Sunday is Vocations Sunday. More here.
It is good to report that we already have some takers for the Bishop's Certificate in Catechesis Course to be held in Shepshed starting in September. This is strongly recommended for all who prepare people for Holy Communion and Confirmation, and those involved in RCIA and Children's Liturgy of the Word. More details and application form here - please print, complete and return form to Fr Colin.
And finally two lovely quotes from St John Paul II. They seem to link some of the above themes.
Dear friends, the Church today looks to you with confidence and expects you to be the people of the Beatitudes. Blessed are you if, like Jesus, you are poor in spirit, good and merciful; if you really seek what it just and right; if you are pure of heart, peacemakers, lovers of the poor and their servants. Blessed are you! Only Jesus is the true Master, only Jesus speaks the unchanging message that responds to the deepest longings of the human heart, because he alone knows “what is in each person.” Today he calls you to be the salt and light of the world, to choose goodness, to live in justice, to become instruments of love and peace. His call has always demanded a choice between good and evil, between light and darkness, between life and death. He makes the same invitation today to you...
World Youth Day, Toronto 2002
I invite you all to pray for those young people who, throughout the world, hear the call of the Lord and for those who may be afraid to answer that call. May they find educators at hand to guide them! May they perceive the grandeur of their vocation: to love Christ above all else as a call to freedom and happiness! Pray so that the Church may help you in your search and in arriving at a correct discernment! Pray so that Christian communities may always know how to pass on the call of the Lord to the younger generations! With me, thank the Lord “for the gift of a vocation, for the grace of priesthood, for priestly vocations throughout the world.” Let us thank him for consecrated persons! Let us thank him for families, parishes and movements, the cradles of vocations!
World Youth Day, Paris 1997
