Giving Your Life to Others

Marriage & Consecrated Life: Similarities

Opening article - https://catholicbusinessjournal.biz/p/59. Read & Discuss

What are you willing to give your life for?

Marriage & Consecrated Life

Both:•Help us in our call to

holiness; to be the Best-Version-of-Ourselves

•Require a “Dying to Self” in service of others

Marriage & Consecrated Life

Both:•Require loving God first

and foremost•Marriage does this by

giving the love you have with God to your family

Marriage & Consecrated Life

● Consecrated life does this by giving the love you have with God to the Church

How do you know what you’re called to?● God speaks to the deepest desires of our

hearts and calls us to one of these vocations

● Youtube: Wright’s Law

Marriage & Consecrated Life

Questions:

1. We often think of the priesthood or religious life as a life of total sacrifice. In the video, you see that the man is married. How is his life a total sacrifice of himself for others?

2. Do you think it’s better to give or receive? Explain.

Questions:

3. When you assess the way you live your life, what are you contributing your time, efforts,

and energy towards? 4. Is your answer to #3 making you happy? Is it making you a better person?