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1 IV,33(97) | Romano" (English edition) of 13IV1978.~
2 IV,33(97) | of Prayer for Vocations (16IV1978), in "L'Osservatore Romano" (
3 III,27(83)| Cf Catechesi tradendae, 186.~
4 I,13(17) | cf "L'Osservatore Romano" 18XII1992; cf also Congregation for
5 II,23(52) | Editiones Cistercenses, 1966, p. 23.~
6 IV,37(110)| vocaciones", in Seminarium, 4 (1991), 697-725.~
7 Intro,8(4)| of Apostolic Life), Rome 1992; Final Declaration of the
8 Intro,3(2)| Consecrated life in Europe, Rome 1996, n.88. Henceforth this text
9 Conclu,39 | AMEN."~Rome, 6 January 1998, the Epiphany of the Lord.~
10 IV,37 | these three requirements:~1° that the young person be
11 I,13(17) | vocazioni, Rome 1994, pp.241-245).~
12 I,13(17) | vocazioni, Rome 1994, pp.241-245).~
13 Intro,2(1)| 253 delegates from 37 European
14 IV,37(110)| Jurado, Il discernimento, 262. Cf also L.R. Moran, "Orientaciones
15 I,13(17) | Vocations, celebrated on 2V1993 (cf "L'Osservatore Romano"
16 IV,37 | is not sexual in origin.~2° The second condition is
17 IV,31 | The Gospel of vocation~31. Every encounter or dialogue
18 IV,33 | Kingdom of God (cf Mt 13, 31ff.): the seed of a vocation
19 IV,37 | struggle with his whole being.~3° It is also important to
20 II,16 | the light (cf Jer 1, 5; Is 49, 1.5; Gal 1, 15).~Vocation,
21 III,29(90)| Cf Optatam totius, 2; DC, 57-59; cf also Developments
22 III,27 | martyrdom (Acts 6, 8; 7, 60), and that of the Apostles
23 IV,35 | of eternal life" (Jn 6, 67-68).~This type of in-voking
24 IV,35 | eternal life" (Jn 6, 67-68).~This type of in-voking
25 IV,37(110)| in Seminarium, 4 (1991), 697-725.~
26 IV,37(110)| Seminarium, 4 (1991), 697-725.~
27 I,13(25) | IL, 85.~
28 IV,30(95) | IL, 86.~
29 II,23(53) | Tractatus VIII, 9: CCL 36, p. 87.~
30 Intro,3(2)| in Europe, Rome 1996, n.88. Henceforth this text will
31 III,29(90)| Developments in pastoral care, 89-91.~
32 III,29(94)| Instrumentum laboris, 93 and 90h. In Latin America for some
33 III,29(90)| Developments in pastoral care, 89-91.~
34 III,29(94)| the Instrumentum laboris, 93 and 90h. In Latin America
35 I,13 | of communion among them, abandoning every spirit of «competition»".(15)~
36 III,27 | those attitudes of trust and abandonment that are essential for speaking
37 III,26 | religious, of the monk who abandons the world, of the lay person
38 I,13 | and can raise up sons of Abraham even from the rocks (cf
39 Intro,3 | and the breath which is absolutely necessary for the Church'
40 IV,33 | There is nothing strange or absurd in this fearful and negative
41 IV,33 | sower of the parable in the abundant gesture of his hand that
42 Intro,5 | may have life, and have it abundantly" (Jn 10, 10).~ ~
43 IV,36 | anthropological truth is accepted, then we can make any vocational
44 IV,35 | part of the I.~And then accepting the mystery is a sign of
45 III,26 | much more provoking and accessible. In concrete, the more the
46 III,25 | for vocations is not an accessory or secondary element, with
47 IV,32 | seed of vocation, and then accompaniers along the path that leads
48 IV,34 | pedagogical expressions of accompanying, educating and forming,
49 III,24 | the cenacle "and with one accord devoted themselves to prayer...
50 III,25 | develop a plan of action in accordance with this, making use also
51 Intro,8 | Without attempting to make an accurate synthesis of it, nor of
52 III,26 | promote vocations, those who acknowledge, firstly, that rich complex
53 III,29 | two elements should be acknowledged: on the one hand it is a
54 IV,37 | person shows himself able to acquire the two certainties that
55 III,27 | and sharing that can be acquired only in the experience of
56 II,16 | this way the Christian life acquires the significance of a responsorial
57 III,27 | addition, only prayer can activate those attitudes of trust
58 III,26 | allows people to see and actively recalls those "supreme possibilities",
59 II,15 | vocation".(28) "Christ the new Adam, in the very revelation
60 I,11 | become a goal and provide an adequate stimulus to young people
61 III,26 | change the lives of those who adhere to it, as can be seen from
62 II,18 | towards this goal signifies adhering to the mysterious action
63 IV,37 | expression of believing adhesion, and the more genuine it
64 II,18 | our time? Where must we adjust our directions in our vocations
65 IV,37(111)| condition necessary for admission to religious vows and the
66 IV,34 | presence of Another, or of admitting the relative nature of his
67 IV,33 | cases, in childhood and adolescence. Therefore it seems important
68 II,21 | that the proclamation and adoration of the Mystery of salvation
