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1001 III,25 | mystery of the Church as a mysterium vocationis".(56)~John Paul
1002 I,12 | contemplative's heart, and mystics so familiar with the mystery
1003 II,17 | and to allow Himself to be nailed to the cross for love of
1004 III,26 | as then to restrict and narrow down to the specific call
1005 III,27 | the proclamation of God's nearness to men and women throughout
1006 III,27 | losing his own time for the necessities of others. The experience
1007 Conclu,38 | of the Church's life more needing to open itself to hope than
1008 III,27 | for the poorest and most needy.~Many young people have
1009 IV,33 | agreement; rather it is negated or denied; and, suffocated
1010 Intro,8 | and promote that of their neighbour.~Above all, it will seek
1011 I,11 | of how to conserve their newly refound freedom is highlighted,
1012 | Next
1013 I,11 | value" has its place and its niche.~Different and contrasting "
1014 | nobody
1015 I,11 | of existence, they are nomads: they move around without
1016 II,16 | Will who preferred him to non-existence, loved him before ever he
1017 IV,37 | allow him to carry out his normal duties without creating
1018 IV,35 | 27);~— indicates in the normative nature of the Word and in
1019 I,11 | the East to the West, the North to the South, defending
1020 II,18 | that is not an abstract notion, but God's plan in the life
1021 III,27 | wisdom which is habitually nourished, the eyes and the ears of
1022 III,27 | the expression, origin and nourishment of every vocation and ministry
1023 III,27 | described in Acts, "the number of the disciples multiplied
1024 I,13 | fear (of extinction or of numbering less) and from pretence
1025 I,12 | preoccupied by her smaller numbers nor with placing limits
1026 III,24 | when the early Church was numerically very poor and weak. The
1027 III,26 | open their very lives to numerous vocational possibilities,
1028 Conclu,39 | missionaries, monks and nuns, who with their lives know,
1029 I,12(11) | Paul VI, Evangelii nuntiandi, 2. See also, on this topic,
1030 II,19 | Spirit, she protects them, nurtures them and sustains them.
1031 IV,35 | And he said to them, 'O foolish men, and slow of
1032 II,19 | premises for this openness and obedience.(41)~So, we note that: the
1033 II,17 | mission. It expresses its oblational nature which attains its
1034 III,28 | they not only represent an obligatory path, but above all they
1035 IV,35 | way they are practically obliged to review their recent history,
1036 IV,35 | without His Word there is the obscurity of misunderstanding or of
1037 IV,33 | future!~It is excellent to observe the sower of the parable
1038 I,13 | poverty of which Jesus speaks observing the crowds who followed
1039 IV,37 | consecrated life, even creating obstacles to its realisation and discouraging
1040 IV,34 | unspoken questions, with their obstinate, often only apparent, self-sufficiency,
1041 II,14 | conscience becomes ever more obtuse and the truest questions
1042 II,16 | existence to be something obvious, necessary, casual.~Perhaps
1043 I,11 | surplus of possibilities, occasions, requests, in the face of
1044 IV,35 | the place that he has to occupy in it. Who else, except
1045 IV,37 | excessive tension nor unduly occupying his attention. (112) These
1046 IV,36 | his possibilities, means offending his dignity and impeding
1047 III,27 | Jn 17, 9-26).~The Church offers itself as the human space
1048 II,22 | collaborators in the apostolic office.~The ordained ministry makes
1049 Intro,1 | to God~1. Blessed be the Omnipotent God who has blessed the
1050 | onto
1051 IV,37 | gift from God (this is the ontological level), rather than to the
1052 I,13 | an appropriate ?leap' for opening up new horizons in our Churches".(14)~
1053 II,23(52) | Homilia II, 4: Sancti Bernardi opera, IV, Romae, Editiones Cistercenses,
1054 III | but by means of certain operational principles, in which the
1055 II,15 | the Father the gifts are "operations", because from Him, the
1056 I,13 | every brother and sister.~In opposition to the culture of distraction,
1057 III,29(90)| Cf Optatam totius, 2; DC, 57-59; cf
1058 IV,30 | bodies (groups, communities, oratories, schools and, above all,
1059 II,22 | those who aspire to Holy Orders, so that they might become
1060 I,11 | necessary to begin a truly organic pastoral programme at the
1061 II,19 | order to allow the entire organism to grow and for the common
1062 III,29 | which are the competent organs in all of the communities
1063 IV,37(110)| 262. Cf also L.R. Moran, "Orientaciones doctrinales para una pastoral
1064 II,21(46) | the Apostolic Exhortation Orientale lumen (1995).~
1065 III,26 | and by its very nature, is orientated towards vocational discernment.
