Amalia, commenting on her parents’ opposition to her call to religious life and to her choosing the nursing profession, states: “My parents, pious though they were, but likewise familiar with…many matters of secondary importance because of their rank among government officials, had no idea of what they were asking of me nor to what great sacrifices they condemned me by their coercive measures” (Letter to Pankratius von Dinkel, Bishop of Augsburg, September 1881). What might Amalia say of today’s parents, grandparents, young people: are they, too, so “familiar with matters of secondary importance” that God’s will is not heard or not sought or not considered in terms of choosing a career or a state in life? Can young people of today count on their parents and grandparents to help them search for God's will in terms of what careers and what state in life they choose for themselves?
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