Vocation is not a test it is a call from God, by Gavin Kerr Imagine a young man in his late teens, just finished school, comes home to his parents and tells them of his desire to be a priest. This young man has never lived away from home, has not travelled, has maybe had…
“During my aspirantate very often we used to have visits from many Salesian missionaries who narrated to us their missionary experiences. Many of them were from Africa and I can say that my desire for Africa precisely began there. Most of them insisted on praying to Our Blessed Mother for the missionary vocation so I…
അര്ജന്റീനയിലെ ബുവെനോസ് ഐരേസില് ആണ് ബെര്ഗോളിയോ ജനിച്ചത്. മാതാപിതാക്കള് ഇറ്റാലിയന് കുടിയേറ്റക്കാര് ആയിരുന്നു. സെമിനാരി പ്രവേശനത്തിനു മുമ്പ് അദ്ദേഹം ഒരു കെമിക്കല് ലാബോറട്ടറിയിലും നൈറ്റ് ക്ലബിലും ജോലി ചെയ്തിരുന്നു.
Vocation is fundamentally something personal that takes place between a person and God. It is an interior call of grace, which falls into the soul like a seed, to mature within it. The Creator has a specific task in life for each and every one of us. Each one of us is hand-picked, called by…
…The Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, which recounts these events is a parable of the entire history of salvation, but also of the inner workings of Christian faith. Passing from the slavery of the old Adam to new life in Christ is a event of redemption which takes place through faith…
Tiny are they, smaller than my vision Smaller than your projects, or even dreams Most forgotten than thought of yet they contain miracles in the making. Like drops from a passing rain cloud Like breeze on a dry and sandy desert it keeps coming, powered for miracles soothing and tender, as are noticed. People come…
following address was made by Don Bosco to all of his boys on the Feast of Saint Joseph (March 19, 1876) and are recorded in Fr. Arthur Lenti’s Don Bosco: History and Spirit, Volume 5. The harvest is great but the laborers are few! That was Don Bosco’s theme. Is it any less true today? I invite anyone…
Saint Katharine Drexel (photograph c. 1915) We never know when we’ll be called. That’s the message that rang true in my heart as I meditated on Pope Francis’ homily during his private Mass with bishops, clergy, and religious at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. The Holy Father cited the example…
Pope Francis received a group of young people in consecrated life on Thursday morning. The special audience was the highlight of the International Congress for Young People in Consecrated Life taking place in Rome this week, in the context of the ongoing Year of Consecrated Life, which will close on the Feast of the Presentation…
Dear Friends here are some useful readings for those who are discerning their Vocation! Abandonment to Divine Providence by Fr. J. P. De Caussade, S.J. *READ ONLINE* Ad Catholici Sacerdotii – On the Catholic Priesthood – Pope Pius XI *READ ONLINE* Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. – order here…
The idea that we need special signs usually comes from thinking about the fact that we ought to choose the way of life God wills for us. We sometimes forget that God’s will is also, and usually found in the commandments and the counsels, in ordinary events, in the judgement of conscience, and in the…
Yes. It is a gift. It can be called a grace of life. The grace of the call is part of the human condition. The vocation is a grace that passes through the mediation.
A vocation is nothing other than the firm and constant will possessed by the person called, to want to serve God in the manner and in the place where the Divine Majesty calls him/her. St. Francis de Sales makes the point repeatedly: for a true vocation, what is necessary is not a multitude of virtues,…
Vocation is a bi-polar system. It is a connection between the One who calls and the one who responds. But the fact is that it is a commitment: God keeps repeating: “I am with you, till the end of time”. It is commitment, permanent. Man responds: I shall walk with You, that too is commitment,…
The vocation is the providential thought of the Creator for each creature, it is His plan, like a dream found in God’s heart, because the creature is found in his heart. God the Father wants this to be different and specific for each living person. The human being, in fact, is “called” to life, and how…
There is the fundamental call God posts for everyone.. that of Life, to be lived out for Him. It is in and for the realization of this Call that the very life is to be viewed. God when calling man to be with Him assigns a purpose; to give a helping hand.. in recreating a more just…
“Each one heard them speaking in his own language” (Acts 2, 6) The concrete guidelines for the pastoral care for vocations do not come only from a correct theology of vocation, but through some operational principles, in which the vocational perspective is the soul and the unifying criterion of all pastoral work. We all need…
W H Y N O W ?!! It is often a wonder why God calls some people at a particular age while others at a different age. Some join lives of commitment when young while others at a later stage. How come!! Is it because some are more matured than the others? Salvation History…
1. The Liturgy and Prayer: Every celebration is a vocational event. It is only in prayer can we activate attitudes of trust and abandonment to God that are essential to pronounce one’s “yes” and to overcome fear and uncertainty. Every vocation is born in-vocation. 2. The Ecclessial communion: Vocation is a relationship and a dialogue.…
