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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nHENRI LE SAUX \n◊◊◊ \nVocations are as diverse as temperaments are diverse. More simply\, we \ncould say that certain temperaments are more predisposed to the solitary life \nand others to life in the world. Among the great vocations there are the Sages \nand there are the Prophets. There are those whom the Holy Spirit compels to \nwithdraw within themselves and to meditate night and day on the Law of the \nLord\, like the inspired scribes of Israel and those first hermits of Mount Carmel. \nAnd there are those who are called to proclaim the Word of God to others. \nIn the world we must have people who testify that God is beyond all \nsymbol\, people who witness to the absolute. We must have people who\, in the \nname of the world\, place the world at the center and who live in this center \nwhere God dwells. We needed some of them even in the Church to ward off \npragmatism which constantly threatens it\, even under the finest outward \nappearances of pastoral and missionary zeal. We need people who take literally \nthe call of Christ to poverty\, to freedom from concern about the morrow\, to \nindifference to all but the one essential thing. We are so made that it is only in \nfellowship\, in collaboration and in one person complementing the qualities of \nanother\, that we are completely capable of putting the Gospel into effect. \nIndeed\, alongside the people who witness to the immutability of God\, \nthere must be people who witness to his activity. Alongside the people who \nwitness to his transcendence\, there must be those who witness to his \nimmanence. \nThere must be people who enter with all their abilities into the Divine plan \nfor the development of the universe and for the growth of the mystical body of \nthe Lord. God did not intend everything in universe to be made all at once. He \nchose to have his creation – and above all\, humanity – working with him. It is \nthrough secondary causes that God leads the world to find its consummation. \nAt the human level\, this collaboration becomes freedom. At the same time it \nbecomes understanding. \nThis means that we are called to use our intelligence to discover how best \nto improve the conditions of human life. We are responsible and intelligent \ncollaborators in the work of creating and of ruling the world. We cannot refuse \nto take part in it without refusing God himself. That is inscribed in our human \nbirth and in the condition of communion (or koinonia)\, which is the condition \nof our existence\, human as well as Christian. \nHowever\, not everyone is called to collaborate in the same way. There are \nkings and there are farmers; there are doctors and there are merchants. The \nimportant point is that each one\, wherever God has placed them\, should always \nwork for the good of all. Selfishness is not only the act of someone who may \nwithdraw to the desert out of laziness or cowardice. It is no less present in the \none who has chosen to live in the world\, but who uses the world for their own \nexclusive gain. Every vocation is a service\, both in the church and in the world. \nEach of us is at the service of each other.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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