Questions pertaining to marriage - Page 4

Sillara · #46 Jun 23, '12, 6:19 pm

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Originally Posted by superamazingman

Good advise, but isn't the unconsecrated single life not a long-term vocation, and shouldn't we be striving to enter our long-term vocations? I mean if you're not called to be married, then you can become a consecrated virgin, but I know somewhere in one of JPII's documents he explained that the unconsecrated single life not a "capital V" vocation (like marriage or priesthood).

Could you please point me to this? I have always read that this was the case, but I wanted to find JPII's writings on it.

superamazingman · #47 Jun 23, '12, 8:14 pm

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Originally Posted by Sillara

Could you please point me to this? I have always read that this was the case, but I wanted to find JPII's writings on it.

I don't have the time to right now, but I think it might have been in one of his letters/documents that were to/about women. Let me know if you find it!