Excerpt: NYPriest.com lists a number of things parents can do to create an environment where children can hear God’s call. First and foremost, according to Fr. Sweeney, is virtues education—training in integrity, character, and a clear sense of identity. Second, families can pray together, and pray for vocations, giving God the opportunity “to trickle his grace into the children’s hearts.” And third, parents must protect their children from harmful influences by providing “that fortress for a youngster as he is growing up—as any gardener would protect a sapling.” Over time, parents can gently transfer more responsibility to a child, so that he or she can make a “free and generous response to a calling from God.”
In the “Ordination 2009” video, Archbishop Dolan describes the call to the priesthood as an “invitation from Jesus himself.” In honor of Vocations Awareness Week, choose one thing your family can do to support those who have accepted this summons. Send a card to your parish priest, make a holy hour, download a prayer for vocations, or simply discuss ways that each member of your family seeks God’s will.
Read this excellent article here: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/cw/post.php?id=456
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