The Purification Of Motivation

[brandelynmarie]

I agree nunsense. :) Living in relationship with others can be messy & it can be beautiful...sometimes all t the same time! We are supposed to be wise as serpents & gentle as doves in our dealings with others & with ourselves. When troubles come, one must pray for the gift of Discernment & the grace to act in His Will. Easier said than done, I might add! :blush:

Edited September 15, 2013 by brandelynmarie

[God's Beloved]

Found an extract of VOCATION AND MOTIVATION
The Theories of Luigi Rulla 

 

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isfo.it%2Ffiles%2FFile%2FSegnalazioni%2FOn%2520Rulla.pdf&ei=o-01UrXGI8iLrQf8hIGoDA&usg=AFQjCNEXwt_dIRi3AH2hAYXYBo0M2hr9Mw&bvm=bv.52164340,d.bmk

 

Rulla defines Christian vocation as:
. . . the call of God to the human person so that the latter might
co-operate as a partner in the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31;
Ezekiel 36:26) which God willed to establish between Himself and
man [sic].
 

a second definition of vocation
offered by Rulla:

Every Christian is called to be a witness to a love that is selftranscendent
and centred on God, in other words to take as the
focus of his or her life the self-transcendent virtues which were
revealed and lived by Christ. The essence of Christian vocation is
to be transformed in Christ, so that one internalises his virtues to

the point of being able to say, ‘it is no longer I who live, but Christ
who lives in me’.

 

Contemporary Formation
Given this background, Rulla suggests that priestly and religious
formation should contain a further important component, over and
above the internalisation of the values associated with religious life:
people’s capacities should be extended and deepened through their
working through their psychological blocks. By working through their
unconscious inconsistencies, a person will be helped to grow in inner

freedom and maturity, to accept and internalise the values of religious
life, or alternatively to choose another form of Christian vocation, this
time in maturity. If this inner freedom and maturity are not there,
young priests and religious will simply identify themselves with their
vocational ideals, and adapt to conventional expectations and
customs, but without really internalising the values of religious life in a
process of spiritual growth.

 

 

The entire book wasn't there , but the extract is worth reflecting upon. Of course this would be applicable to consecrated life in general.

[God's Beloved]

http://www.fabc.org/fabc%20papers/fabc_paper_123.pdf

 

In the above link there is an article : Beneath and Beyond the Roman Collar and Habit : Motivations for Priestly and Religious Vocation. It presents two case studies with analysis of the conscious and unconscious motivations to vocation. Speaks about the gospel parable of the Wheat and the Weeds.