Ever Onward with joy like Fr. Alberione

On this beautiful day , on which we celebrate with the entire Church and the Pauline Family, present in all the world, the Feast of Blessed James Alberione, we have concluded our Meeting and we leave, enriched from this experience.We share with you some of the convictions and priorities which have emerged for Vocation Animation and we are certain that these will help us realize, with the grace of God, on a gradual journey, the ‘turning point’ to which Sr. M. Antonieta Bruscato had invited us in her opening message: 1. To center our life and the ministry of Vocational Animations in the Person of Jesus Master, who reveals the love of the Father, is the model and foundation of all vocations. We assume His pedagogy in awakening the vocational process of the youth, following the golden rule: “Come and See.” 2. To always open our hearts and our communities to welcome with love the youth whom the Lord allows us to meet and to accompany them to the light of the Word of God. 3. To involve collaborators, Pauline Cooperators, the laity and our families, so that they will also collaborate in the vocational awakening in the hearts of the young people. 4. To organize and to program our Pastoral Vocation, avoiding improvisation; to work with youth movements, vocational groups in the parishes, dioceses, inter-congregations and Pauline Family in the Church.
By now we have ended our meeting and we thank each one of you for your prayers, participations, fraternal closeness and for demonstrated the affections expressed in different ways. We really felt accompanied by all of you. As we returned to our communities, the Galilee of our life, fill with faith and enthusiasm, where our Master and the youth await us. We are certain that “He who has begun this good work in us, will bring it to completion.” Through the intercessions of Fr. Alberione who accompanies and blesses us from heaven, we offer to God the conclusions and specially the priorities that we assume together, that we will be able to put them into practice.