prayer & discernment Father Andrew Carl Wisdom, O.P. embraces his father at his ordination in Rome.
How to stay open to God’s call Discerning a vocation is about trusting in what God, who knows you best, wants to give you through your life.
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Father Andrew Carl Wisdom, O.P.
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s there such a thing as “spiritual genetics,” a spiritual gene that can be passed on? I wondered that as I made my way through the stream of students in the high school my father had attended. Here I was a priest and vocation director walking with young men discerning a religious vocation through the same labyrinth of hallways that my father had passed through 55 Father Andrew Carl Wisdom, O.P. is promoter of vocations and vicar for Mission Advancement for the Dominicans, Province of St. Albert the Great. His book, Tuning into God’s Call, was published last July by Liguori Publications.
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years earlier, dreaming about being a priest. He had been firmly resolved to be a priest ever since early childhood, even leaving his senior year behind to enter seminary so as not to waste another minute delaying his vocation. But after a year and several months, an increasingly unpredictable asthmatic condition persuaded the seminary faculty that he could not pursue a vocation to the priesthood. He was devastated and confused to say the least. Did God not want what he wanted? After all, wasn’t it God’s will that he was following? As determined as my father was to become a priest, I was determined not to be. While he had run toward his poten-
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