God's calling plenty of young men to the priesthood and plenty of young women to religious life. But they don't answer because they can't hear . . . And that's because all of us, in a way, have forgotten our primary vocation to be missionaries, beginning within the family itself. And it reminds me of our own prayers for vocations. For 30 years in the United States we've been loudly begging the Lord to send us more priests.
Families have the much larger mission of being a leaven of the Gospel in the wider world.
In fact, we are all called to be missionaries. There are no exceptions. Evangelizing isn't something we can just delegate away to priests and nuns. It doesn't work like that. Married life and parenting are missionary vocations.