PART ONE

THE VOCATIONS SITUATION IN EUROPE TODAY

"The harvest is plentiful,
but the labourers are few" (Mt 9, 37)

This first part constitutes a scholarly look at Europe, fully aware of its cultural complexity, in which an anthropological model of "man without vocation" seems to be dominant. The new evangelisation must proclaim again the strong sense of life as "vocation" in its fundamental call to holiness, recreating a culture favourable to different vocations and ready to promote a real increase in quality in vocations ministry.