1066 II,18 | heard: "I will not leave you orphans" (Jn 14, 18). Those who
1067 Intro,2(1)| sister churches (Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican).~
1068 IV,37 | virtue of prudence, more than ostentatious personal ability. Precisely
1069 | otherwise
1070 | ours
1071 III,26 | and for some, inevitable outcome.~e) Pastoral work for vocations
1072 III,26 | other dimensions, seeking outlets in those directions.~It
1073 IV,36 | His body broken and blood outpoured for the salvation of humanity,
1074 III,27 | limitless.~This is perhaps the outstanding way, in a vocations programme,
1075 | overall
1076 IV,37 | unconsciously feel that life owes him, and therefore is still
1077 III,29 | truth the full vocational ownership of the parish community
1078 IV,35 | discover the ambivalent and pagan roots of certain mental
1079 III,24 | by God to proclaim to the pagans the mystery hidden for centuries
1080 III,25 | drawn from the present papal magisterium, so that they
1081 III,26 | Indeed, death is the call "par excellence", in the same
1082 IV,37(110)| Orientaciones doctrinales para una pastoral eclesial de
1083 IV,35 | mystery~And here is the paradox. When the young person is
1084 III,27 | violence and dominion, but with pardon and love, with the gift
1085 III,26 | Hebrews and foreigners: Parthians, Medes and Elamites represent
1086 III,25 | workers, nor an isolated or partial moment, determined by an
1087 Intro,2 | They have confirmed in each participant the will to continue to
1088 II,17 | extent of the cross.~He who participates in the Eucharist welcomes
1089 II,19 | Hence the intrinsic participation of every vocation in the
1090 III,25 | arrives at the Church and passes through her mediation. The
1091 I,12 | of being in a period of passing from one shore to the other".(12)~
1092 Intro,6 | own vocation, which is so passionate as to make it contagious.
1093 I,11 | On the one hand, they are passionately searching for authenticity,
1094 I,13 | impressed on man, at the pastoral-ecclesial level they respond to the
1095 I,13 | should be made from the "pathology of tiredness"(25) and resignation,
1096 III,27 | virtue, but also a vocational pathway. Only by living it, can
1097 II,19 | does not offer considered pathways for the proposal of a vocation
1098 II,21 | far-reaching process requires time, patience, respect for the sensibilities
1099 II,21 | their respective liturgical patrimonies, which contribute in an
1100 II,21 | juridical and spiritual patrimony of the Churches to which
1101 II,15 | one" (1 Cor 12, 4-6).~The Pauline image clearly highlights
1102 III,29(94)| America, held at Itaici (Sao Paulo of Brazil) from 23 to 27
1103 III,29 | while safeguarding the peculiarities of each one.~
1104 III,25 | of vocations ministry and pedagogical-pastoral praxis.~"The pastoral care
1105 I,13 | elements are progressively penetrating the conscience of believers,
1106 IV,33 | individual people: the work and penetration of God into the heart of
1107 IV,36 | Cleopas and his companion perceive also the meaning of their
1108 IV,37 | of life as the place for perceiving a presence and an appeal
1109 II,16 | speaking our name.~And then the perception that life is a gift should
1110 II,23 | vocation.~Mary, finally, is the perfectly realised image of woman,
1111 I,13 | from promotion made up of periodic initiatives and episodes
1112 III,27 | believers who gather together periodically in their homes to rediscover
1113 III,29 | experts in order to reach the peripheral areas of the particular
1114 III,29 | with a new spirit that must permeate pastoral work for vocations
1115 III,26 | Therefore pastoral work shall be permeated by vocational attention,
1116 IV,37 | criteria must all be present to permit a positive discernment.~
1117 IV,34 | while the search risks perpetuating itself in an interminable
1118 III,24 | cf 6, 8-7,70). Saul, the persecutor of Christians, also assents
1119 III,26 | the same appeal is to be personalised, directed to a precise person,
1120 III,29 | the Lord.~Strong spiritual personalities are not only people particularly
1121 III,28 | classical itineraries, that pertain to the very life of each
1122 I,11 | the general crisis which pervades the West, but because, within
1123 IV,37 | particular in the strategic phases of re-elaboration and re-appropriation
1124 I,11 | at the most, will be a photocopy of the present.~d) The vocation
1125 III,26 | pastoral work does not "pierce the heart" and place the
1126 IV,36 | simply a commotion within the pilgrims who listen to the explanation
1127 Conclu,39 | the Epiphany of the Lord.~Pio Card. Laghi~President~José
1128 II,19 | plan of the Kingdom and plant there the seed of the Gospel.~
