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POPE FRANCIS
- MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 2019 WOLD DAY OF VOCATIONS. From the Vatican, 31 January 2019 http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/vocations/upload/2019-vocations-english.pdf
“There can be no greater joy than to risk one’s life for the Lord!”
- MESSAGE FOR THE THIRTY-THIRD WORLD YOUTH DAY 2018 From the Vatican, 11 February 2018 http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/youth/documents/papa-francesco_20180211_messaggio-giovani_2018.pdf
“When God calls someone by name, he also reveals to the person his vocation, his plan of holiness and fulfilment, through which the person becomes a gift to others and is made unique.”
- MESSAGE FOR THE 2018 WORLD DAY OF VOCATIONS From the Vatican, 3 December 2017 http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/vocations/documents/papa-francesco_20171203_55-messaggio-giornata-mondiale-vocazioni.html
“In the … uniqueness of each and every vocation… there is a need to listen, discern and live…”
- LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS TO YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE PREPARATORY DOCUMENT OF THE 15th ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS From the Vatican, 13 January 2017 http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20170113_lettera-giovani-doc-sinodo.html
“I invite you to hear God's voice resounding in your heart through the breath of the Holy Spirit.”
- MESSAGE FOR THE 54th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS. From the Vatican, 27 November 2016 http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/vocations/documents/papa-francesco_20161127_54-messaggio-giornata-mondiale-vocazioni.html
Led by the Spirit for Mission: “Those who drawn by God’s voice and determined to follow Jesus soon discover within themselves an irrepressible desire to bring the Good News to their brothers and sisters …”
POPE BENEDICT XVI
- MESSAGE FOR THE 49th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS. 29 APRIL 2012. http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/messages/vocations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20111018_xlix-vocations.html
“Vocations, the Gift of the Love of God”
- MESSAGE FOR THE 45th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS. 13 APRIL 2008
“Vocations at the service of the Church on mission”
POPE SAINT JOHN PAUL II
- PASTORAL VISIT IN NEW ZEALAND: ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Auckland (New Zealand)Domain Park, 22 November 1986 http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1986/november/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19861122_giovani-auckland-nuova-zelanda.html
“Jesus looks with love on each of you.”
- ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND: Murrayfield (Great Britain), 31 May 1982 http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1982/may/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19820531_giovani-murrayfield.html
“[H]and the direction of your life over to Jesus and allow him to transform you…”
Dominican Spirituality Resources
- THE DOMINICAN SOUL by Fr. M. M. Philipon, OP https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/dominican-soul-11945 “A Dominican soul in its sublimest activity is a contemplative soul… and [it] is a soul of prayer and praise.”
- DOMINICAN SPIRITUALITY: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE by Fr. William Hinnebusch, OP https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzfW2h0Q1NP6c0hXVDNfZVVhSUU/view “The Dominican enters the Order of Friars Preachers to save his soul... Each branch of the Order leads its members to sanctity.”
- THE CONTEMPLATIVE DIMENSION OF DOMINICAN SPIRITUALITY By Father Jordan Aumann,O.P.https://docs.google.com/document/d/188uNMUzxLAEXqm5sHZRfbxXCvfL5cLY_DdZUqYa8myM/edit?hl=en_US “[C]ontemplation is a type of knowledge that begins and ends in love...”
Resources on Religious Life in General
- Apostolic Exhortation: VITA CONSECRATA of the Holy Father John Paul II http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_25031996_vita-consecrata.html
“The Consecrated Life, deeply rooted in the example and teaching of Christ the Lord, is a gift of God the Father to his Church through the Holy Spirit.”
