¿Qué Haría Jesús? - RETIRO DE MES - Enero 2025 - "La vida como vocación"

Episode Date: January 4, 2025

Predicador: P. César Pérez, LC. El retiro del mes de enero se hablará sobre la vocación que cada uno de nosotros tenemos en nuestras vidas, y como descubrirlo de la mano de Cristo. sobre la vida como vocación. Recuerda compartirlo a quien creas que le pueda ser de ayuda. ¡Dios te bendiga!

It's a practice very lovable in the church that every person can dedicate a time of quality to a month to reflectionate, be in a reality of faith, or even in our own story, to the light of God. It's for that in what area Jesus we've wanted to offer them a retire

mensual, for that each one, from where not is going to be listening,

could apply to this practice that is proper of all the

santo. The theme of the return of this month is the

vocation that is to understand our life as a invitation of

God to love. That that our life is

a casuality or that, or that, maybe every human not

all of not a call special. The dignity of

every and that the woman radica in that

has been called unica and personally for God

to to do in the history and the and

the dignity of one is also in the

measure of the dignity of that he knows that is God. Entendal the life as a vocation is in a certain way, the response natural to

comprehend the life as surgid of the heart of Christ if all what we're created by God,

for that, all what we is an invitation to go to God. all our history, the events in our

life, the talents that we have, the desires in our heart, no is more than a

way that we have been created for God and we have been created for him.

Well, if this to understand the life as a vocation does sense

and do a plenitude to what we can serve very

to in a retiro about this theme, to discover first, what will be my

vocation? What will be that that that's specific of God for me?

Second, if I know and I know a clarity, how I can

respond better? The acts of my life are accordes

to that I have received? And third, how

I can also, I response, Illumina the life of other people

for that they're question, the end of his acts, the

sense that give to their life, the potency

that is in the life of every the one

the vocation and first of all human is

the that so we know the vocation universal to

every person discover in his a heart a dossier of desires that they invite to go more than the mediocrity,

more than the banality, and see that has been created just in this moment. All the moments of the history are moments possible of sanctity. In the last canonizations that we've seen,

we've seen people that have responded with their life of a mode that have illuminated the way of others. For example, in the that's that's been to be to be able to

to carlo acutis, we've seen as a time, a time of development informatic, he used this medium to transmit to God,

he used all his youths, his spontaneity to talk to him. Each one of us

is called to be that saint that that desire to find today in the turn to the corner of the corner. If that's our vocation

universal, also the church has that exist vocations specific, is a way, forms of

that each one can be to be in the church as a invitation of God.

It's the vocation laical sanctifying the things ordinary by

medium of my work, of my work, of my entire, of the of my the

It's a vocation also to the sacerdocio, which is a configuration with Christ, pastor, and sacerdote for the benefit of his brothers and the serving by the middle of the sacraments. Well, we understand then

that exists this vocation universal to the sanctity and then vocations specific and forms of love. Well, the question is spontaneous that surge of the

heart in this moment, is saying, very well, but how I know what is my vocation? How do I do?

The church also us can't that exist traditionally three paths concrete, in

those which we can't reflection to try to to be in the

oration what can be what God may be being that you

that the first of those three passes, is it known as signos vocationales. It's saying, recognize certain characteristics

propious of my story that can be, for so saying, call me something more.

The signos are the different in two types, signos internal, to be desires of

my heart, of a sensibility spiritual to certain things, that's expressed that is the

little, signos internal is also a certain insatisfaction for something that maybe

not what me it's a sign external, that is an an

thing that is an whole my story in an instant. So, the first

question to discover my vocation is What signos Internos Discovering

in me that can be able to something For example it's very proper of the

sacerdocio that desire to to give of the sacraments It's

very also the marriage to find to find to the person

to that I can I'm to the I feel

that God I'm I'm God I'm the second is, what are those signals

external? Discover, in the happenings of my story, a hilo-conductor? If could could be able to write my story, what are those