69 III,27 | allows us to make a further advance, moving from theoretical
70 III,29 | years now with considerable advantage.~However this is not the
71 III,29 | likeness of Jesus. From Advent, the time of hope, to Pentecost
72 III,26 | change and which, generally, advises against any immediate proposal
73 III,29 | on more immediate things, affected by the cold wind of individualism,
74 IV,37 | certainties that make the person affectively free: the certainty that
75 III,26 | the point of being able to affirm that pastoral work for vocations
76 III,26 | principles around some thematic affirmations.~a) Pastoral work for vocations
77 III | the Congress, John Paul II affirmed: "Changed historical and
78 | afterwards
79 III,25 | making use also of specific agencies and appropriate instruments
80 III,27 | witness to liberty and an agent of liberation for men and
81 III,25 | vocations has as its active agents, as its protagonists, the
82 I,13 | if at a time not so long ago certain people deluded themselves
83 I,12 | of Europe, close to the agonies of the people, welcoming
84 IV,33 | often stir up any immediate agreement; rather it is negated or
85 IV,30 | pastoral workers with an aid, an instrument useful to
86 IV,36 | Pastoral work for vocations is aimed at preparing this logic
87 III,28 | on a norm and tradition aiming at a precise objective that
88 III,26 | meaning of existence, but aims towards a personal involvement
89 III,28 | be decisive only if it is all-encompassing.~Often, in effect, there
90 I,11 | Europe. Their own vocation is alluded to in the vocation of their
91 IV,33 | should know in order to alter his or her life in a different
92 I,13 | beautiful and true, that altruism which is not only an emergency
93 III,27 | know better oneself and the altruistic dignity as well as the beauty
94 IV,35 | excavation" of one's own ambitions in order to welcome expectations,
95 III,29(94)| Consejo Episcopal Latino Americano (CELAM), there is the Departimento
96 I,13 | sinful people, who makes of Amos, who was not a son of a
97 I,13(26) | An analagous expression was already used
98 Intro,9 | situation, so as then to analyse the topic of vocation from
99 III,26 | crowd; but later Saul needs Ananias in order to discern what
100 III,26 | morning to an appeal made anew every day.~Therefore pastoral
101 II,23 | says, commenting on the Angel Gabriel's message at the
102 Intro,2(1)| churches (Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican).~
103 I,11 | and cultures (Greco-Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Slav).~These are also
104 III,29 | appear to be everywhere animated by the same will to work
105 I,13 | risks losing sight of and annulling the serious questions in
106 II,23 | Gabriel's message at the Annunciation: "This is not a Virgin found
107 II,16 | act is always precedent, anterior, it does not await man's
108 III,26 | to the specific, without anticipating or rushing the proposals,
109 IV,37 | believer, in his questions, anxieties and aspirations.~e) Also
110 Intro,4 | people, that the Church anxiously follows your progress and
111 | anything
112 IV,37 | one's name is written (cf Apoc 2, 17-18), or returning
113 III,26 | choice of path typical of an apostle, of the priest or religious,
114 II,19 | of every vocation in the apostolate and mission of the Church
115 II,21(46) | Encyclical Letters Slavorum Apostoli (1985) and Ut unum sint (
116 IV,33 | respects that mystery. Even if, apparently, that must mean a small
117 IV,37 | precarious position of having or appearing. The Christian vocation
118 III | of view of its pastoral application.~In the audience granted
119 I,11 | theological content and the applicational coherence of certain vocational
120 Intro,9 | At this point, the most applicative part begins: firstly pastoral,
121 III,25(60)| mystery; properly it is applied to dioceses and parishes
122 IV,33 | and allow us, perhaps, to apply to it what Jesus said regarding
123 II,17 | of God: "And He (Jesus) appointed twelve, to be with Him,
124 II,18 | vocations. Therefore the great appointment of the Spirit for this period
125 Intro,5 | you how much the Church appreciates your vocation, and how much
126 I,13 | that wonder that allows the appreciation of beauty and the choosing
127 IV,35 | spontaneously, but needs a long apprenticeship; and one does not learn
128 IV,33 | order to attempt different approaches and address ourselves to
129 III,29 | be properly instituted or appropriately planned.~From even more
130 II,16 | not only based on human aptitudes, which are also gifts of
131 Conclu,39 | Saraiva Martins~Titular Archbishop of Tuburnica ~Vice-President~