1129 I,11 | as ever and is called to play an important role on the
1130 II,19 | histories the human being plays out his liberty.~a) In the
1131 IV,33 | for him); or perhaps he is pleased about it and interested,
1132 I,12 | and suffering, of work and pleasure.~It is necessary to clarify
1133 IV,35 | this unfinished story the plight of so many young people
1134 I,13 | vocations — vocations in the plural — is above all an absence
1135 I,11 | in this culture which is pluralist and ambivalent, "polytheist"
1136 I,11 | description of this: "A pluralistic and complex culture tends
1137 IV,34 | vocations cannot follow a policy of wait and see but should
1138 I,11 | which can not only be of a political or economic nature, but
1139 I,11 | pluralist and ambivalent, "polytheist" and neutral. On the one
1140 I,13(17) | Ecclesiastical Vocations, Messaggi Pontifici per la Giornata mondiale
1141 II,15(28) | Paul VI, Populorum progressio, 15.~
1142 IV,36(102)| Porposition 23 states: "It is important
1143 II,17 | speak" to him about God and portray the image of a son. Hence,
1144 I,11 | to produce young people possessing an incomplete and weak identity
1145 IV,37 | in every case re-taking possession of the life that you plan
1146 IV,37 | Discernment by the guide~In the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores
1147 IV,37 | own defects and his own potential, aware of the gift of having
1148 IV,37(112)| sense the recommendation of Potissimum Institutioni, about homosexuality,
1149 I,13(17) | le vocazioni, Rome 1994, pp.241-245).~
1150 II,18 | that of making possible and practicable vocations of and in the
1151 III,29 | ecclesial perspectives and practices have not totally disappeared.(92)~
1152 I,11 | certain theologies or pastoral practises not «produce» vocations,
1153 II,18 | to overcome a widespread pragmatism and a sterile exteriority
1154 IV,35 | most beautiful prayer ever prayed by the human heart: "Stay
1155 III,27 | breaking of bread and the prayers" (Acts 2, 42). Every decision,
1156 IV,33 | choice or pretending that a pre-adolescent has the same maturity to
1157 I,13 | another element that connects pre-Congress reflection with analysis
1158 IV,37 | abilities as the only and pre-eminent guarantee of self-regard),
1159 II,17 | Him, and to be sent out to preach" (Mk 3, 14). In order to
1160 III,27 | vocational itinerary for preadolescents and adolescents. The time
1161 III,27 | decision, in this community, is preceded by prayer; every choice,
1162 III,28 | person must learn to give it precedence, if he truly wants to discover
1163 III,28 | Objectivity, in this sense, precedes subjectivity, and the young
1164 II,18 | particularly, the great precept of love. This is about confirming
1165 IV,34 | as Saint Luke notes with precision, who comes down to man's
1166 II,17 | his nature" (Heb 1, 3), predestining us to be conformed to His
1167 Conclu,38 | hope is founded not on our predictions and calculations, which
1168 II,16 | itself a mystery, of absolute predilection and gratuitousness.~a) "...
1169 IV,35 | provoked and show a good predisposition, but then stop when they
1170 II,16 | willed by a good Will who preferred him to non-existence, loved
1171 I,13(17) | la Giornata mondiale di preghiera per le vocazioni, Rome 1994,
1172 II,18 | the spiritual life is the premise for responding to the nostalgia
1173 II,19 | there that has created the premises for this openness and obedience.(41)~
1174 II,22 | the seminary must become a preoccupation of the whole diocesan Church
1175 I,12 | caring for the poor, not preoccupied by her smaller numbers nor
1176 III,26 | its very nature, demands a preparatory attention and formation
1177 II,17 | Eucharist generates the witness, prepares the mission: "Go in peace".
1178 II,22 | the apostolic succession), presbyteral (which is the "sacramental
1179 II,22 | Bishop, therefore, with his presbyterate, is called to discern and
1180 II,19 | appeal and herself calls, presenting her needs for the mission
1181 III,29 | the experiential phase, presently taking place in many Churches
1182 II,15 | the community of Corinth presents the gifts of the Spirit,
1183 Conclu,39 | the Lord.~Pio Card. Laghi~President~José Saraiva Martins~Titular
1184 I,13 | in the new generations, pressing questions on the meaning
1185 IV,37 | project, and who does not presume nor despair in the face
1186 III,26 | related to the other, and presupposes and solicits it, while all
1187 IV,33 | hurrying the times of choice or pretending that a pre-adolescent has
1188 II,18 | to make the logic of love prevail over the logic of private
1189 IV,33 | at the right time could prevent the sprouting of the seed: "
1190 III,26 | various types of call: to life primarily, and then to love; to responsibility
