School Sisters Of Notre Dame
Next October, the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will meet to debate the theme of younger people and particularly the relationship between young folks, religion and vocation. There we will have an opportunity to contemplate more deeply how, on the centre of our life, is the call to joy that God addresses to us and the way this is God’s plan for men and women in every age” (SYNOD OF BISHOPS, XV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Young People, The Faith and Vocational Discernment, Introduction).
Thus we come to find that Christian vocation always has a prophetic dimension. The Scriptures inform us that the prophets had been sent to the people in situations of nice materials insecurity and of religious and moral disaster, to be able to tackle in God’s name a message of conversion, hope and consolation. Like a whirlwind, the prophet unsettles the false tranquility of …
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There’s a (maybe apocryphal) story of a thinker being requested at a celebration what exactly it was they did and responding – “you define a few concepts, you make a few distinctions; it’s a living.” People typically inform this story for example of how base, flippant, and ignoble the tradition of analytic philosophy has turn out to be; but I start with it for the exact reverse reason. I wish to acknowledge from the get go that, ultimately, one of the large attractions to being a thinker is that it’s an indoor job with no heavy lifting, and that’s alright. I’m not from the varsity of thought that thinks the issue with academics is that we fail to be sufficiently self-important, so I suppose it worth grounding all this vocation talk in the extra humble actuality straight away.
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