events that not could be to find out? To discover these signals, obviously, there are some obstacles

that we need to the obstacle of the superficiality, that not does make to find

in the things that we've we've seen, vivable, and we've experimented. The obstacle

of the fear of not care to find of the fear of the obstacle also the

community of the life in a rhythm in a rhythm inart. These obstacles

we have to super those in the front, we have this desire

of more and live simply simply silenciating that desire,

not a life a real. In a certain way, what we have to have to have been to have never to die or that God can't ask you a little. What we have to have

been to have never never been in having, for an instant, really, decided to respond to the Lord with my heart, with all my my soul, with all my forces. The second path to discover

what is that vocation is indigar in the qualities that God me has done, or I've said also in the talents,

talents human, intellectual, spiritual, relationales. All those have been doted

for God of certain talents, some that we are, and another,

that we can't we can we can we can to help us. So,

then here the question would what is what you really more

you do And that, that's more of that category of things that you that can serve to the other, that can't

be the service of others. Those are the qualities. Jesus utilizes in the evangelio in various occasions

a parable to be a don't so great that are our talents and how we're called to

call to them to give us. The third part would, so, the

response. the response to these Signs, to these qualities that in the is a response that has been generous and

in relation to the response, the church us also that we'll we'll find that we're what God

me is what God is what God is but also sufficient obscurity for that the response

is so it is common that one always it's always with a certain

uncertainty. If is this, what God is the is the need to do you

to go to long as three days, for example, that exist as a commivency vocational

in the seminary, or also retiros to know more the grandness of the

matrimonio. But always there will be this space of the freedom

that a certainty, that never will be a 100, sufficient for that

it's enough to really and so resumying in this first

part we're that there are that the first identify the signos the second

identify the qualities and the third fomentar a response generous

and fiel to God our to this in in a passage evangelical and to

make a contemplation you invite to to open his sacred scriptures and make a lecture of the Evangelio according San Lucas Capitolo 5

Versiculus 1 to 11 that we narrs the vocation of the four first first disciples. We're to

sectionar this evangelio in four parts to to further more of what we've seen until now

in what we the Evangelio. The first part, we'll see how they're in our life the invitations of God. And he says

the evangelio. Stando Jesus at the oria of the lake of Genesaret, the people were to hear the

word of God. And in this, he he saw two barcas that were at the river of the lake.

The pescadores had been backed of them and they were lavando the reds.

Subio then to one of the barcas, that was of Simon, and he rogues that he alehered a little of the land.

He sento and he started to to the barca to the muchedum. In this first moment, in this

called initial, we've been the characteristic of that is Jesus the

initiative. The our Acconcessions in our life, there are some

speciales that are not that are not that we have been not

have been perceived with a strategy perfect that would

get to this is Jesus the who us

he he he he who he he he

he in this case we also we also there's

Decide Submire In one of One of them in one of Peter Not

all the vocations are equal. And each one can perceive

his vocation as a election privileged to each every

God God of God. Some little acts in this

case what he he Pid to Peter he

says me do do your barca he he

He's in his view ordinary. His barca could be here symbol of his work, of what he likes to do. But the difference is that Jesus now he pite use that for a purpose more. He's sienta in his barca and from there he begins to

teach a mucheduct. We can apply this to our life of two ways. The first, to be more atentous to the little invitations of God. And this means, you'll continue listening the podcast

every day that would do you do the oration of the morning, say also to be more

moments of silence at final of day to reflection in an exam of a conscience

is that God has been invited something that could be

that the second application that we can do is

to try to be other part in where In other places, Jesus,

from the barca of my life, has been doing a predication to the other. The people that are

that are that they have more our confidence and our care. Are very good to

say, I think God you are saying, you are very good in this.