132 II | vocation, its essential architecture which, evidently, must be
133 II,17 | Him and especially in the ardent desire to communicate to
134 IV,33 | turn, proclaims, proposes, arouses, with identical generosity;
135 IV | form, to discern.~We have arrived at the last section which,
136 III,27 | icon around which we have articulated our reflection allows us
137 II,18 | divine love. As the patient artisan of our souls and the "perfect
138 III,24 | made by Jesus before He ascended to the Father. "It is not
139 II,17 | is the last word before ascending to the Father (Mt 28, 16-
140 II,18 | in it, as a real path of asceticism and interior rebirth, so
141 IV,36 | the young person should be asked for the best he can give
142 II,19 | Spirit who raises up an assent in the hearts of those called,
143 III,24 | persecutor of Christians, also assents to the sentence condemning
144 III,25 | can only arise from an assessment of the mystery of the Church
145 III,27 | Church, whose members were assiduous in "the breaking of bread
146 I,13 | able to give appropriate assistance to the one searching;~—
147 Conclu,39 | generated the early Church and assisted it with maternal love, we
148 III,27(79)| and where the parishes and associated bodies are lived as a communion
149 III,25 | in the one praying, and associates itself in the rest of the
150 II,22 | the various lay forms of association related to religious institutes,
151 III,29 | these are groups, movements, associations, and school its elf.~Beyond
152 II,18 | not be left alone: Jesus assures them of the enduring company
153 IV,30 | definition of the objective to be attained, must also provide the pedagogical
154 IV,35 | fundamental necessity for attaining the truth, but in every
155 II,17 | oblational nature which attains its supreme epiphany on
156 Intro,8 | the Congress was. Without attempting to make an accurate synthesis
157 IV,34(100)| priesthood tell that they attribute their own vocation to an
158 III,25 | universal Church, but it is attributed in a special way to every
159 III | pastoral application.~In the audience granted to participants
160 II,23 | This is echoed by Saint Augustine: "Before the Word was born
161 III,24 | only provoke the ire of the authorities, leading to the first martyr,
162 III,24 | Father has fixed by his own authority. But you shall receive power
163 III,28 | by the subject and that avails itself of the rich tradition
164 II,16 | precedent, anterior, it does not await man's initiative, it does
165 III,26 | vocational attention, to awaken it in every creature; it
166 IV,34 | sower, or the one who has awakened in the young person the
167 IV,30 | the necessary steps for awakening an openness to vocation
168 IV,33 | against the unfathomable bad weather of the seasons.
169 III,29(94)| of gifts, it "provide a «bank» of people qualified to
170 I,13 | holiness is for all the baptised in Christ, so there exists
171 II,18 | provides for the renewal of baptismal promises and asks the one
172 IV,34 | same way as did John the Baptist.~The ministry of vocational
173 III,26 | Matthias and Stephen and then Barnabas and Saul, the whole community
174 IV,33 | for this mission, knows no barriers and makes no difference
175 IV,33 | creature of God, he is also the bearer of a gift, of a particular
176 II,18 | therefore, are directed towards bearing witness to love, towards
177 III,28 | people to try to find their bearings by means of a profoundly
178 III,26 | authentic. Vocation is the beating heart of the whole of pastoral
179 I,11 | evaluation, of orientation and behaviour.~In such a context it is
180 III,27 | fraternity is not only a behavioural virtue, but also a vocational
181 II,18 | everyone who faithfully believes in the Gospel bears and
182 II,21 | the joyful confession of belonging to the tradition of the
183 II,23 | elective liberty. As Saint Bernard says, commenting on the
184 II,23(52) | Homilia II, 4: Sancti Bernardi opera, IV, Romae, Editiones
185 IV,37 | young, not so much as a biographical quality, as more a global
186 IV,35 | out and finds in one's own biography the steps and traces of
187 IV,33 | along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
188 II,22 | reciprocity of communion. The Bishop, therefore, with his presbyterate,
189 III,28 | theoreticians, a little bit idealistic). It will be
190 II,16 | that we should be holy and blameless before him" (Eph 1, 4).~
191 II,16 | man and woman, in order to bless the fruit of that love and
192 Intro,1 | Europe with every spiritual blessing, in Christ and in His Holy
193 III,27 | strength, until the final, even bloody, gift of one's life.~This
194 Intro,7 | can also today fill the boats of the apostles with a miraculous
