A calling is an activity you find so compelling that you wind up organizing your entire self around it -- often to the detriment of your life outside of it. Fr

A calling is an activity you find so compelling that you wind up organizing your entire self around it -- often to the detriment of your life outside of it. From this definition I would say that a family is a calling (and IMHO the most rewarding one). I've seen too many exceptions to believe that you can't do both.