Questions On Vocations
MATRIMONY, VIRGINITY, THE RELIGIOUS STATE, THE PRIESTHOOD
By a Priest of the Congregation of the Mission
(Founded by St. Vincent de Paul) Foreword of Cardinal Gibbons and Pope Leo XIII
Baltimore, MD., Oct. 14, 1911
No better preface could be written to this excellent little book than the words of Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., addressed to me on the 22d day of January, 1899, concerning the religious life.
J. CARD. GIBBONS.
Apostolic Letter of Our Most Holy Father, Leo XIII., to James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore.
(Letter follows in the book.)
Contents
Every Person has some Special Vocation—Necessity of Following
a Vocation—Matrimony: Is it a Vocation?—Mixed
Marriages: Appalling Results and Figures—Virginity—The
Three Evangelical Counsels—The Religious
State—Marks of a Vocation to the Religious State—Doubts
about a Vocation to the Religious State—Inducing
Others to enter the Religious State—Means of Preserving
a Vocation to the Religious State: Some
Obstacles—Children and the Religious State: Example*