I'm I'm in a hour, those people who me have said,

no, have thought or another once that maybe if you

are doing this this is an application of this first moment. But here

we see how it the call a sometimes imprevista

of predilection one of the two barcas a invitation

a little and then that from that that

that that is a second moment of this evangelio.

When he was he said a simon remamar into and etcha your

vets to pesk simon he responded maestro we've been been having been

all the night and we have never but now that you do you

do you let's I'm the redes and so they they're

so they're so much they paces that the reds amazable with romperse. Then

they were for seignas to the other barca for the other barca, and they were and

they're all both barcas that it was a day. This second moment of

the peska milagroza us about a Jesus that he invites

to Peter to go more there. Inclus those experiences possibly

negative of their history, with a great difference that this

is God the he's he's he and he and he he

he he said. All vocation implicate a great act

of a great that's that the vocation and

it's made from the order because it's an

act of a Lord. Even his experience human

he says that no has no it's not

natural and obedience and the result and the

time. If this return, in this moment we could we can we can't

a bell and to give to the light that's the

light of the faith illuminate that that we we

let's to let's to be to the light of that little that's the faith

to learn to our logic our expectations because the pletit of the

vocation is the result of our results of the power of God

actuando in our life and we do to do

things we we we're we we're we we're

we we're we ordinary, very great with our life. In this passage we've

a characteristic very beautiful that is from that experience of God, of Plenitude that does

Pedro, that is materialize here with a barca with a other barca, the other barca,

the that's to get on the door to and get to the other barca. Much of times in

our life we've we've been persons closer that not had

been really a really a relation with God and

we're so because living our vocation God God

can use our our car to make that

that is very proper of a vocation in

the church that your life you will do

a instrument of God to another and And in this moment,

we can do we can't do two questions to make sure or to apply these exercises in our life. The first is, there's a place to God may say these same words,

rema, mara-dentro. There's an invitation of God that can be a absurd or unnecessary. And the second is, there are people

that are Yenando of the experience that I'm doing of God? What is, if not, that other barca that could be from the response that I give to the Lord? Passes now at the third moment, that is Pedro, reconnociedness indigno of this callada. At all this, Simon Pedro,

called to the rodillas of Jesus, saying, "'Alead of me, sir. "'So I'm a man "'pecator.' "'The asombrose had "'apodered of him "'and of what's with him

"'are of the pieces "'that had captured. "'And this is what "'and occurred to "'Santiago and a Juan, "'Ihus of Cedé, "'that were "'companeros,

"'de Simon.' "'In this third moment "'webemus a "'Peader to "'he can't of the roadillas, that is a rinded before of God.

It's a moment of profound humilded, of the smallness, of dignity, and the grande of

Jesus. Discovering our vocation we need to a encounter that God that revela our debility

because all vocation in a certain manner not supera, because the vocation

is made to the measure of God, and that measure of the man in the which

always we've has to expand to a matter a matter much

more great. That recognition of our fragility also is fundamental

to respond with humilded and it is a guarantee also

that also who is who is a very sure ordinarily

not not put the means the people who

is who forces, is a person that should recurring to the via adoration, to the direction spiritual frequent, to the lecture spiritual, to all the media that God

is going to look into the life to respond with greater generosity. It's a beautiful that this condition of vulnerability of Peter, is

the place where God more can transform it from his and this humiliation. And this humility of Peter of this

is something that is something is something that will be a lot of the life of Peter that not

never will respond to the altitude to the time but always from the humiliation

will be to come to enter in this tone major that is the

call Christ let us let's here if this vocation

that God does it's in of sentin us that our life is a small but can be great in his hands. If it's a sit in us, this necessity of us to be more close to God, to form more in the faith, to grow really in the things of the video interior.

Jesus, it's here, calling to this fecundity, not it's not the time to the and the is a lot of something very great. Well, that those attitudes propius of

Peter, of humility, also in our question. And that also also also

also is a true of the vocation, the other thing the vocation that I'm

so I'm casted, then I'm to thank the presence of my

spouse, if I do you say, I'm this miracle of that God has been called

to the sacerdocio. If I offer a service in the church, to thank this opportunity.

