Homily for the Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Eighth Grade Vocations Mass
April 23, 2026
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Acts 8:26-40
Psalm 66:8-9, 16-17, 20
John 10:11-18
We all need to earn money to live, but money cannot satisfy our deepest desires. A true vocation has nothing to do with money because it comes from love. Most people are called to love another person in Holy Matrimony, and then husbands and wives love their children. That kind of love cannot be bought. And other men and women are called to love without being married, and they become priests and religious sisters. That kind of love cannot be bought either. Vocations, either to married life or priesthood and religious life, cannot be bought just as Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd teaches us: someone who works because of a desire for money is not following a call from God.
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