1191 III,26 | work: it is perhaps its principal objective, as a challenge
1192 III,25 | creates consistency of life, principally, in the one praying, and
1193 II,19 | constitute two faces of the same prism. They define the gift and
1194 III,27 | even if "celebrated" in the privacy of one's own "cell", it
1195 III,27 | has learned to savour as a privilege the opportunity of washing
1196 III,26 | the people; it is not a prize for the most deserving,
1197 III,29 | Christian communities, and prizing what is already vocationally
1198 III,26 | different movements (from the pro-life movement to the various
1199 III,26 | which the proclamation and pro-vocation is addressed, with the art
1200 III,26 | pastoral work that is more pro-vocative than consoling; capable,
1201 IV,37 | past, especially the most problematic, and the subsequent liberty
1202 II,18 | vocation of the Church~However, proceeding effectively towards this
1203 IV,34 | God for him. This journey proceeds in stages in the company
1204 IV,34 | and at times narcissistic procession of experiences, even vocational,
1205 III,26 | the Christian message is proclaimed and received ("to the heart").~
1206 IV,34 | becoming, in some way, His proclaimer.~Jesus' sovereign liberty
1207 III,26 | of every Christian.~This produces a vocational strategy that
1208 I,11 | a mentality which risks producing a type of antivocational
1209 I,13 | respect to others, a recent product of a critical and contingent
1210 IV,34 | impose it, obviously, but to profess the beauty of a life lived
1211 I,11 | the future to a choice of profession, to economic organisation,
1212 Intro,1 | that saves, in married and professional life, in culture and politics,
1213 I,12 | languages of our society; professionals and simple people who are
1214 III,26 | pastoral work. To attain this programmatic objective we shall delineate
1215 II,15(28) | Paul VI, Populorum progressio, 15.~
1216 I,13 | is born of faith and is projected towards newness and the
1217 II,18 | Even after having lived a prolonged experience with the Lord,
1218 II,18 | the renewal of baptismal promises and asks the one to be confirmed
1219 IV,33 | of vocation at the most promising moment is part of the wisdom
1220 II,20 | between the Churches shall be promoted and encouraged.~
1221 IV | extraordinary vocational promoter-educator, Jesus, and in view of a
1222 III,26 | to be the first vocations promoters-educators; or how valuable would be
1223 IV,35 | of mystery is becoming a propaedeutic category of the faith. It
1224 II,22 | our own, then, in need of prophecy, it is wise to encourage
1225 II,22 | necessary to encourage the prophetic aspects typical of every
1226 I,10 | our actions and the just proportion (or disproportion) between
1227 IV,33 | to weaken the vocational proposition and allow us, perhaps, to
1228 III,25 | its active agents, as its protagonists, the ecclesial community
1229 I,10 | greater and our few strengths. Protected from every pessimistic interpretation
1230 II,19 | power of the Spirit, she protects them, nurtures them and
1231 Intro,2(1)| from the sister churches (Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican).~
1232 III | analysis of the situation provided us with the framework of
1233 I,13 | existing. The vocation is the providential thought of the Creator for
1234 IV,36(103)| returns in the form of a provocation in the words of Paul to
1235 IV,37 | affective-sexual area, a prudent discernment must take account
1236 IV,37 | Under what conditions can we prudently welcome the vocational request
1237 IV,36 | force" the young person psychologically to consider the offering
1238 Intro,8(4)| Vocations, Itaicì 1994 (published in "Seminarium" 34 $[1994$~
1239 I,13 | serious questions in the pulping of words, there is a culture
1240 Intro,5 | which your children and pupils might discover their own
1241 II,19 | ministry, rooted in the pure gratuity of the gift. The
1242 III,29 | This can be effectively pursued if three dimensions of the
1243 III,27 | community of welcome, which puts into practice the invitation
1244 I,11 | the midst of such a great quantity and diversity of information,
1245 I,13 | another (or by Another) and be questioned by life, faith in oneself
1246 III,27 | that this lesson was very quickly learned, given that service
1247 III,26 | In the passage we have quoted, this vocational attention
1248 II,16 | 15). "Creating the human race in his own image and continually
1249 IV,37 | slant of generosity and radicality, precisely because it is
1250 IV,34(100)| the Gospel and in a life radically dedicated to it in consecration,
1251 I,13 | conceptions which, in the past, ran the risk of marginalising
