Pope Benedict XVI's message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations last May 3, 2009 has put into serious question the commitment of every Filipino Catholic whether he or she is truly serious with preserving, deepening, and promoting the faith or be swayed by the tides of secularism and materials around him/her.
He hinted that the everyone is called to a life of holiness, "In the universal call to holiness, of particular relevance is God's initiative of choosing some to follow his Son Jesus Christ more closely, and to be his privileged ministers." No one is exempt from this call. "The Lord freely chooses persons of every culture and of every age and invited them to follow him according to the mysterious plans of his merciful love, the Pope adds.
The first duty according to the Holy Father is to keep alive in families and in parishes, in movements and in apostolic associations, in religious communities and in all the sectors of diocesan life to heed this appeal of the divine initiative with unceasing prayer. "We must pray that the whole Christian people grows in its trust in God, convinced that the Lord of the harvest does not cease to ask some to place their entire existence freely at his service so as to work with him more closely in the mission of salvation," the pope prays.
On the other hand, for those who are called must involve themselves "in careful listening and prudent discernment, a generous and willing adherence to the divine plan, and a serious study of the reality that is proper to the priestly and religious vocations, so as to be able to respond responsibly and with conversion."
Exempting oneself from a life of holiness may greatly affect our adherence to live out God's will in our life; hence, the existence of corruption and immorality around us.
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