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1 Intro,1 | Let us give thanks to God~1. Blessed be the Omnipotent
2 Intro,1 | Blessed be the Omnipotent God who has blessed the continent
3 Intro,2 | together with our gratitude to God who is the source of every
4 Intro,2 | have entrusted those whom God continues to call in our
5 Intro,4 | of future you may welcome God's plan for you: you will
6 Intro,5 | address you parents, called by God to collaborate with His
7 Intro,5 | and promoters, called by God to collaborate in different
8 Intro,5 | future. Your fidelity to God's call is the precious and
9 Intro,6 | your lives that to serve God is beautiful and fulfilling,
10 Intro,7 | to the whole People of God in Europe~7. Finally, we
11 Intro,7 | hope to the whole People of God, on pilgrimage in this ancient
12 Intro,8 | again from the Mystery (of God) in order to lead back to
13 I,11 | expectations fulfilled. God is not the problem, the
14 I,12 | millennium. It is the call of God to man for a new season
15 I,12 | the good news, the Word of God becomes man's companion
16 I,12 | leads us, the People of God in Europe, to discover what
17 I,12 | members of the household of God" (Eph 2,19).~This is not,
18 I,12 | of human love blessed by God; people capable of cultural
19 I,12 | familiar with the mystery of God as to know how to celebrate
20 I,12 | experience of the divine and show God present in the events of
21 I,13 | idea-plan, like a dream found in God's heart, because the creature
22 I,13 | creature is found in his heart. God the Father wants this to
23 I,13 | aspect of the thought of God. There he finds his name
24 I,13 | feeling oneself called by God, or give birth to newness
25 I,13 | more the direction which God, the Lord of history, is
26 I,13 | the unstoppable plan of God, which always generates
27 I,13 | proposal, in the name of that God who has no preference among
28 I,13 | newness and the future of God;~— if a certain vocations
29 I,13 | there is an original gift of God which waits to be discovered;~—
30 I,13 | might be able to discern God's plan for his life for
31 I,13 | harvest of the Kingdom of God, faced with the harvest
32 I,13 | vocation is the initiative of God, a gift of the Father, Son
33 II | human life in relation to God the Trinitarian communion.
34 II | anthropology cut off from God is illusory.~This is about
35 II,14 | the school of the Word of God the Christian community
36 II,14 | one's destiny, but from God. It is He who gives the
37 II,14 | the decisive dialogue with God, they can formulate the
38 II,15 | working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in
39 II,15 | reflects the mystery of God the Father, of God the Son
40 II,15 | mystery of God the Father, of God the Son and of God the Holy
41 II,15 | Father, of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit; and each
42 II,15 | seized by the mystery of God and is a visible icon of
43 II,16 | called to relationship with God, to stand before Him, with
44 II,16 | of the creative love of God and is in itself a call
45 II,16 | the full meaning of life. God has so loved man as to give
46 II,16 | immediately makes him similar to God, "in the image of the Holy
47 II,16 | being, — says John Paul II — God inscribed in the humanity
48 II,16(30) | illustrates belief in that God who ?sees' and ?calls' from
49 II,16 | according to a plan that God considers appropriate for
50 II,16 | up in a heart of flesh. God the creator who gives life,
51 II,16 | be fully himself and what God has called him to be, in
52 II,16 | nostalgia for the infinite which God has placed within each one
53 II,16 | holiness of the children of God. Nothing and no-one can
54 II,16 | With the grace of Baptism, God the Father intervenes to
55 II,16 | family of the children of God. The Christian is called,
56 II,16 | which are also gifts of God, but based on His will;
57 II,16 | the wishes and plans of God.~Fidelity to one's Baptism,
58 II,17 | It is the yearning for God, present in the heart of
59 II,17 | know his own roots, to know God. Man is not infinite, he
60 II,17 | who reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp
61 II,17 | in "being sent", to bring God, as Father, close to men
62 II,17 | is called to be a son of God, therefore no-one better
63 II,17 | can "speak" to him about God and portray the image of
64 II,17 | a son. Hence, the Son of God, coming to this earth, has
65 II,17 | The Son, the one sent by God, is made man in order to
