“Creating a home”. On the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the sixty-first world day of prayer for vocationsthe prayer vigil promoted by the diocesan office of
vocational ministry in the church of S. Domenico. “In front of Jesus the Eucharist, the prayer of priests, religious and lay people of the Lamezia church because may the Lord continue to inspire vocations in the Churchso that you reawaken in the young people of our time the desire to follow Christ with a radical choice of life, responding to the call that challenges the heart of every woman and every man”.
“That calling in which the happiness of every person is. In the message for this day – highlighted don Angelo Cerra office manager
diocesan ministry of vocations – Pope Francis reminds us that only in responding to the call of the Lord, each of us finds the joy in our life. Vocation is an invitation to set out on a journey, to be pilgrims of hope so that we too can create a home, with God and with brothers. Let us listen to the call to find true joy.”
During the moment of prayer, the vocational testimonies of the seminarians Giuseppe Bernardini And Andrea Giovanni Cefalà. “Choose whether to live as servants, content with the pay, or as friends who live off that same love of which Jesus was the first witness”, was one of the passages of Bernardini’s testimony while Cefalà, recalling some decisive moments of his vocational journey, spoke of his vocation as “a call by name”, experimenting “a love that goes beyond what you are, a love that gives hope, because in Jesus Eucharist I feel like a beloved son.”
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