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Vocation to love

 

  

God has known and loved each one of us from all eternity. Then, in the fulness of time for us, he created us out of love and invited us to enter into a loving relationship with him. In this meditation we use texts of Scripture, St John Paul II and St Josemaria to consider how:

  • God loves us with the love of eros and agape
  • To love God more and reflect Christ better, we must struggle against the wounds of original sin: pride, self-centredness, lack of willpower and disordered desire for pleasure
  • We grow in love for God through prayer, penance and the sacraments
  • The more we love God, the happier we will be and the more able to draw other souls to God

You too have a vocation

We all have vocation

We tend to think that only priests and religious have a vocation. But we all have a calling from God, a vocation, to carry out a particular mission in life. In this meditation we use texts from Scripture, Pope Francis, St John Henry Newman and St Josemaria Escriva to consider how:

  • God has created every single person to fulfil a particular mission in the world
  • He has called each one of us from all eternity to carry out that task
  • Many great things depend on whether we fulfil that mission or not
  • Through fidelity to our vocation, we can help many people find God and make this world a better place

Discovering our calling

Jesus told the apostles in the Last Supper that they had not chosen him, but that he had chosen them for a particular mission:  to go out and bear fruit. God has created each individual for a purpose: to fulfil some definite part of his plan for the salvation of all souls. In this meditation we use texts of Scripture. St John Henry Newman, Pope Francis and St Josemaria to see how:

  • God has a particular plan for each of us, which only we can fulfil
  • To fulfil this plan we must first seek holiness, love for God which consists in doing his will
  • If we think ourselves unworthy and incapable, so were the apostles
  • Many great things depend on whether we fulfil the mission God has planned for us