After my recent post on marriage, the vocations crisis, etc., I remembered that I also originally meant to link to this commentary written some time ago by Dr. Jeff Mirus on marriage as "the forgotten vocation." I pretty much took for granted in my post the goodness and importance of marriage as a call to holiness, focusing instead on what strike me as related problematic approaches to vocations and vocational discernment. Anyway, this piece by Mirus seemed to me to be a really good short treatment of the foundational nature of marriage as a vocation.