e have now.Everybody did some farming to keep in touch with nature and creation. Keeping in touch with nature is a way of connecting to God. Not only then, but today too. Farming was the main vocation in Utopia. The people farmed to produce food so that they can eat. With this vocation came prayer because as said earlier it was a way to connect with God and creation. Farming was a private vocation. Everybody in Utopia shared his or her wealth and physical labor. To go along with this, they also balanced work with prayer. Into that calculation, you can fit rest. There must be a balance to work as said earlier. Everyone must rest, it is part of being human. Too much rest, idleness, can be a disease, so it is imperative not to take too much rest or you will never get back to work. The time of rest for Utopians was the Sabbath. Obviously, it was the Sabbath because that’s the day God says to rest in the third of his Ten Commandments.Resting on the Sabbath could also be seen as a private vocation because it was each person’s responsibility to rest and not do any work on the Sabbath. Even this vocation adds to the total corporate vocation. In this sense, it would help the community to unite together and pray with one another. All these things add to the utopian society where everyone lives in harmony. Another private vocation that everyone shared was gardening. Everyone had a garden at his or her home. Maybe to have part of nature at home, as well as at work when they are farming. This is part of balancing work with prayer and vice versa.Moving on the corporate vocation, it gets a little more complicated. This is because, as said before, everybody’s private vocation adds to the whole corporate vocation. The main corporate vocation in Utopia would be city planning. This was a plan that Thomas More came up with in his book. He thought that cities are where the future is. He was right. A modern city t...
