Lord, what do You want me to do with my life? As they have done every year for the past five years, the Catholic Claretian Publications has organized an event in Rome to reflect on the theme of 'vocation'. …More
Lord, what do You want me to do with my life?
As they have done every year for the past five years, the Catholic Claretian Publications has organized an event in Rome to reflect on the theme of 'vocation'.
Sr. Enrica Rosanna, the undersecretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life participated in the event.
Juan Carlos Martos, a missionary with the Claretians' Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, introduced the book "Open your heart: vocational activity in difficult and turbulent times".
"With this book, as we would say, we want to offer a pedagogy of vocational accompaniment."
"I think the job is the following: How can we make it possible for the young people of our time, instead of asking 'What am I going to do with my life?', be able to bring that question to God: "Lord, what do You want me to do with my life."
God is calling, but are young people listening?
"I see several things. The central issue I find most disturbing is narcissism. That is, the person at the center of everything is me. This is neither good nor bad. The only thing is, it produces a phenomenon of deafness to other voices, some so close that they are knocking at the doors. But there is a great insensitivity to respond to another's call, other than to those that come from their own sensibility, their own desire, own intuitions, or their own tastes."
As they have done every year for the past five years, the Catholic Claretian Publications has organized an event in Rome to reflect on the theme of 'vocation'.
Sr. Enrica Rosanna, the undersecretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life participated in the event.
Juan Carlos Martos, a missionary with the Claretians' Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, introduced the book "Open your heart: vocational activity in difficult and turbulent times".
"With this book, as we would say, we want to offer a pedagogy of vocational accompaniment."
"I think the job is the following: How can we make it possible for the young people of our time, instead of asking 'What am I going to do with my life?', be able to bring that question to God: "Lord, what do You want me to do with my life."
God is calling, but are young people listening?
"I see several things. The central issue I find most disturbing is narcissism. That is, the person at the center of everything is me. This is neither good nor bad. The only thing is, it produces a phenomenon of deafness to other voices, some so close that they are knocking at the doors. But there is a great insensitivity to respond to another's call, other than to those that come from their own sensibility, their own desire, own intuitions, or their own tastes."