66 II,17 | experience evoked by the Word of God: "And He (Jesus) appointed
67 II,17 | of the life of the Son of God.~Therefore in the celebration
68 II,18 | disciples continue to need God. Indeed, on the eve of the
69 II,18 | an abstract notion, but God's plan in the life of every
70 II,18 | confirmed, in the face of God and His gift of love ("Be
71 II,18 | s identity as a child of God.~The "amen" is a "yes" also
72 II,18 | one's future according to God's plan. Not only according
73 II,18 | hidden and unforseeable, that God has for each one.~
74 II,19 | that is, of communion with God and of unity among all men".(40)~
75 II,19 | reflects the mystery of God; it is an icon that goes
76 II,19 | community of the children of God.~Therefore history asks
77 II,19 | each one is planned around God who is its only source and
78 II,19 | model of every response to God's appeals.~In relation to
79 II,19 | of the gift. The call of God is a gift for the community,
80 II,19 | contribution of each person to God's plan, in the image and
81 II,19 | The Church, called by God, established in the world
82 II,19 | her turn an instrument of God's call. The Church is a
83 II,19 | the appeal that comes from God.~The Church exercises this
84 II,19 | demands of the People of God, and inviting them to respond
85 II,20 | goods that the Spirit of God has sown everywhere and
86 II,23 | dialogue between the liberty of God and the liberty of man takes
87 II,23 | image that has emerged from God's dream about the creature!
88 II,23 | small fragment into whom God has managed to pour all
89 II,23 | She is the sign of what God can do when he finds a creature
90 II,23 | spouse, the virgin mother of God and man, daughter of the
91 III,24 | represented by the Word of God, especially where it recounts
92 III,24 | shortly, will be chosen by God to proclaim to the pagans
93 III,24 | sacred history: the story of God who chooses and calls men
94 III,24 | be called and chosen by God.~These notes are enough
95 III,25 | Christian vocation comes from God, but always arrives at the
96 III,25 | every part of the People of God".(64)~c) Every member of
97 III,25 | mission, to the service of God and the brothers and sisters...
98 III,26 | realisation of a life project as God wants it, according to the
99 III,26 | the individual calls of God are, evidently always related
100 III,26 | believer before the proposal of God; it will be used to provoke
101 III,26 | received or the Word of God that has been heard; in
102 III,26 | to commit himself before God.(71)~b) Pastoral work for
103 III,26 | way a project or a gift of God to the person, and stimulate
104 III,26 | this confrontation with God, with all that this implies
105 III,26 | to the transcendence of God, Creator and Father.~Only
106 III,26 | such as dedication to God in the priestly or consecrated
107 III,26 | the total gift of self to God as the natural, and for
108 III,26 | but a grace and gift of God for each person, because
109 III,26 | living person is called by God. Nor can it be understood
110 III,26 | in order to discern what God wants from him (9, 13-17),
111 III,27 | of receiving the love of God and offering it in witness.
112 III,27 | liturgical celebrations we recall God's action through Christ
113 III,27 | is only in listening to God that the believer can discover
114 III,27 | discover the project that God himself has planned: in
115 III,27 | identity, "hid with Christ in God" (Col 3, 3).~And in addition,
116 III,27 | prayer, as dialogue with God, belongs to this dimension:
117 III,27 | expresses living hope in God, who will never allow His
118 III,27(77)| where the whole People of God finds itself gathered in
119 III,27 | overcome in the Spirit of God who is the Spirit of unity (
120 III,27 | among men and women and with God which is a gift from on
121 III,27 | manifestation of the person whom God created as open to relationship;
122 III,27 | vocation to intimacy with God in the cloister implies
123 III,27 | projects, and for welcoming God's plan for himself. This
124 III,27 | able not only to identify God's plan for them, but to
125 III,27 | sister, inevitably meets God and enters into a particular
126 III,27 | difficult for him to discover God's will for him and, especially,
127 III,27 | have truly rediscovered God and themselves, the purpose
128 III,27 | This is the proclamation of God's nearness to men and women
129 III,27 | is a gift received from God and witnessed to by the
130 III,27 | and welcome the call of God.~A vocation, in any case,
