Our Christian faith is configured by calling. It has offices, vocations that we see as more than a question of human necessity. We see them as divine elections, God taking an active role in the life of our community by calling some to unique offices, roles and tasks in the church. Not all of these are institutionally established. Many of our greatest saints never held an office or exercised a public ministry in the church.
As a member of the community that we call the church, each of us was given a role, a task, an identity that will only be fully disclosed when Christ is revealed as the omega point of history.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!
(Rom 11:33)
Remember that in our baptism, each of us has been chosen. So many others in this world have not. This cannot be because God loves us more than them, so we must constantly ask ourselves: “What will you have of me, my Lord? Why have you chosen me?”
--Fr. Terrance Klein
Image source: Baptism, OLMC, Sunday, October 22, 2023, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=733455188819898&set=pcb.733455842153166
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Beautiful.
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