195 III,29(94)| positive experience. In Bogotà (Colombia), at the Consejo
196 III,24 | 37).~At this point the Book of the Acts describes the
197 IV,35 | repetitive and passive, boring and banal. This is why we
198 III,29 | thank God, has already borne much fruit; parish organisations,
199 II,15 | with their origin in the bosom of the Trinitarian communion
200 III,26 | work for vocations knows no boundaries. As has already been said
201 II,18 | Consoler', the Spirit of bounty, whom the Father will send
202 I,13 | generously helped so many boys and girls and young people
203 III,29(94)| at Itaici (Sao Paulo of Brazil) from 23 to 27 May 1994.~
204 I,12 | all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and
205 IV,36 | when Jesus takes the bread, breaks it and gives it to them: "
206 III,29 | the "first-born among many brethren" (Rom 8, 29).~The anthropology
207 IV,36 | the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them.
208 Conclu,39 | more united in peace and brotherhood.~Eternal Word, You who from
209 III,24 | teachings of the Apostles, brotherly union, the breaking of bread,
210 IV,37 | as not to lay impossible burdens on weak shoulders.~Vocational
211 IV,36 | mystery.~In the heart that burns there is the discovery of
212 Conclu,38 | not on our predictions and calculations, which have often been betrayed
213 II,17 | sent by the Father is the caller of mankind.~Therefore there
214 IV,34 | humble ministry, of that calm and intelligent humility
215 I,11 | people are a substantial capital for modern Europe, on which
216 Conclu,39 | Epiphany of the Lord.~Pio Card. Laghi~President~José Saraiva
217 II,16 | something obvious, necessary, casual.~Perhaps it is not easy,
218 Intro,7 | apostles with a miraculous catch and transform every believer
219 II,17 | the mission~In all of the catecheses of the early Christian community
220 III,27(83)| Cf Catechesi tradendae, 186.~
221 III,27 | the world.(82) And if the catechist is above all a witness,
222 III,26 | journey of faith in the catechumenate; to the various groups for
223 III,24 | this underlines that the cause of the Gospel requires the
224 IV,35 | life, to those events that caused their sadness, by means
225 IV,35 | mystery is one of the greatest causes of the vocations crisis.~
226 II,23(53) | Evangelium Tractatus VIII, 9: CCL 36, p. 87.~
227 Conclu,39 | the Eternal one who never ceases to resonate and call, free
228 III,27 | Word that calls without ceasing. Then the heart and the
229 III,29(94)| Episcopal Latino Americano (CELAM), there is the Departimento
230 III,29 | cycle of the liturgical year celebrates and proposes a model of
231 II,17 | mission.~In the community celebrating the Paschal Mystery every
232 III,27 | the Church. In liturgical celebrations we recall God's action through
233 IV,37(111)| Churches of Europe, to the celibate ministry (Western Church)
234 III,27 | the privacy of one's own "cell", it is relationship with
235 III,24 | pagans the mystery hidden for centuries and now revealed.~And the
236 IV,37 | able to acquire the two certainties that make the person affectively
237 IV,36(102)| young people are open to challenges and strong propositions (
238 II,23 | at the last minute, or by chance, but chosen since before
239 III | John Paul II affirmed: "Changed historical and cultural
240 III,29(93)| situation which is rapidly changing, the initial formation of
241 I,11 | others do?"(6)~Another aspect characterises the present socio-cultural
242 III,29 | too is part of the change characterising pastoral work for vocations.
243 IV,32 | These are the five central characteristics of vocations ministry or
244 III,29 | particularly endowed with charisma, rather they are the result
245 III,28 | of fraternal communion, charitable service and the proclamation
246 III,29(94)| desire that, as a gesture of charityand exchange of gifts, it "provide
247 IV,34 | its beauty continues to charm. Young people are very interested
248 IV,33 | the majority of cases, in childhood and adolescence. Therefore
249 IV,33 | and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on
250 II,16 | design, because the Father "chose us in him — in Christ —
251 III,25(60)| equivalent to a group of Chrisitans living in a place and representing
252 IV,37 | in a specific "sequela Christi".~A vocational project rich
253 Intro,7 | generous continent where Christianity has its roots, but it too
254 II,15 | Jesus as the Lord. Truly Christology is at the basis of every
255 I,11 | identity with consequent chronic indecision in the face of
256 II,23(52) | opera, IV, Romae, Editiones Cistercenses, 1966, p. 23.~
