SECTION 2: COUNSELS PERTAINING TO THE CUSTOS’ VOCATION | Rule 2

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Section 2 | Rule #2: Regarding the Analogous Nature of the Custos’ Vocation

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Let the Custos understand and interpret the relationships, daily responsibilities, obligations, services, trials–in a word, all that constitutes his vocational role and responsibility–as the analogy of the bridegroom and the analogy of fatherhood.

As a theatrical drama, or a fictional novel, often expresses an analogy to cement a proposed theory or concept in a person’s mind in a memorable way, so God uses a man’s vocation as husband and father to communicate essential divine truths that draw him more deeply into the mysteries of God’s fatherhood and the mystical marriage of Christ and His Church.

The word vocation is drawn from the Latin root word Vox, meaning voice. Through the vocation of being a husband and father, the Custos becomes capable of discerning the voice, the Word of God, especially regarding God’s fatherhood and Christ’s marriage to His Church. Let the Custos understand that God speaks through analogies, and that by comparing his human fatherhood to God’s fatherhood, and his role as a husband to that of Christ the Bridegroom, he will derive great insight regarding God’s love and how to love as God.

God always, by means of this analogy sustains, nourishes, encourages, and blesses the Custos in his vocation, instilling within him an unwavering trust in God, essential wisdom, certain hope in heaven, and an ever-flowing charity towards God and his neighbor.