1252 III,29(93)| cultural situation which is rapidly changing, the initial formation
1253 IV,37 | is not strange, nor is it rare that the young person exhibit
1254 IV,37 | phases of re-elaboration and re-appropriation of one's own past, especially
1255 IV,37 | the strategic phases of re-elaboration and re-appropriation of
1256 I,12 | the new holiness which can re-evangelise Europe and build a new Europe!~
1257 IV,37 | vocation discovered and re-found, which immediately, as is
1258 I,12 | liberty, and for an ethical re-foundation of European culture and
1259 IV,37 | God means in every case re-taking possession of the life that
1260 I,13 | not only an invitation to react to feelings of tiredness
1261 IV,33 | this fearful and negative reaction; the Lord has already said
1262 IV,35 | some of his attitudes and reactions and, at the same time, understands
1263 III,27 | evident.(83)~The Congress reaffirmed the importance of catechesis
1264 III,26 | today~In this sense it can really be said that we must "vocationalise"
1265 III,26 | order which it does not seem reasonable to change and which, generally,
1266 IV,33 | smallest of all the seeds~For reasons already known to us the
1267 Conclu,38 | filled with hope, in order to reawaken it in children, adolescents
1268 II,18 | asceticism and interior rebirth, so that each one may recover
1269 IV,33 | refusal. It is worthwhile here recalling the words of Paul VI: "Let
1270 II,15 | source of life, every being receives its own specific dynamism.~
1271 IV,33 | the dispositions of the recipient. But the liberty of God
1272 II,20 | has sown everywhere and reciprocal help between the Churches
1273 IV,35 | lived events (the facts recited by the two disciples) and
1274 IV,36 | second "recognition": the recognition-discovery, within the Eucharistic
1275 IV,37(112)| See in this sense the recommendation of Potissimum Institutioni,
1276 I,13 | as the Holy Father has recommended in his Message at the end
1277 III,29 | not lived.~In addition to recommending a renewal of commitment
1278 IV,35 | reading: capable not only of reconstructing the events around a central
1279 IV,37 | it is also the sign of a recovery of one's own identity, almost
1280 I | fundamental call to holiness, recreating a culture favourable to
1281 III,25 | with the purpose simply of recruiting pastoral workers, nor an
1282 I,13 | the objective seemed to be recruitment, and the methodology was
1283 II,21 | for all of their Churches, recuperating and maintaining their respective
1284 III,29 | Pentecost and ordinary time, the recurring cycle of the liturgical
1285 II,22 | presence of Christ, the Redeemer",(48) and expresses precisely
1286 I,12(11) | Christifideles laici, 33-34, and Redemptoris missio, 33-34.~
1287 I,12 | Europe which is profoundly redesigning itself; the same Lord in
1288 III,27(79)| the life of a Church that rediscovers ?communion' and where the
1289 I,11 | horizons which, effectively, reduce the desire for freedom and
1290 I,11 | self-realisation).~This logic reduces the future to a choice of
1291 III,29 | female" vocations also need references to female figures, personal
1292 I,13 | time vocations promotion referred only or mainly to certain
1293 I,11 | the inevitable vocational reflections, it is practically impossible
1294 I,11 | to conserve their newly refound freedom is highlighted,
1295 I,11 | costs, on the other, as a refuge, they tend to be very dependent
1296 III,26 | withdrawn once it has been refused. Instead it must be a continual
1297 IV,33 | And then the young person refuses, declares himself not to
1298 IV,35 | the future and newness, of refusing a conception of life that
1299 IV,33 | taken seriously; or it is regarded with suspicion and diffidence,
1300 Intro,3 | ministry... Therefore we must regenerate it in priests, educators,
1301 I,12 | underlined by the Council(13) and reiterated afterwards, in various circumstances,
1302 IV,37(112)| about homosexuality, to reject not those who have such
1303 IV,35 | existential events, without rejecting any event, especially the
1304 III,27 | that of the Apostles who rejoiced "that they were counted
1305 III,25 | communicate the faith. That relates to the universal Church,
1306 I,11 | desperation; influenced by ethical relativism, but also wishing to live
1307 I,11 | temptation of isolation and reliance and concern only for one'
1308 Intro,5 | vocation, and how much it relies on your vocation to promote
1309 II,17 | is called to repeat and relive the sentiments of the Son,
1310 IV,33 | seed of vocations, of not remaining within the usual limits
1311 IV,37 | other hand, it should be remembered that very often these and
1312 II,17 | sacrament and in life, to live "remembering", in the truth and liberty