257 I,12 | sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members
258 II,14 | He who gives the key to clarifying and resolving the big questions
259 IV,34 | calls rings out with greater clarity and strength. And the young
260 II,18 | moment that expresses in the clearest and most aware manner the
261 III,27 | intimacy with God in the cloister implies a capacity for openness
262 IV,34 | the relative nature of his closeness or his accompaniment, in
263 III,29 | commitment in this field and a closer collaboration between national
264 III,27 | experience fraternity and closes himself to others or interprets
265 I,13 | of people ("ours", those closest to the Church's circle or
266 III,28 | be present, harmoniously co-ordinated for an experience that can
267 II,19 | the times that make up the code and language of the Holy
268 I,11 | gradation; completely dissimilar codes of reading and evaluation,
269 III,29 | things, affected by the cold wind of individualism, praying
270 II,22 | they might become their collaborators in the apostolic office.~
271 III,29(94)| positive experience. In Bogotà (Colombia), at the Consejo Episcopal
272 I,11 | rise — when they meet — to combinations which change their meaning:
273 II,23 | As Saint Bernard says, commenting on the Angel Gabriel's message
274 III,26 | to lead the believer to commit himself before God.(71)~
275 II,18 | question that without doubt commits us to listening to the Spirit:
276 II,18 | continued in the community. Committing himself in two directions,
277 IV,36 | There is not simply a commotion within the pilgrims who
278 III,28 | every believer must live the communal event of the liturgy, of
279 I,11 | reciprocity", who are seeking "companionship" and want "to build a new
280 III,27 | expresses the charity and "compassion" (Mt 9, 36) of Christ towards
281 III,29 | centres...which are the competent organs in all of the communities
282 IV,37 | relationship of synergy and complementarity: the witness of the individual
283 III,26 | illuminate each other, they are complementary to each other. And on the
284 III,27 | as one of the structural components of it, to the point that
285 I,12 | each one "may have power to comprehend with all the saints what
286 II,15 | we discover that the most comprehensive and fitting biblical-theological
287 III,26 | authentic — is capable of comprising the two polarities of subject
288 I,13 | come from experiences and conceptions which, in the past, ran
289 IV,35 | and God's plan as it is concretised in Jesus; between their
290 III,24 | assents to the sentence condemning Stephen; this is the same
291 III,28 | condition of every believer is condensed. This is his dignity and
292 III,25(61)| Symposium of European Episcopal Conferences, 11.10.1985.~
293 IV,34 | is in the manner of the confessio fidei.~One involved in vocational
294 II,21 | In the Liturgy the joyful confession of belonging to the tradition
295 I,12 | of life.~Europe needs new confessors: of the faith and of the
296 I,13 | tiredness or of a lack of confidence because of the few results;
297 I,13 | capable of going beyond the confines of the believing community.
298 II,18 | precept of love. This is about confirming and renewing the vocational
299 I,11 | recent, sometimes violent, conflicts. A unity which is yet to
300 II,17 | every believer is called to conform himself to the risen Christ
301 II,17 | predestining us to be conformed to His image (cf Rom 8,
302 III,26 | are difficult and not in conformity to the mentality of the
303 I,13 | meets the lay conscience and confronts itself with it. With generosity
304 I,11 | deluded by ideologies, confused by ethical disorientation.~
305 II,18 | countercurrent witnesses to the most confusing event in the world: the
306 IV,35 | of misunderstanding or of confusion of identity; life appears
307 I,13(17) | Romano" 18XII1992; cf also Congregation for Catholic Education,
308 Intro,3 | there was a common thread connecting all the acts and every moment
309 I,13 | is another element that connects pre-Congress reflection
310 III,27 | centres receive a vocational connotation in listening to the Word
311 IV,37 | grace or a lament? Does he consciously or unconsciously feel that
312 IV,37 | significant. Planning to consecrate oneself to God means in
313 III,29(94)| Bogotà (Colombia), at the Consejo Episcopal Latino Americano (
314 IV,36 | level of vocations, the consequences are clear. If there is a
315 I,11 | incomplete and weak identity with consequent chronic indecision in the
316 I,11 | East the problem of how to conserve their newly refound freedom
317 III,29 | for some years now with considerable advantage.~However this
