“He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in his solitude——if that other Immensurable Loneliness which was God stretched forth Its hand to touch his own tiny human loneliness and to mark his vocation there.” LonelinessSolitudeVocation Author:Walter M. Miller Jr.
“M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.” CallingVocationPriesthoodOrdinationRoman CatholicismBlacktoothEpiscopacy Book:Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Source: Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman