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Young people participate in vocation meeting in Leer (South Sudan)
Rome, Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Saint Joseph the Worker parish in Leer has promoted a vocation meeting in which 131 people have actively participated. The event was inserted into the Solemnity of Christ the King and in communion with Philip Andruga and Mude Pascal Emmanuel, who were ordained a Comboni priest and a deacon of the Diocese of Yey, respectively. The main aim of this meeting was to offer young people an opportunity to better know the different vocations and ministries in the Church and to help them to think about and discover their own vocation.
The youth came from the four pastoral centres of Leer County (Adok, Beer, Leer and Thonyor). They were presented the general Christian vocation (God’s call to life and to the Christian family through baptism – common vocation). After that, they were presented the specifics vocations (religious, missionary, priestly, matrimony, laity...). In the evening they watched a movie about the Sisters of Charity (Sisters of Mother Teresa).
On Sunday they took part in the Eucharist celebration and, after Mass, they carried on the meeting by hearing some vocational testimonies from a ‘vocation panel’ made up of a catechist, a priest, a religious brother and a religious sister, a ‘man Luka’ (women of Luke, a group of ladies of the parish), a married couple and a seminarian. They were given the opportunity to ask questions and have their doubts clarified.
An overall evaluation was made and the youth were quite content with the meeting. The expectation now is that they may deepen the topic in other occasions and may be assisted with vocational discernment and guidance. The parish vocation team intends to promote the same meeting in other counties of the parish over the coming years as an effort to promote the different vocations and ministries in the Church.
You find in attachment the contents given to the Youth, plus some pictures of the event.
Fr. Raimundo Rocha, MCCJ - Leer