April 22, 2018 -  Good Shepherd Sunday

- World Day of Prayer for Vocations



   “So ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest” (Mt 9:38) “The joy of the Gospel, which makes us open to encountering God and our brothers and sisters, does not abide our slowness and our sloth.  It will not fill our hearts if we keep standing by the window with the excuse of waiting for the right time, without accepting this very day the risk of making a decision.  Vocation is today!  The Christian mission is now!… Today the Lord continues to call others to follow him.  We should not wait to be perfect in order to respond with our generous “yes”, nor be fearful of our limitations and sins, but instead open our hearts to the voice of the Lord.  To listen to that voice, to discern our personal mission in the Church and the world, and at last to live it in the today that God gives us.” (Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for the 2018 World Day of Vocations, December 3, 2017.)