Our Vocation to Love and Belong
Everyone has a vocation, our first vocation is the call
to love and belong to others. This was
the foundation of the Choice retreat weekend that I led last weekend. Twenty five single Catholic males and females
between the ages of 22-39 years of age discussed the idea of all of them having
a vocation. For many of them this was
the first time they had heard of this concept, they thought that only priests
and nuns had a real vocation. The
retreat helped them to realize that they also had a vocation and that married
life and the single dedicated life are also very important vocations.
The young people shared their lives, their joys and pains
with one another. Some of them had many
challenges in their lives and they realized that they needed the support of
others who they trusted to help them through.
They heard of the importance of not allowing others to lead them to
decisions that they were not yet ready or equipped to make. Subsequently, to take their time in finding
out in what area of life that they are being called to live and belong to. The weekend for many was an enlightening one.
Lystra Long, OP
New Grant, Trinidad
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