THE WORD

2 Tm 4,9-17 / Lk 10,1-9

The Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’ If a peaceful person lives there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you. Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you, for the laborer deserves his payment. Do not move about from one house to another. Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘the kingdom of God is at hand for you.’”

IN OTHER WORDS

For so long, the word vocation was identified with the men and women who consecrated themselves to God in the priestly or religious life. Lately, its meaning has expanded to include a whole range of ways where lives can be totally given to God. Pope Francis said recently that “a religious vocation is a response to a call and a call to love.” This means that there are varieties of ways in which

Christian life expresses itself in different paths to relatedness with God touched by this sense of calling. In 1981, St. John Paul in an exhortation The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World wrote: “Love is the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.”

This view of vocation can encompass not only celibacy, consecration and marriage, but also many related vocations that pertain to the giving of self to the lived journey of Christian love.  Vocations then are modes of living that orient our lives toward God. They are varieties of different lives all lived on the same path to God.

• Fr. Magdaleno Fabiosa, SVD | USC, Cebu City

The Word in other words 2016

An annual project of Logos Publications, The WORD in Other Words Bible Diary contains daily scripture readings and reflections written by priest, brothers, and sisters of the three congregations founded by St. Arnold Janssen (the SVD, SSpS, and SSpSAP). It hopes to serve as a daily companion to readers who continually seek the correlation of the Word of God and human experience.

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