As they have done every year for the past five years, the Catholic Claretian Publications has organized an event in Rome to reflect on the theme of 'vocation'.
Juan Carlos Martos, a missionary with the Claretians' Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, introduced the book "Open your heart: vocational activity in difficult and turbulent times".
"With this book, as we would say, we want to offer a pedagogy of vocational accompaniment."
"I think the job is the following: How can we make it possible for the young people of our time, instead of asking 'What am I going to do with my life?', be able to bring that question to God: "Lord, what do You want me to do with my life."
God is calling, but are young people listening?
"I see several things. The central issue I find most disturbing is narcissism. That is, the person at the center of everything is me. This is neither good nor bad. The only thing is, it produces a phenomenon of deafness to other voices, some so close that they are knocking at the doors. But there is a great insensitivity to respond to another's call, other than to those that come from their own sensibility, their own desire, own intuitions, or their own tastes."
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