You did not choose me, no, I who chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last (John 15:16).
Although Vocations Awareness Week ends today, we have a duty to pray for vocations on a daily basis. We need holy priests, deacons, and people dedicated to consecrated life. Indeed, we should all respond to our baptismal call to holiness and help each other respond to this call – “All the faithful are invited and obliged to try to achieve the holiness and perfection of their own state of life” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, #42).
