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Vocation Promotion

VOCATION PROMOTION

Gujarat Province of the Society of Jesus

"..every Jesuit and every community should be 'promoters of vocations', and ... it is necessary to consider vocation promotion 'by contagion', which is derived from the coherence and the testimony of our lives as 'companions of Jesus'. Less timidity is seen to be necessary in planting in young people the question of the possible call of the Lord, and not being afraid to present the vocation to the Society with all its requirements. We must be more energetic and assertive in asking young people that they think about the religious life; we have been too passive for too long."  (News & Features, General Curia S.J.)

Courtesy: Jesuit Treasury - Fr Hedwig Lewis SJ

Call - the Voice "in Here"

The Voice “in Here”

By Chris Lowney

From Heroic Living

The Hebrew prophet Elijah finds God speaking…. We’re told that Elijah witnessed a “great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces.” But Elijah perceived that “the Lord was not in the wind,” or in the earthquake or fires that followed. Instead, later on, there was a “sound of sheer silence.” And Elijah heard God speak out of that silence. Those of us who heard this story as children may remember the poetic King James language for this encounter—Elijah heard God’s “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:11–13).

Perhaps, if we attune ourselves to hearing that still, small voice, we will find it whispered all around us and, more important, from within us. As the Quaker minister Parker Palmer put it, “Vocation does not come from a voice ‘out there’ calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice ‘in here’ calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”

Generosity Prayer of St Ignatius of Loyola