Only the humilde is capable of to appreciate. And so we get

to the fourth and last moment of our evangelio that is the

call definitive that he does Jesus to Peter. Jesus

said to Simon no you don't you you

now you're a Hes. Levered to the barcas and they're

they're Jesus has been this moment to make your invitation called to Simon

Pedro in his moment with a barca full of peces and he

introduces this invitation saying no thames you know

this imperative of not temas is the most repeated at the

sacred scripture. Delante of God, the man experimented many times a certain fear. But the

plenitude of vocation is in saying, and then behind the securities humanas.

I mean really to contemplate this evangel and think, well, and the

barca of the people, who's they were with them? Because

they've a year to all, and they they're all. all that God had

had been in this moment and not was what they they were to Jesus Jesus is really the

veraddera pesca milagrosa Jesus is the veradper pescator that has pescated the heart

of Peter and is that experience with that Peter is that that The name of God,

that in this moment, transforma totally the life of Pedro, transform his identity,

changing the name, and it he lever, not to fish, but almas. A context

that can help to understand this power of Jesus, Pescador of

Hormres, can be the in the people of Israel, the pesators

not were great experts navigators in the sense of that not they're experts

natando. The actually the experience of the barca is an experience

a pretty atrevied because they were not good not

notators and then the water in the sacred scripture many

many sometimes can symbol symbolize the murder or

the second the In the way how the water dulce us does the and symbolizes

many times the grass, and the water salada has been appearances of the it may be

it's not you can't see, but if you take more set. So this ambiguity

of the water has a characteristic very of what is the the

thing that apparently you're to be that certainly you're more sedient.

And for that Jesus came over the waters on the orias of the lake and is there

always that contest of the peccado but that no it took. Sacar the ombers as a fisherman of the waters is to get to the lives of the peccas, to the life with

God. For that's saying, now you're a peskador of the ombers, is to learn all his life, all what he had lived up to now, his officio of

the pescador, what he has led to that, all that I don't even a small more grand. A me has

succeeded many times accompanying a young people that have the inquietto to the sacerdocco

that they are the father, I think I don't be a sacerdote because I

want to have a new good, I want a good husband, and have a family

numerous. And if we don't forget that the heart that the heart

has been to need to a necessity human to have a

vowso-a-hormoso, to hear of a good husband, to get to a good family, because the sacerdote elevates over-naturally those desires to a amplitude major. So, that that's the good-noge,

also is to be a sacredote and be fervoroso with the church. That's that not a good father not serve to be called fathers for all the

people. that's that that's that's that's to care a family, the people of

the people of God as a priest. So Jesus took these these these and he's

and he's making the pescador of the hos peter his vicario in the

earth. To that we can we can ask in this moment if there

there and the desires in our heart that can try to talk to talk of something

more. If there are some situations in our life, that can be a

time of God to put me to get to do to

make so. I think we'd hear that that phrase

not you know because from now and each

one from your to try to complete that that would Jesus in that moment. It would be very beautiful that each one could enter in a scene

in this evangelion. Colocars in the place in the place of Peter. Identificing what is my barca to that Jesus is sube.

Reflectionarce if there is a experience semehant of the fecundity of God like this

peska milagrosas. There where is, to be to be rodillas, delante

of a crucifio, to know his littleness of being a man a man

a man and to hear from the crucifio that he says, no

you're not you know you're now you and discover

there then then what is our vocation we we're

we we this retiro with a simple or

that we do our God our Lord pying this grace. Pied us first to the Spirit Santo,

that is the artifice of all the sanctity in the church. Spirit

Santo enter in our history to you that you

that we have received for this baptism expand your presence

in our and your and with your sopl

disper all superficiality, dispersa with your sopl, all fear, all commodity

inert, and you have that will be resurging those exurges to create

to do the God over all the things. No permit

that our failures not can be that fire that

the fire in us Spirit Santo. the Fuego of the

Santity that has abivated in many in the church that we're we're

on the altars. Darns the grace to think that we can't

be a santa that our life has a sense that our

suffer that are redimied that our talents can

be put are put that our inquietudes can be responded from us ourselves and we're used

