Deacon Brett Mills writes that the vocation of the heart comes first and that it, along with the church and the world, bring us closer to God, according to a church bulletin for Blessed Mother Catholic Church in Owensboro, Kentucky.

"Yves Congar was a key theologian in shaping the Second Vatican Council," Mills wrote in the bulletin. "He expressed three contexts that can give each person multiple senses of vocational meaning."

Congar's first context is the heart, and Mills said people first have a vocation by heart to strive for a personal relationship with God.

"People first have a vocation by heart to a personal relationship with God, who calls all people to Himself," Mills wrote. "Vocation in the heart expresses the willingness to be prophetic and to order self to God's Kingdom as a steward of that kingship."

The church is the second vocational meaning, with Mills writing that in the priesthood, the call to give your life completely to God is also important.

"Congar's third vocational context is the world," Mills wrote. "Vocation in the world domesticates the Life of Grace with and in God."

Mills wrote that the heart is necessarily first, but that the three work together to be closer to God.