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Celebrating the Day of Consecrated Life
Friday, January 29, 2016
Thanks to the inspiration of St. John Paul II, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple has acquired a particular significance: it is the world day for Consecrated Life, to be celebrated on February 2. The first celebration of the Day for Consecrated Life took place on February 2, 1997 “to help the entire Church to esteem ever more greatly the witness of those persons who have chosen to follow Christ by means of the practice of the evangelical counsels and, at the same time, is intended to be a suitable occasion for consecrated persons to renew their commitment and rekindle the fervor which should inspire their offering of themselves to the Lord.” (JPII’s Message for the day for Consecrated Life). In the picture: Comboni Missionaries in Florence, Italy.
Bro. Jacek Pomykacz,
Polish Comboni Missionary,
in South Sudan.
The call from the Lord is always unique. It is sufficient to read the account of the call of the twelve apostles, who were so different one from the other, and see how the Lord found the right language and the right occasion to reveal himself to them and to tell personally to each one of them: “Come, follow me.”
Again, reading the lives of the saints, there are never two stories perfectly identical. Each vocation is discovered in a different way. There is no set moment, a formula or a procedure, or a particular age to understand the call. The maturity needed to make choices has nothing to do with chronology… or with planning.
Celebrating the Eucharist: Fr. Olivier Bachulu, Congolese Comboni Missionary in Chad.