318 I,11 | Europe, on which it invests considerably to build its future, on
319 II,16 | according to a plan that God considers appropriate for him.~Then
320 II,16 | awareness that life is a consigning to freedom of the individual
321 II,18 | mission. Witnessing does not consist only in suggesting the words
322 III,25 | effective only when it creates consistency of life, principally, in
323 Intro,2 | who is the source of every consolation and author of every vocation.~
324 III,26 | is more pro-vocative than consoling; capable, in any case, of
325 II,16(31) | John Paul II, Familiaris consortio, 11.~
326 IV,37 | values (gratuitousness, constancy, moderation, honesty...)". (106)~
327 III,25 | ecclesia"), who by her in-built constitution is vocation, at the same
328 III,26 | vocation means speaking of the constitutive and essential dimension
329 IV,35 | going further, but they constrained him, saying, 'Stay with
330 IV,36 | pastoral work for vocations is constructed on this elementary catechesis
331 III,29 | guarantee a notable support of constructive stimuli for pastoral work
332 IV,34 | and of life, that Jesus constructs His approach to the woman
333 Intro,6 | passionate as to make it contagious. Nothing is more logical
334 II,23 | so that, in her, we can contemplate a perfect vocational plan,
335 II,17 | the believing community contemplates the supreme epiphany of
336 III,27 | himself has planned: in the contemplation of the mystery, the believer
337 I,12 | world and in history with a contemplative's heart, and mystics so
338 I,11 | significant in different contexts. Accordingly, if in the
339 I,13 | product of a critical and contingent situation.~Vocations promotion
340 II,18 | undertake the mission of Jesus continued in the community. Committing
341 II,17 | indeed its maturity, lies in continuing Jesus in the world so as,
342 IV,37 | opposed polarities of life, continuously drawn between the certainty
343 I,11 | its niche.~Different and contrasting "values" are represented
344 I,11 | without vocation"~This game of contrasts is reflected inevitably
345 IV,37 | adults, parents included, contributed to creating a negative image
346 Conclu,38 | preparation and in some way contributes to guiding it in two directions.~
347 IV,37(112)| tendencies" (39), even if this "controlling" is understood — we maintain —
348 III,26 | vocational possibilities, later converging towards the definitive personal
349 III,29 | crises in institutions.~Yet, conversely, there is emerging, especially
350 III,26 | as can be seen from the conversions and the type of life of
351 IV,34 | in passion and ability to convince, a wise and experiential
352 IV,37 | his social interaction and cordial friendship, and that sense
353 II,15 | figure of the community of Corinth presents the gifts of the
354 IV,37 | of identification at the corporeal level (= the body as the
355 III,26 | The idea should also be corrected that pastoral work for vocations
356 IV,36 | model itself on the same correlation of meanings: life, too,
357 III,28 | commitment that will not correspond to the tastes of the young
358 IV,37 | the young person, to which corresponds, on the part of the one
359 I,11 | and independence at all costs, on the other, as a refuge,
360 I,12 | strongly underlined by the Council(13) and reiterated afterwards,
361 III,29 | diocesan and parish Pastoral Councils in relationship with the
362 I,13 | is always a pessimistic counsellor, gives way to Christian
363 III,27 | rejoiced "that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour
364 II,18 | every disciple, to make them countercurrent witnesses to the most confusing
365 I,11 | Accordingly, if in the countries of the East the problem
366 III,26 | also with parents, engaged couples, sick people and the elderly...)
367 III,26 | young people, rather it covers a wider spectrum with specific
368 II,19 | called be in Christ as new creatures modelled on Him.~Every vocation
369 III,29 | joining together, or by crises in institutions.~Yet, conversely,
370 I,13 | Europe at today's decisive crossroad.~— If vocations promotion
371 IV,36 | Formation is in some way the culmination of the pedagogical process,
372 III,29 | community, is the "direct cultivator" of all vocations.~In truth
373 I,11 | that in a Europe which is culturally complex and deprived of
374 II,17 | embrace the little ones, to cure the sick, to reconcile sinners
375 II,18 | have already said, is also current in this era of the Church
376 III,24 | 2, 14), an address that cuts those that hear it "to the
377 IV,37 | shows himself capable of cutting himself off from the logic
378 III,29 | ordinary time, the recurring cycle of the liturgical year celebrates
