{"id":47051,"date":"2019-04-17T07:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=47051"},"modified":"2019-04-23T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:54:10","slug":"is-being-a-christian-a-vocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/17\/is-being-a-christian-a-vocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Being a Christian a Vocation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Each year, as we enter Holy Week, I inevitably recall\ntwo individuals for whom I continue to have a great amount of admiration. Both\nwere RCIA participants, and both\u2014a few days before the beginning of the Paschal\nTriduum\u2014declined to be baptized, and left the process. These two were separated\nby years and geography in my life, but I recall that both said they couldn\u2019t,\nin all honesty, publicly state that they held or accepted or believed\neverything that Catholic church teaches. In one case, I know it went deeper\u2014one\nparticipant couldn\u2019t accept the claims being made about Christ, and the\nnormativity and\/or exclusivity of belief in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My admiration for them comes from their refusal to be dishonest or hypocritical. Clearly they understood this was a huge step they were about to take (a credit to those RCIA teams), and couldn\u2019t bring themselves to commit to something so important when they truly didn\u2019t want to or couldn\u2019t keep that vow. I know that at least one of them was in RCIA as a marriage preparation \u201choop\u201d to go through, and the failure to be baptized ultimately led to the marriage not occurring. That individual would have ended up at the marriage rite in the category of \u201cbaptized non-believer\u201d (which I\u2019m sure any of us involved in marriage preparation have encountered).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my admittedly limited experience with the RCIA, the majority of those seeking Baptism or full communion were in the process either prior to a marriage, or (in fewer instances) after having been married a while. It is my understanding that roughly half of RCIA participants seeking either full communion or Baptism do so because of a future or current spouse, forming something of a link between the sacraments of initiation and vocation.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-Paschal-2019-261x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-Paschal-2019-261x400.jpg 261w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-Paschal-2019-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-Paschal-2019-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-Paschal-2019.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiation\/vocation link was brought to\nthe foreground again a couple years ago when I was speaking with the\ncollege-aged child of a friend\u2014another baptized non-believer, who referred to\nhaving been baptized as an infant as \u201cunjust,\u201d and compared it to an arranged\nmarriage. I shared recollections about the 1960s and 70s, a time that I was around\nthe same age, when the atheist\/activist Madalyn Murray O\u2019Hair gained\nnotoriety for offering \u201cunbaptism\u201d to those who felt it was a decision made for\nthem against their will. I learned during our conversation that there is a site\ncalled unbaptism.org still offering unbaptism certificates. All that gimmickry\naside, it was our conversation that led to me really reflecting\non the sacraments of initiation as sacraments of vocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it was traditional in many cultures (in some it still is) to arrange marriages when children are very young, and it was a custom in Roman Catholic households to promise a child (or two) to holy orders and\/or religious profession, in the U.S. these practices have largely ceased. A substantial aspect of the rites of marriage and ordination is that those entering into the sacramental state have made their own decision\/choice to do so. It would be the rare exception for parents to make these vocational commitments for their children today. And yet, they do so when it comes to the foundational, lifelong entry into the vocation of discipleship: Baptism.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-font5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47052\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-font5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/4-17-19-font5-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The role of parents (and godparents) in the baptismal rite can be viewed as doing this one among many good and healthy things that are done for children\u2014inoculations, balanced diet, schooling, and so on. The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/cclergy\/documents\/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_17041998_directory-for-catechesis_en.html\">General Directory for Catechesis<\/a><\/em> even states that the RCIA\u2019s baptismal catechumenate is to be the model for post-baptismal catechesis (#90). Yet even this good and healthy formational objective creates something of a conundrum: the process intended to bring an individual to the decision to enter into the Body of Christ through Baptism also becomes the process for those who have had that decision made for them. The goal, of course, is the same\u2014to help shape the lives of disciples to follow Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the difficulties experienced in dioceses attempting to do the restored order of the sacraments of initiation, or the resistance to infant communion even though infant Baptism (and its anointing) is commonplace, I know that to propose postponing all sacraments of initiation until adulthood would be a logistical and orthopraxis near-impossibility. Though children could be raised in an observant Roman Catholic household, part of that upbringing would be celebration of the Eucharist without reception of communion; difficult enough with a six- or seven-year-old, much less a twelve- or thirteen-year old. (You can find posts about the <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?s=restored+order&amp;id=m\">restored order<\/a> on the PrayTell blog, though the most recent one is from 2015.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow\nflippant are the saved!\u201d wrote Emily Dickinson in an 1875 letter. My intent\nhere is not to be dismissive of the gravity of the sacraments or rites of\ninitiation. Perhaps it would be good to recall that, from its very origins, one\nof the purposes of the RCIA has been for all of us who are already baptized to re-examine\nand renew our commitment to the discipleship and membership in the Body of\nChrist given to us. In a curious way, that memory of two people I mentioned at\nthe outset also does this for me\u2014anamnesis being a strong aspect of the\nTriduum. Not only do I still admire them, but they continue to inspire me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, as we enter Holy Week, I inevitably recall two individuals for whom I continue to have a great amount of admiration. 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