The single life is a sacred vocation - and it’s more fulfilling than our culture leads you to believe said Nick Ripatrazone.

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Many Catholic young women and men are taught to pray about and discern their vocations – whether called to marriage, to the religious life, to the priesthood or consecrated widow or virgin.  

 

The lay single individual can feel left out but in fact, the dedicated single life is a call from God to make a gift of your person to Him and to His Church while still living in the world as a layperson, dedicating your life to service of others and to making the church and the world a better place.

 

feeling that they are in a vocational limbo of sorts, and it's become a topic of much heated and emotional debate in the Catholic blogosphere: have these people missed their vocation? The lay single state is a chosen vocation and not a default vocation in the Church. 

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