If asked the question “what religion are you?” I would typically respond that as a child I was baptized Catholic, I attended Catholic school for two years in elementary, and my family has always claimed Catholicism, however I never really experienced much practice, and as an adult I never felt that I could lay claim to something that I really didn’t understand.
In the text Brady talks about vocation in the narrow sense being a specific call a person might have to a certain life, lifestyle, or particular commitments. (p.40) I have always had faith in God, have always believed in him without any disregard, however I have never felt a sense of commitment to Catholicism. In that same aspect throughout my lifetime I have attended several types of churches never really calling one a home.
A few of the readings in both the Brady text and CTW really had an impact on me. The readings provided me with an insight into something that for many years I claimed to believe in without true understanding of what that belief stood for. Ironically after the readings I realized that inadvertently some of those ideas were my beliefs all along.
In Brady chapter 2, personalism, calls for the person to recognize their own uniqueness, their basic humanity, their individuality, and their fundamental relationships with others. This being the subjective internal side, however, personalism also has an objective external side. This side calls for the person to develop a keen sense of responsibility for their lives and the lives of others. These ideas are the foundation of personalism. (p. 36)
Brady expresses traditionally the two fundamental principles of personalism. First that we as persons treat all other hu ...