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 …