379 Conclu,39 | people of Europe your same daring courage; that same courage
380 IV,35 | knows that without the Lord darkness descends on life, without
381 I,10 | the situation and listing data, but we shall seek to grasp
382 Intro,1 | today, to call the sons and daughters of this Church to proclaim
383 III,24 | inhabited by the Spirit.~At the dawn of this singular history,
384 I,12 | by the climate of social de-Christianisation (real but perhaps not so
385 II,22(50) | vocation of the permanent deacon. Permanent deacons are already
386 IV,37 | be said, by analogy, when dealing with the discernment of
387 Intro,4 | give you the truth! Know, dearest young people, that the Church
388 Intro,2 | vocations, notwithstanding the dearth of results in some of the
389 I,13 | the vocations crisis by debatable methods, for example by "
390 III,27 | vocations during these last decades. Post-conciliar vocations
391 IV,37 | vocational maturity is decided by an essential element
392 IV,35 | lived and which waits to be deciphered and realised; mystery is
393 IV,35 | central meaning, but of deciphering, in the mysterious fabric
394 III,27 | as well as the beauty of dedicating oneself to others.~The authentic
395 IV,37 | one can trust; it is not deduced from the guarantee of one'
396 IV,35 | method:~— is at the same time deductive and inductive, or historical-biblical:
397 I,11 | post-Conciliar work has traced a deep and effective furrow.(5)~
398 IV,34 | self-sufficiency, with their deep-seated desire for authenticity
399 III | aspect that we now wish to deepen, especially from the point
400 Intro,2 | fraternal sharing, doctrinal deepening, the encounter of different
401 III,25 | sense, vocation defines the deepest being of the Church, even
402 IV,34 | and this was obviously a deeply touching experience if John,
403 IV,37 | life, conscious of his own defects and his own potential, aware
404 IV,35 | themselves from their fears and defence mechanisms, conscious and
405 III,26 | problems, expectations, defences, time or stage in life.~
406 I,11 | the North to the South, defending it from every contrary temptation
407 III,26 | often is only apparent or defensive.~The idea should also be
408 IV,37 | indecision in the face of definite commitments, it would seem
409 I,11 | subjectivism, while freedom degenerates into whim.~In this context
410 Intro,2(1)| 253 delegates from 37 European nations
411 Intro,6 | most difficult and most delicate".(3) However we wish also
412 III,26 | programmatic objective we shall delineate certain theoretical-practical
413 I,13 | environment), today no-one should delude himself about resolving
414 IV,37 | are born of sufferings, delusions, or various incidents that
415 III,25 | promotion is the prayer demanded by the Saviour (Mt 9, 38).
416 Conclu,39 | and promoting civil and democratic forms of social life, so
417 IV,33 | rather it is negated or denied; and, suffocated by other
418 Intro,8 | its different Christian denominations, the most significant fruits
419 I,13 | person, even in those who deny it, then this culture could
420 III,29(94)| Americano (CELAM), there is the Departimento de Vocaciones y Ministerios (
421 II,16 | initiative, it does not depend on his merits, nor is it
422 II,22 | precisely the Church's direct dependence on Christ, who continues
423 I,11 | refuge, they tend to be very dependent on the socio-cultural context,
424 I,11 | is culturally complex and deprived of fixed points of reference,
425 I,11 | type of vocations which derive from it. At the Congress
426 IV,34 | 24, 13-16).~In order to describe the pedagogical expressions
427 I,11 | without vocation".~A possible description of this: "A pluralistic
428 III,26 | not a prize for the most deserving, but a grace and gift of
429 II,16 | dispositions. The Father knows, designs, inserts the instinct, places
430 IV,37 | who does not presume nor despair in the face of his negative
431 I,11 | Europe as wounded, but not in desperation; influenced by ethical relativism,
432 III,27 | serving the community and developing specific vocations.~Another
433 III,24 | cenacle "and with one accord devoted themselves to prayer...with
434 IV,33 | and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on
435 III,29(94)| Vocaciones y Ministerios (DEVYM). This organisation was
436 I,13(17) | per la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per le vocazioni,
437 II,22 | the Shepherd")(49) and diaconal (the sacramental sign of
438 Intro,1 | vocations to the priesthood, the diaconate and the consecrated life
439 IV,37 | which constitute the natural dialectic of the I and human life.
440 IV,34 | vocational accompaniment is not didactic or exhortational, and neither