illuminated and empushed for you and Spirit-Santo you that's new as all the things permit us actualize this

evangelist with our own life to give a Christ to be to our barca that

can take possession of all what we are of our memory of our intelligence, of our

Voluntat, of our liberty. That in this oration, standing in a moment of silence, we can't

go to God, we're in profound in our history, in all what we're living

in this moment, mar to be really with you. And there we can't

let a Jesus to show us in an instant that's that's

that's that's you're you're in you're you're because we're

we're we're we're not in we're we're we're we're

we're let's let's let's the matrimonial that that life that

family number confiated of your providence if is the

sacerdosio must us the almas that talk you by

the our entire Entrega, the almas that we can't we're going to the confession,

in the sacraments, the apostolates that we could we're to make with you. If it's

a compromise major in the church, then that time, that's that's

because all what to do your hands is our life

can our life, we our talents are in your

and the Spirit Santo to to live with with that humilded

this vocation that you're that we're in these things, that we're

that we can't give a response confiated in you and for that

a response that can be a final. Let's let us final

some questions of reflection that that we've made

that we can help also to to be to further more in the life

as a vocation. The first is if I use the medium that God put to

my disposition to discover my call. I've assisted to a

retiro spiritual about the sacerdocio on the matrimonio about the

compromise of the proper life laical. I've I'm direction

spiritual frequent I assist with frequency to the sacraments. I have a a video of oration

that really illuminate my story. Or, for the contrary, me I do you

get to the superficiality. I'm still the time thinking in the problematical materiales

that I have to resolve. But I know I know a sense to

all what I'm doing those medium. For example, if

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doing that certain things me oprimed or I'm discovering in those things,

a call of a mass. The history I'm processing from

the or I'm I'm being I'm in the story.

I'm I'm I'm I'm in my story, even in the moments

more difficult, or simply me I'm looking in the

malo. What are those ways of God in my life? Our

history is santa. I see my story like a

story like a story not I'm that I am that

I'm that we don't think we can conclude

is how we we are really in the essential

in our life and not dispersed if I

have discovered my vocation, be the matrimonio or a sastardosio, a one

life laical compromutied or a service specific in the church, I'm living according to

what I have committed, or I'm looking the in an aspect

that's that's very my vocation. I'm abivando my

identity what is the property in the case of the sacerdocio,

the service to the service to the almas, the cresiment in the life interior, in

the intimacy in the really live from the sacraments. In case of the life

matrimonial acuiting a retiro of renovation of promises matrimonial and taking

time to be with my family and my children, I'm today in what is

essential in my life? And that we can very easily, with the time of the time of the time.

To what I'm dedicating more time in my life? I'm offering the sufferings that I can experimenter today in function of this vocation that I've received knowing also that the vocation

is the thoughtlec in the pain. What is the essential for me? Well, this retiro also us help to conclude, us help to see to Christ in the

Evangelio always conscious of his vocation saying for this I've notated

aparting to even even to his friends more so they are ashtack

as say alhate of me Satanas that you not think you

not as as the evangelio of Lucas always in the decision

to to get to Jerusalem, to get in Jerusalem to give

their life for us and give her in a word of the cross

in a love without a mindy so let us for

more more more content about this and much other things

and that this retiro this I put to

help in the own your own their own living coherently in it and living it,

and inspiring to others to to create to find her. We'll see. Pront. I'm the Father Cesar P. Lusard, Legionaro of Christ, promoter vocational in Colombia. And as I said

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