How to Discern God's Will (and Your Vocation) w/ Fr. Vincent Yeager

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 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!

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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.
0:03.2	Yaga. Yes. Like the beer. I like the pilot. What? What does that mean? So Chuck Yeager was actually
0:09.2	a US pilot who broke the sound barrier. Oh well. Yeah. Related. Probably because it's spelled
0:14.5	the same. Okay. I don't know the direct connection. I go with yes. Just like definitely.
0:18.4	Well, it's nice to have you on the show. Yeah. You are a TOR. I am. You have third order
0:22.5	regular French-ISKIN. Okay. Fantastic. Fantastic. And when did you become a priest? So I became
0:27.3	a priest in 2018. So two and a half years now. Okay. Where did you grow up? Central Pennsylvania.
0:32.4	Oh, okay. So not too far. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of in the Western hill country of Pennsylvania,
0:38.0	if you could call it that. Okay. Very much a Catholic area. How many how many provinces is that what
0:43.2	you call them of the of your order in the country? In the US we have two. Actually, there are four
0:48.7	represented, but two are sort of missionary type work. So we have our province, the province,
0:54.1	the sacred part of Jesus, the immaculate conception province, and then there's one of the Indian
0:59.3	provinces has a priest in Texas who's working there and then the Mexican vice province also in
1:05.1	Texas. Is there a reason you chose the TOR's over different branch of Franciscans? Well, the first
1:09.5	thing was just the fact that I got to know the friars when I was going through my formation process.
1:14.6	So our home base is in central Pennsylvania about 20 minutes from where I grew up. Yeah. But then
1:19.2	it really come to realize that it very much fits who I am. Okay. So you didn't kind of shop
1:24.4	around as it were. Not too much. Yeah. Very good. Well, today we're going to talk about discerning
1:28.7	God's will, discerning our vocations. This is going to be an interesting topic. We got some people
1:34.3	on the live stream who were saying things like this. I literally just googled how to discerne God's
1:39.3	will two minutes ago and now I get this notification. Here we go. I'm sitting here wondering what I'm
1:44.8	going to do with my life and I just happen to catch this just as it's starting. This is real time.
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