Prayer for Vocations - 1st May, 2011
This Sunday, 1st May, 2011, the Church celebrates the Beatification of Pope John Paul II. One of the greatest legacies he left the Church was a commitment to and deeper understanding of our relationship with the Jewish people (he would call the Jewish People 'our elder brothers and sisters').
'Our vocation gives us a particular responsibility to promote understanding and justice for the Jewish Community, and to keep alive in the Church the consciousness that, in some mysterious way, Christianity is linked to Judaism from its origin to its final destiny. In each province we will take the means to ensure that this priority becomes effective.' (from our Constitutions)
On this day, we ask Blessed John Paul to pray that young people will have the courage to respond generously to God's call to the Religious Life.
For information about Vocations with the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion,
contact Sr Carolyn Wicks : carolynwicks@tiscali.co.uk