people ?
Petrarch remained true to the instinct of his own vocation, and had no intention of sacrificing his studies and his glory to ecclesiastical ambition.
He had no vocation, and was an example of the worldly, political and martial prelates of the 15th century.
He had become possessed with the idea of addressing wider circles and of forming an order whose vocation should be to preach and missionize throughout the whole world.
We here observe a great advance in the vocation of the prophet.
A meeting at which he was present after his return to Paris decided his vocation.
But if you look for the use of the word ' vocation ' in an NHS document the picture is very different.
Claviere called his attention to the Wealth of Nations, and the study of that work revealed to him his vocation.
His work in founding the kingdom was a personal vocation, the spirit of which He communicates to believers, "thus, as exalted king," sustaining the life of His Kingdom.
But it is Christ's resurrection, the divine vindication of his total obedience to his priestly vocation, which carries liberating power.
But her political ardour was short-lived; she cared little about forms of government, and, when the days of June dashed to the ground her hopes of social regeneration, she quitted once for all the field of politics and returned to her quiet country ways and her true vocation as an interpreter of nature, a spiritualizer of the commonest sights of earth and the homeliest household affections.
The records of the lives of holy people of our times must also include those who have lived their Christian vocation fully.
My vocation in life was to turn the hobby into a career.
Eachard attributed the contempt into which the clergy had fallen to their imperfect education, their insufficient incomes, and the want of a true vocation.
Its distinctive feature was the systematic training of nurses for their vocation.
His vocation for literature was assisted by his tutor, the poet Johan Magnus Stjernstolpe (1777-1831), whose works he edited.
Bodily infirmity, combined with mental aptitude, were eventually considered to indicate a theological vocation; he was, in 1584, placed at the seminary of Adelberg, and thence removed, two years later, to that of Maulbronn.
For some years his influence in Russia was a living force, the circulation of his writings was a vocation zealously pursued.
But his public lessons were ill attended, and he soon fell back upon his old vocation of publisher under the patronage of a new pope, Clement VIII.
At the age of nineteen he returned to his father's house, and, making a rough attempt at a hermit's dress out of two kirtles of his sister's and a hood belonging to his father, he ran away to follow the religious vocation.
The whole family seems, indeed, to have worn a character of austerity and dignity, and when Millet's father finally decided to test the vocation of his son as an artist, it was with a gravity and authority which recalls the patriarchal households of Calvinist France.
But before old age came on him, Boudin's father abandoned seafaring, and the son gave it up too, having of course no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character, - frankness, accessibility, open-heartedness.
For two generations they seem to have absorbed into their ranks all the most active and energetic of those who felt a clerical vocation.
Conscience, as the subjective expression of the presupposed identity of reason and nature in their bases, guarantees the practicability of our moral vocation.
Isn't the world of the corporation the very antithesis of the poet's vocation?
He started as a comedy magician but soon realized that being a comic is his true vocation.
He is also keen to help recently retired men and women, and those contemplating retirement, to renew their sense of vocation.
Religious Ministries Website for Catholic men and women interested in pursuing a religious vocation.
We also provide some students with start-up toolkits to launch their chosen vocation.
In 2003, the theme, ' Teaching is for Life ', explored the vocation to teach.
Vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation Sunday also sees the national launch of posters, leaflets and prayer cards to promote the specific vocation to the Diocesan priesthood.
Fischer said, My priestly vocation, the source of my happiness, I owe to almighty God.
You will need to attend a work placement in your chosen vocation.
One may say of him, what Auden said of Cavafy, that his attitude toward poetic vocation was an aristocratic one.
In the mission field he found his true vocation.
The Reformers gave great emphasis to the fact that each person's labor is a divine vocation or calling.
The strength of the experiential interpretation of the missionary vocation is also under-estimated.
Though Comte's character and aims were as far removed as possible from Franklin's type, neither Franklin nor any man that ever lived could surpass him in the heroic tenacity with which, in the face of a thousand obstacles, he pursued his own ideal of a vocation.
Their vocation, too, is gone.
Far more difficult and risky to attempt to help would-be teachers develop a vocation for their profession.
But it is Christ 's resurrection, the divine vindication of his total obedience to his priestly vocation, which carries liberating power.