How to Discern God's Will and Your Vocation (Fr. Vincent Yeager) | Ep. 273

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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In this episode, I chat with Fr. Vincent Yeager, a Franciscan priest, and vocations director, about how to find your vocation. We share tips and examples from our own journeys — his as a priest and mine as a married man — and we discuss: - Whether you can choose the wrong vocation - How to recognize signs from God - Small "v" vocations and big "V" vocations - What to do when you're attracted to two different vocations - Five keys to discernment you need to know If you've been wondering about your vocation in life (or know someone who is), this is the episode for you! Download my FREE ebook, "You Can Understand Aquinas," now! SPONSORS Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ Homeschool Connections: https://homeschoolconnections.com/matt/ GIVING Patreon or Directly: https://pintswithaquinas.com/support/ This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer co-producer of the show. LINKS Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ SOCIAL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd Gab: https://gab.com/mattfradd Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/pintswithaquinas MY BOOKS Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx CONTACT Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nice to have you on the show. Thank you so much for being here. Glad to be here.
0:02.0	Jaeger? Yes. Like the beer? Like the pilot. What does that mean? So Chuck Yeager was actually an U.S. pilot who broke the sound barrier. Oh, well. Related? Probably, because it's spelled the same. But I don't know the direct answer. I'd go with yes. Just like definitely. Well, it's nice to have you on the show. You are a T-O-R. I am. Yeah, third order regular Franciscan.
0:22.1	Okay, fantastic. Fantastic. And when did you become a priest? So,
0:29.0	two and a half years now. Okay. Where did you grow up? Central Pennsylvania. Oh, okay. So not too
0:33.5	far. Yeah, yeah. Sort of in the western hill country of Pennsylvania, if you could call
0:38.5	it that, and very much a Catholic area. How many, how many provinces, is that what you call
0:43.5	them of the, of your order in the country? In the US, we have two. Well, actually, there are
0:48.1	four represented, but two are sort of missionary type work. So we have our province, the province of the sacred heart of Jesus,
0:55.5	we have the Immaculate Conception province, and then there's one of the Indian provinces,
1:00.2	has a priest in Texas who's working there, and then the Mexican vice province, also in Texas.
1:05.4	Is there a reason you chose the T.O.O.O.S over a different branch of Franciscans?
1:08.8	Well, the first thing was just the fact that I got to know the friars when I was going through my formation process. So our home base is in central Pennsylvania, about 20 minutes from where I grew up. Yeah. But then it have really come to realize that it very much fits who I am. Okay. So you didn't kind of shop around as it were. Not too much. Yeah, very good. Well, today we want to talk about
1:28.2	discerning God's will, discerning our vocations. This is going to be an interesting topic. We got
1:34.0	some people in the live stream who were saying things like this. I literally just Googled how to
1:38.7	discern God's will two minutes ago and now I get this notification. Here we go. I'm sitting here wondering what I'm going to do with my life and I just happened to catch this just as it's starting.
1:48.9	This is real time happening right now.
1:51.3	Yeah.
1:53.2	This guy says, I'm in the middle of a 54 hour fast so this episode is perfect timing.
1:59.1	This is wonderful.
2:00.5	This guy says, that's stash. or you would say stash, I guess, rocking it, crushing it.
2:07.3	Yeah, cool, so this is fantastic.
2:09.4	Where do we want to begin?
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