Pope Francis 2013-2025

Vocation Sunday 2025 |  Pilgrims of Hope: the Gift of Life

“A vocation is a precious gift that God sows in our heart, 
a call to leave ourselves behind and embark on a journey of love and service”.  Pope Francis, 2025

Read the full message of Pope Francis for Vocation Sunday 2025 here.

Vocation Sunday 2024 |  Called to sow seeds of hope and to build peace

“To young people, and especially those who feel distant or uncertain about the Church, I want to say this: Let Jesus draw you to himself; bring him your important questions by reading the Gospels; let him challenge you by his presence, which always provokes in us a healthy crisis. More than anyone else, Jesus respects our freedom. He does not impose, but proposes. Make room for him and you will find the way to happiness by following him. And, should he ask it of you, by giving yourself completely to him.”  Pope Francis, 2024
Read the full message of Pope Francis here.

Vocation Sunday 2023 |  Vocations: Grace and Mission

“Dear brothers and sisters, vocation is a gift and a task, a source of new life and true joy.”  Pope Francis, 2023.
Read the full message of Pope Francis for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2023 here.

Vocation Sunday 2022 | Called to build the Human Family

“… God addresses a particular call to each of us. He touches our lives by his love and directs them to our ultimate goal, to a fulfilment that transcends the very threshold of death. That is how God wanted to see our lives and how he sees them still.  
Michelangelo Buonarroti is said to have maintained that every block of stone contains a statue within it, and it is up to the sculptor to uncover it. If that is true of an artist, how much more is it true of God! In the young woman of Nazareth he saw the Mother of God. In Simon the fisherman he saw Peter, the rock on which he would build his Church. In the publican Levi he recognized the apostle and evangelist Matthew, and in Saul, a harsh persecutor of Christians, he saw Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles. God’s loving gaze always meets us, touches us, sets us free and transforms us, making us into new persons.  That is what happens in every vocation: we are met by the gaze of God, who calls us. 
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