Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Vocation in the Second Half of Your Life

When I was a college chaplain, the weekend in late August when parents dropped off their children for the schoolyear always presented an interesting pastoral opportunity. While gathered on campus for Mass, these parents formed a select congregation: All were at the same stage in life, a point of transition from being parents of children to being parents of adults. They were on the precipice of a spiritual crisis—and a vocational crisis—that nobody talks about and which they did not see coming.

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