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HOMÉLIES

Our human life when it stays in the hand of God, becomes rich of meaning. Separated from the
hand of God, we forget that we are created at the image of God. We forget that our deepest
vocation is a vocation to love! We forget who we are! We need Jesus Christ to never forget who we
are in our own dignity as a human being. We need Jesus Christ to believe in our vocation to love!
Until the end Jesus Christ loved us ‘til the Cross, and He resurrected. We are called to that kind of
love, to give everything as expressing a total gift of oneself.

When we give ourselves totally in the family, in the work sphere, in society, in religious life,
consecrated life, in the priesthood, when we walk on this path of self-giving, we enrich our lives,
we give meaning to our lives and we serve. We serve the Church, we serve society, we serve
humanity! We participate in the construction of the Kingdom of God by participating in His work
of Creation and His work of Salvation.
This time like we are ‘frozen in time’, where many things are stopped, are on a pause, it is a time
to reflect on our own life. Maybe some years ago, some decades ago I found out my vocation and
I got married or I became a priest or I went into consecrated life. But along the way, the fact of
wanting to serve the love, to serve the love of God, to serve His Church, to love, to serve humanity,
serve others, is an ongoing process! It’s not something that you do one day and then it’s over, or
it’s done. I’m ok, I found my path, I can stop there, because I know what’s the meaning of my life!
It’s like a never-ending process! Always looking for to what love am I called today, here and now!

So there is always the vocation inside the vocation! The vocation to be a husband, but what kind
of husband? A wife, what kind of wife? A nun, what kind of nun? A priest, what kind of priest?
There is always the vocation inside the vocation. It never stops. And as we move ahead, vocation
becomes not so much something that we know about us, but something that we live. We live our
vocation because we live every day in serving to the call of love. The call of Jesus Christ to love
here and now!

Vocation is about tomorrow, but it is also about today. Let us turn to God and ask for the Holy
Spirit to help us grow in our vocation to love, every day here and now.

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