1313 II,18 | things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to
1314 III,29 | the seminary is a concrete reminder of the vocational nature
1315 IV,36 | Psychological analysis also reminds us of this: to ask of a
1316 II,14 | risk of being stifled or removed. The meaning of life, today,
1317 Conclu,39 | us from taking risks and renders life flat and without taste,
1318 II,18 | is about confirming and renewing the vocational fidelity
1319 II,18 | the one to be confirmed to renounce sin and the works of evil,
1320 IV,35 | conception of life that is repetitive and passive, boring and
1321 II,16 | it becomes a responsible reply in the building up of a
1322 II,22 | which is the "sacramental representation of Jesus Christ... the Shepherd")(49)
1323 Intro,2(1)| and included also some representatives from the sister churches (
1324 III,25(60)| Chrisitans living in a place and representing the Church in a real way,
1325 II,18 | Spirit sanctifier seeks to reproduce this "divine imprint" in
1326 III,26 | the imitation of Christ required of every Christian.~This
1327 IV,37 | also be present these three requirements:~1° that the young person
1328 I,11 | analysis, the most recent research describes the young people
1329 I,13 | pathology of tiredness"(25) and resignation, which justifies itself
1330 I,11 | of life, as if they have resigned in the face of it, been
1331 I,13 | themselves by seeking to resolve the vocations crisis by
1332 IV,37 | this problem will not be resolved with a banal propaganda
1333 Conclu,39 | one who never ceases to resonate and call, free the old continent
1334 Conclu,38 | admit to not having fully responded to this call, of having
1335 IV,37 | calls and the individual who responds. The young person who has
1336 II,16 | acquires the significance of a responsorial experience: it becomes a
1337 III,25 | associates itself in the rest of the believing community
1338 III,26 | directed to all), so as then to restrict and narrow down to the specific
1339 Intro,6 | above all related to the reticence of some witnesses which
1340 II,19 | calling. At times they are reticent and lacking in courage.
1341 IV,37 | written (cf Apoc 2, 17-18), or returning to the springs of the I.~
1342 I,12 | blood scattered peoples are reunited and those far away become
1343 IV,35 | are practically obliged to review their recent history, bringing
1344 Intro,3 | to hope, and which now is rewarded by a renewed flowering of
1345 III,26 | prudence, according to a rhythm which will take account
1346 IV,33 | Every person has his own rhythms and time for maturing. The
1347 IV,34 | the voice of He who calls rings out with greater clarity
1348 III,24 | Holy Spirit descends with riotous effect and fills the house
1349 II,14 | question of meaning which rises up, more or less clearly,
1350 III,24 | of salvation, regularly risking their lives, but always
1351 Intro,3 | was hard and personally risky to believe and to hope,
1352 II,18(38) | Rite of Confirmation.~
1353 IV,31 | significance: when Jesus walks the roads of Galilee He is always
1354 IV,37 | believer means finding that rock on which one's name is written (
1355 I,13 | of Abraham even from the rocks (cf Mt 3, 9);~— if before
1356 IV,33 | them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had not
1357 II,23(52) | Sancti Bernardi opera, IV, Romae, Editiones Cistercenses,
1358 Intro,2 | received during the days of the Roman assembly, just as the martyrs
1359 IV,37 | second order of criteria rotate around the concept of "identity".
1360 Intro,4 | be if this letter would rouse up in you some kind of response,
1361 III,28 | they represent the main route of pastoral work for vocations,
1362 IV,30 | a pedagogy, can outline routes, with the sincere desire
1363 III,27 | defined this as the "golden rule of pastoral work for vocations".(81)
1364 III,24 | timid and fearful, with a rumble, a wind, a fire... "And
1365 III,26 | without anticipating or rushing the proposals, but making
1366 IV,34 | young people today, a little saddened and betrayed, who seem to
1367 IV,35 | the most difficult and the saddest ("Was it not necessary that
1368 III,29 | national Churches,(94) while safeguarding the peculiarities of each
1369 III,24 | witnesses in Jerusalem and Samaria and to the end of the earth" (
1370 IV,34 | Jesus' meeting with the Samaritan woman. The woman, in fact,
1371 Intro,7 | Finally, we wish to be "Samaritans of hope" for those brothers
1372 IV,34 | two men of Emmaus, or like Samuel during the night, our young
1373 II,23(52) | Matris", Homilia II, 4: Sancti Bernardi opera, IV, Romae,
1374 IV,32 | accompanies along the path of sanctification.~These aspects open up particular
1375 II,18 | perfect consoler", the Spirit sanctifier seeks to reproduce this "
