# Unconditional Love in a Vocation, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

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Podcast: [Sermons of Fr Paul Robinson SSPX](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sermons-of-fr-paul-robinson-sspx-1384279)
Published: 2026-07-13T15:58:31+00:00
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God is in the business of showing His creatures unconditional love, and this will never change. It is part of His very being. God can only be good to us, because He is goodness itself. God can only love us, because He is love itself. We learn from the first chapter of Genesis that God created us in His own image. “Let us make man to our image and likeness”, God says to Himself. This not only indicates what God made us to be; it also indicates what we must strive to be. We are made in the likeness of God, but we must also strive to hard to be like God. What I am going to claim in this sermon is that we especially do that through the pursuit of our vocation, whether that be the priesthood, the religious life, or the married life. Unconditional love in a vocation There is a special quality in a vocation, in that it demands of us unconditional love. We are required to commit ourselves up front to pursue a certain path for the rest of our lives, to stay on that path and never deviate from it. This is what married couples do when they exchange vows before the altar; this is what religious do when they make their perpetual vows; this is what a priest does when he is ordained. These vocations require unconditional love because of the fact that they do not know up front all that their vocation is going to require of them. They make a commitment up front to be faithful to a path but they do not know all that is on that path. Spouses, for instance, tell one another that they are going to stay by one another for life, no matter what happens in the future. If one of them gets cancer, if their house burns down and they lose their life savings, if they have quadruplets, no matter what, they will stick together. Spouses offer this unconditional love to one another when they marry. Pri…

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