Lay Ministry: Passion vs. Romantic Notion
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How do you know if something is truly your calling or just a compelling idea? Jeff explores how to discern your place in the Church by identifying the difference between a genuine passion and a romantic notion. Many people feel drawn to roles like writing, speaking, or ministry, but not every attraction is a calling. Through Scripture and practical wisdom, we can discover our gifts, cultivate them, and put them into action in a way that serves God and others.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.6 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.5 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 479, lay ministry, passion, or romantic notion. |
| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the show again this week. I'm Jeff Kavans. Thank you for joining me. You know, over the last |
| 0:40.6 | number of years, I have had so many college students from some of the real reputable Catholic |
| 0:47.7 | colleges around the country, emailing me and asking me a particular question that I thought I would |
| 0:53.3 | bring up today for you, because |
| 0:55.3 | you might be asking that same question as well. And that is, what am I called to? What can I get |
| 1:01.9 | involved in? How do I know my gift? And how do I cultivate it? And so I thought I would take a week |
| 1:09.0 | just to talk about that a little bit because I've written a lot of |
| 1:12.9 | emails and talked to a lot of young people. And I started noticing kind of a pattern at times when people |
| 1:20.9 | were asking that question of what am I going to do? They may write to me and say, I feel like I'm called |
| 1:26.7 | to be a writer. I feel like I'm called to be a writer. I feel like |
| 1:28.2 | I'm called to be a podcaster. And this is all a little bit different than, you know, the |
| 1:34.0 | vocation to priesthood or the diaconate or to religious life. This is really geared towards |
| 1:39.8 | laymen that are interested in getting involved. Something happened. They had a conversion experience, |
| 1:46.8 | and they started to see other people involved in apostolets, or what I'll call for the sake of this |
| 1:53.3 | podcast, lay ministries. And they will say, well, I feel like I'm called to be a writer, |
| 1:59.1 | I'm called to be, you know, a missionary, |
| 2:02.5 | or I want to get involved in men's ministry, or women's ministry. So I thought to talk a little |
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