441 I,13 | which is already widely diffused with regard to these topics,
442 III,24 | elements, such as their diligence in listening to the teachings
443 IV,34 | it that of the spiritual director on the other (understood
444 III,29 | practices have not totally disappeared.(92)~Regarding diocesan
445 IV,35 | seed of a vocation to be discerned little by little; the seed
446 IV,37(110)| Cf Jurado, Il discernimento, 262. Cf also L.R. Moran, "
447 IV,36 | addressed by Jesus to the disciples-proclaimers of His word, which speaks
448 IV,34 | sister in the faith and in discipleship, who knows the road, the
449 I,13 | the Pope continues: "The discomfort that reveals, through the
450 Intro,6 | easy is the temptation to discouragement when the effort seems useless. "
451 IV,37 | obstacles to its realisation and discouraging those who feel themselves
452 IV,35 | makes the two admit the discrepancy between their hopes and
453 IV,34 | While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself
454 Intro,3 | interventions during sessions to the discussions in study groups, from the
455 II,18 | which are always ready to disfigure the Christian image; and
456 III,27 | counted worthy to suffer dishonour for the name" (Acts 5, 41).~
457 I,11 | today runs the risk of being disorientated and finding himself without
458 I,11 | ideologies, confused by ethical disorientation.~Even more: "from many parts
459 I,11 | even although it still displays the wounds of recent, sometimes
460 III,29 | evoking the mystery of God and disposed to listening in order to
461 Intro,8 | we wish to place at the disposition of the whole Church, in
462 I,10 | the just proportion (or disproportion) between a harvest which
463 III,26 | in terms of tension, of dispute, at times of flight or refusal,
464 IV,33 | immediately evident and disruptive and, in addition, needs
465 I,11 | precise gradation; completely dissimilar codes of reading and evaluation,
466 IV,37 | criteria for discernment, distinguishable in four areas.~Openness
467 IV,37 | inclinations will less and less disturb his life (also his psychological
468 II,17 | engagements, provoked by the most diverse circumstances, were for
469 III,24 | needs begin to grow and diversify, and so deacons are instituted
470 I,12 | close, breaking down "the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph
471 III,27 | experiences of using lectio divina in vocations promotion,
472 I,11 | temple in which all the "divinities" are present, or in which
473 Intro,9 | The divisions of the document~9. Concretely
474 Intro,2 | the fraternal sharing, doctrinal deepening, the encounter
475 IV,37(110)| L.R. Moran, "Orientaciones doctrinales para una pastoral eclesial
476 Intro,8 | not to repeat what other documents have already said, and said
477 III,26 | when isolated; you are not doing the Church's pastoral work
478 I | without vocation" seems to be dominant. The new evangelisation
479 III,27 | realised not with violence and dominion, but with pardon and love,
480 III,26 | and permanent~There is a double universality: in reference
481 I,11 | superfluous to the game or drama of life, as if they have
482 III,26 | case, of transmitting the dramatic sense of the life of man,
483 II,14 | reason, even if it is always dramatically provoked by the problem
484 III,28 | spoiled at root and are of dubious authenticity.~Obviously
485 IV,37 | to carry out his normal duties without creating excessive
486 IV,35 | word, as a drawing out (e-ducere) from him his truth, what
487 IV,35 | invocation. Educating means e-voking the truth of the I. This
488 I,12 | all love.~Our continent is eager not only for holy people,
489 III,25 | her own existential and earthly dimension in the vocation
490 II,17 | instruction of the eve of Easter (Jn 20, 21) and is the last
491 I,11 | vocational flowering of Eastern Europe and the general crisis
492 II,15 | fact these gifts, in the ecclesiological statutes of 1 Corinthians,
493 II,15 | of every anthropology and ecclesiology. Christ is the project of
494 II,23 | prepared her".(52) This is echoed by Saint Augustine: "Before
495 IV,37(110)| doctrinales para una pastoral eclesial de las vocaciones", in Seminarium,
496 III,29 | also the need to support it economically can be a pedagogical tool
497 I,13 | plan for his life for the edification of the Church, and in this
498 IV,33(97) | Osservatore Romano" (English edition) of 13IV1978.~
499 II,23(52) | Bernardi opera, IV, Romae, Editiones Cistercenses, 1966, p. 23.~
500 III,29 | the formation of vocations educators-formators, the true and proper central
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