1376 Conclu,39 | promote projects of new sanctity, for the birth of a new
1377 III,29(94)| America, held at Itaici (Sao Paulo of Brazil) from 23
1378 Conclu,39 | Card. Laghi~President~José Saraiva Martins~Titular Archbishop
1379 IV,34 | he was with his journey, sat down beside the well" (Jn
1380 I,11 | to sentimental-emotional satisfaction, within horizons which,
1381 II,17 | Father, and we shall be satisfied" (Jn 14, 9).~This is Philip'
1382 II,14 | the immediate or from what satisfies our needs, the conscience
1383 IV,37 | emphasise the positive, satisfying aspects of a vocation, but
1384 IV,33 | all because He wants to save all and call them to Himself.~
1385 III,27 | the one who has learned to savour as a privilege the opportunity
1386 IV,35 | but they constrained him, saying, 'Stay with us, for it is
1387 I,13 | same way, the "vocations scapegoat", a willing and often solitary
1388 IV,33 | Sowing at the right time~To scatter the good seed of vocation
1389 I,12 | same Lord in whose blood scattered peoples are reunited and
1390 II,19 | be reduced to a general schema; the history of every person
1391 I | first part constitutes a scholarly look at Europe, fully aware
1392 Intro,8 | Congress to life~8. The scope of this document, therefore,
1393 IV,33 | when the sun rose they were scorched; and since they had no root
1394 II,18 | and His gift of love ("Be sealed with the gift of the Holy
1395 IV,35 | genetic-historical because it searches out and finds in one's own
1396 III,25 | vocations is not an accessory or secondary element, with the purpose
1397 III,29 | the communities and in all sectors of ordinary pastoral work".(87)~
1398 IV,37 | feet, he must possess that security and autonomy that will facilitate
1399 II,23 | hope given to us so that, seeing her, we too may welcome
1400 | seemed
1401 II,16(30) | belief in that God who ?sees' and ?calls' from the mother'
1402 II,15 | community, on the one hand, is seized by the mystery of God and
1403 IV,36 | realised in the perspective of self-giving; it will be happy on condition
1404 IV,36 | self, between theophany and self-identity. The affirmation of the
1405 IV,37 | series of "recognitions" and "self-recognitions": the effective choice of
1406 IV,37 | pre-eminent guarantee of self-regard), and discover instead the
1407 II,18 | logic of a narcissistic selfishness with regard to one's talents (
1408 II,17 | of one's life a gift. The sending-mission is in fact the instruction
1409 Intro,7 | the Father is calling.~He sends throughout the world the
1410 I,11 | immediate gratification of the senses: on what 'I like', on what '
1411 II,22 | minister~Within this general sensibility, a particular pastoral attention
1412 III,29 | of life-vocation~In this sensitive and urgent move from vocations
1413 III,24 | Christians, also assents to the sentence condemning Stephen; this
1414 I,11 | economic organisation, or to sentimental-emotional satisfaction, within horizons
1415 III,26 | precise choice. There is no separation, nor less still a contrast
1416 IV,33 | projects, it is not taken seriously; or it is regarded with
1417 II,15 | fact "he came not to be served, and to give his life..." (
1418 III,27 | freedom in Christ.~Whoever serves his brother or sister, inevitably
1419 II,19 | dynamism of many ministerial services. This is possible in docility
1420 Intro,3 | the interventions during sessions to the discussions in study
1421 Conclu,39 | same courage that one day set you free to believe in a
1422 Intro,8 | mystagogic, and therefore sets out again and again from
1423 IV,34 | village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and
1424 IV,37 | problem, which often is not sexual in origin.~2° The second
1425 IV,31 | and passive, received and shared, is contained the sense
1426 I,12 | courageous even to the shedding of blood; virgins who would
1427 IV,34 | everywhere and in everyone also shines out from this passage; but
1428 I,12 | period of passing from one shore to the other".(12)~a) The "
1429 III,24 | this is the same man who, shortly, will be chosen by God to
1430 IV,37 | impossible burdens on weak shoulders.~Vocational docibilitas~
1431 IV,36 | vocational choice means showing more and more the connection
1432 I,11 | before has the old continent shown forth so strongly the call
1433 IV,33 | grown it is the greatest of shrubs" (Mt 13, 32); therefore
1434 III,26 | personal vocation; that the sick-believer has the "duty" to live for
1435 IV,37 | other fears and indecision signal weakness not only of the
1436 IV,37 | from the search for those signals that indicate the presence
1437 IV,33 | dialogue, made up of words and silence, of messages and actions,
1438 IV,35 | learned to listen to the silences of God. Not anyone can teach