131 III,27 | generosity will speedily accept God's plan for himself, in order
132 III,29 | of evoking the mystery of God and disposed to listening
133 III,29 | co-ordination(90) which, thank God, has already borne much
134 IV,30 | beginning from the Word of God, to highlight precisely
135 IV,32 | mystery of Christ, the Son of God made man, there are many
136 IV,32 | and in listening to the God who calls, formators of
137 IV,32 | attitudes of responding to God's appeal;(96) and who are
138 IV,32 | mystery of the call that, from God, arrives at the individual
139 IV,33 | as mediator between the God who calls and the one who
140 IV,33 | called, and is inspired by God's action. God the Father
141 IV,33 | inspired by God's action. God the Father is the sower;
142 IV,33 | vocation is a dialogue between God and the human person. The
143 IV,33 | principle interlocutor is God, who calls whom He wills,
144 IV,33 | recipient. But the liberty of God meets the liberty of man
145 IV,33 | liberty that is perfect — God's — and one that is imperfect —
146 IV,33 | is totally the action of God, but in a real way it is
147 IV,33 | work and penetration of God into the heart of human
148 IV,33 | human being is a creature of God, he is also the bearer of
149 IV,33 | in this icon the heart of God the Father. It is the image
150 IV,33 | Father. It is the image of God that sows in the heart of
151 IV,33 | image of the "waste" of God's generosity, that is poured
152 IV,33 | regarding the Kingdom of God (cf Mt 13, 31ff.): the seed
153 IV,33 | expression of the liberty of God who intends to respect to
154 IV,34 | mysterious project willed by God for him. This journey proceeds
155 IV,34 | the voice and the steps of God, who helps to recognise
156 IV,34 | the way to travel towards God and respond to Him.~A vocational
157 IV,34 | towards the discovery of the God who calls and comes close
158 IV,34 | person finds himself before God, he discovers with surprise
159 IV,34 | faith, one's experience of God, the difficulties of the
160 IV,34 | life lived according to God's project.~The manner of
161 IV,34 | his own being chosen by God, he recounts — not necessarily
162 IV,34 | and continually called, by God, certainly; but also by
163 IV,35 | in deed and word before God and all the people...' And
164 IV,35 | between their hopes and God's plan as it is concretised
165 IV,35 | call seem excessive, as if God's plan were inimical to
166 IV,35 | begin from the mystery of God to lead to the mystery of
167 IV,35 | locate outside of himself, in God the Father, the search for
168 IV,35 | fatherhood and motherhood of God!~c) Educating to read life~
169 IV,35 | the steps and traces of God's passage, and therefore
170 IV,35 | and mysterious presence of God and His Word. (101) And,
171 IV,35 | education for listening to the God who calls, because every
172 IV,35 | listen to the silences of God. Not anyone can teach this
173 IV,36 | of the love received from God he feels that he can do
174 IV,36 | consecrated life. Therefore God's proposal, because of how
175 IV,36 | related to an experience of God, in whom the person also
176 IV,36 | connection between experience of God and discovery of self, between
177 IV,37 | a choice that comes from God.~When this certainty is
178 IV,37 | underlined the primacy of God in the choice, or that has
179 IV,37 | idea that a vocation is God's reflection on the creature,
180 IV,37 | the certainty that it is God who calls, and therefore
181 IV,37 | the signs of his call by God not only in extraordinary
182 IV,37 | received as a gift from God (this is the ontological
183 IV,37 | because it is thought out by God.~b) "Vocation" fundamentally
184 IV,37 | to consecrate oneself to God means in every case re-taking
185 IV,37(111)| proclaiming the love of God as the beginning and end
186 IV,37 | and nature, between the God who calls and the individual
187 Conclu,38 | time in which the People of God is preparing to celebrate
188 Conclu,38 | generations, in all the People of God in Europe.~
189 Conclu,39 | thanksgiving to the Lord God, can not close without a
190 Conclu,39 | destiny of every vocation.~"God the Father, source of love,
191 Conclu,39 | Spirit, love always young of God, voice of the Eternal one
192 Conclu,39 | to the "youthfulness" of God and the Church, universal
193 Conclu,39 | yourself, free to hope that God would have realised it.
194 Conclu,39 | Spirit, to the Glory of God the Father! AMEN."~Rome,
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