The Catholic Church throughout the United States celebrates Vocations Awareness Week each year during the first full week in November (Nov 3-9, 2024). This week is purposefully celebrated around the same time as All Saints Day, which calls to mind the universal call to holiness. Every person has a vocation to holiness - to love as God loves. On our Christian journey, many of us choose a vocation to marriage, priesthood, or consecrated life - a permanent state in life where we live out that holiness in a particular way through a total and irrevocable gift of ourselves.