Can an unimportant ordinary person have a vocation?

[MarysLittleFlower]

​Why on earth are people down-voting my post? I'm afraid there is confusion as to what I was talking about. I was refuting a specific line that Mary wrote in her post, not Saint Faustina herself. If you look at my original post, I bold the line that I was speaking about specifically. For the sake of easiness, I will quote it here:
"A religious vocation has nothing about impressing people... Its a vocational to be hidden with Christ on the Cross."

That line of being hidden with Christ on the Cross only makes sense in a cloistered context. And it isn't a line Saint Faustina wrote, it's something the poster said, so I'm free to disagree with it. 
 

I understood what you meant ​I think it can apply to any Sister but that's just my understanding. I think it applies most directly to cloistered religious and yes they are more hidden... But I think the heart and sacrifice of any Sister is not fully known to the world, she serves all but she lives for Jesus alone.

Edited June 1, 2015 by MarysLittleFlower

[PhuturePriest]

I understood what you meant ​I think it can apply to any Sister religious but that's just my understanding.

​Fixed.

[MarysLittleFlower]

​Fixed.

Lol ok

[BarbTherese]

But I think the heart and sacrifice of any Sister is not fully known to the world, she serves all but she lives for Jesus alone.

​I agree that it applies to any religious, active or cloistered.

[LaPetiteSoeur]

As others have said, everyone has a vocation, to married, single or religious life. It is very easy to make an idol of "being holy"--or being perceived as such. Focusing on your relationship with God and with your community is always a good way to fulfill God's commandment to love one another without flashy displays of piety. I am reminded of Luke 18:9-14. 

All religious are ordinary people. They have hobbies and loves and faults and are imperfect creations of God--just like the laity.