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 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    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*''