Pope Francis on Vocations

[Sponsa-Christi]

Some remarks from the first Sunday of Advent: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-vocations-are-born-within-the-church

[TheresaThoma]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

[nikita92]

I totally agree with Our beloved Pope Francis! I live in the state of Washington!

From the beginning, Washington is not known to have been a religious orientated state. Of all my years of having been bred, born and raised here in the Pacific Northwest, I have yet to see, a fully habited Nun/sister out in visable sight. And NO, I cant tell if a female with short hair in a skirt and wearing " Nun type/style of shoes" with a religious pendant around her neck of some sort...is in deed a religious! My city outside of Seattle, had 3 convents (in the 60's) attached to 2 Catholic schools! (of course) I barely remember seeing any Dominican (and that was the only kind we had) sisters walking around the core of our "town"! (back then) My older brother had attended the one Catholic school..and remembers the sisters. I was 3 years younger and did not end up following him..as our mother remarried and moved us to a different part of our core area. Thusly, I never was exposed to religious as he had been. My German immigrant mother was not spiritual nor a church going woman! My grandmother who adopted my father in 1931 from Seattle's children's Catholic orphanage, had been behind the sole driving force of my having been baptised and exposed To Catholicism at a very early age. But.She moved in the late 60's to another part of Washington State. and there went any opportunity To have really discovered religious or any Influences to Discern religious life! Not in even in the High School I went to. Not church youth groups nothing! Even when I attended church with my g-ma..do I ever recall seeing any sisters nor did the Priest touch on the religious life! Then...and even now really. It is mentioned during mass to pray for "vocations"; but my church is heavy on the male side of promoting vocations..never heard of "young women" being brought up!

Thus my whole point is...if the church isnt being verbal about Vocations to the religious life and one's childhood is t exposed to it either..and one's town/city doesnt have a visable sign of it...how are young people really going to know that a Vocation to the religious life might exsist in them??? 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2015 by nikita92
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