1439 II,16 | encourage the process of similarity with the Father which is
1440 II,18 | be confirmed to renounce sin and the works of evil, which
1441 II,19 | dialogue with the modern world, sincerely welcoming traditions and
1442 IV,35 | it to what it should be: sincerity is a fundamental necessity
1443 I,13 | who chooses sinners from a sinful people, who makes of Amos,
1444 II,18 | at the same time, are one single vocation, to unity of love
1445 IV,36 | thanksgiving, that Mary sings in the "Magnificat".~d)
1446 II,21(46) | Apostoli (1985) and Ut unum sint (1995) and in the Apostolic
1447 IV,33 | some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty" (Mt 13, 3-
1448 I,11 | Greco-Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Slav).~These are also its richness
1449 II,21(46) | in the Encyclical Letters Slavorum Apostoli (1985) and Ut unum
1450 IV,35 | them, 'O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all
1451 II,16 | thankful attitude, but should slowly suggest the first big response
1452 I,12 | not preoccupied by her smaller numbers nor with placing
1453 I,13 | that nothing and no-one can smother in man the demand for meaning
1454 III,28 | can not, by definition, be smothered. Only respect for this objective
1455 I,10 | therefore, with taking a snapshot of the situation and listing
1456 IV,37 | give his utmost, able to socialise and appreciate the beauty
1457 III,29 | Beyond these different sociological configurations, especially
1458 I,12 | no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens
1459 III,26 | other, and presupposes and solicits it, while all of them together
1460 IV,37 | been called must show the solidity of the act of belief while
1461 Conclu,39 | like no other creature, the solitude of the fullest intimacy
1462 III,29 | and has voted that, as soon as possible, they should
1463 IV,34 | and expectations, where, sooner or later, all young people
1464 II,23 | even more mysterious and sorrowful "yes" that will render her
1465 IV,37 | and not simply feeling sorry for oneself in their regard.
1466 II,21 | there is no return to the sources of one's own original tradition,
1467 I,11 | the West, the North to the South, defending it from every
1468 IV,34 | His proclaimer.~Jesus' sovereign liberty in seeking His messengers
1469 IV,32 | even before this, to be sowers of the good seed of vocation,
1470 II,18 | abilities; not only in the spaces which the world allows;
1471 III,26 | are enclosed in your own specialised area.~Naturally the discussion
1472 IV,37 | necessary, even making use of specialists so as not to lay impossible
1473 III,26 | move then to a progressive specification of the call, becoming more
1474 II,19 | vocation is "particular" and is specified in a life project; there
1475 III,26 | rather it covers a wider spectrum with specific aspects.~In
1476 III,27 | attention and generosity will speedily accept God's plan for himself,
1477 IV,34 | Hence it is important to spend time with young people,
1478 II,15(29) | Gaudium et spes, 22.~
1479 III,27 | Acts of the Apostles is a splendid example of this dimension
1480 II,18(35) | Cf Veritatis Splendor, 23-24.~
1481 III,28 | Church are at risk of being spoiled at root and are of dubious
1482 III,29 | culture of individualism, by spontaneous joining together, or by
1483 Intro,1 | and politics, in art and sport, in human and working relationships,
1484 II,23 | her finds and chooses His spouse, the virgin mother of God
1485 IV,33 | soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth
1486 II,16 | the Father is the eternal spring, total gratuitousness, the
1487 IV,33 | right time could prevent the sprouting of the seed: "pastoral experience
1488 IV,34 | This journey proceeds in stages in the company of a bigger
1489 I,13 | competition»".(15)~Indeed, it was stated explicitly at the Congress
1490 IV,36(102)| Porposition 23 states: "It is important to underline
1491 I,11 | situation, in a univocal and static way. We are faced with a
1492 IV,34 | he was staying; and they stayed with him that day" (Jn 1,
1493 IV,34 | came and saw where he was staying; and they stayed with him
1494 II,18 | widespread pragmatism and a sterile exteriority that leads one
1495 II,14 | questions run the risk of being stifled or removed. The meaning
1496 III,26 | of God to the person, and stimulate in the same person a desire
1497 IV,36 | young person needs to be stimulated by lofty ideals, considering
1498 II,19 | function when she helps and stimulates each believer to be aware
1499 Intro,6 | that there is nothing more stimulating than a witness to one's
1500 III,29 | support of constructive stimuli for pastoral work for vocations,
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