vocation, a respond to God, God's call, Single life, Marry life, religious life.

2. THE CALL
• Today, we will talk about a call.
• Each one of us has a call to be Christians.
1) But who is calling?
2) How can we hear the call?

3. JESUS:
“COME AND FOLLOW ME”
• Let’s see The Gospel of St. Matthew, to see what
Matthew has to say about the Call.
• “As Jesus was walking by the sea of Galilee,
• He saw 2 brothers, Simon and his brother Andrew.
• They were casting their nets into the sea. They were
fishermen
• Jesus said to them: “Come! Follow me!”
• They left their nets at once, and followed him. (Mt 4,
18-22)

4. “COME AND FOLLOW ME”
• Jesus, saw another pair of brothers: James
and John.
• They were in the boat with their father,
Zebedee, mending their nets.
• Jesus called them.
• At once, they left their boat, their father,
and followed him.

5. JESUS:
“COME AND FOLLOW ME”
• One more person was called.
• He was hated by many.
• Matthew 9:9
• As Jesus was walking, he saw a man named
Matthew, sitting at the tax collector’s house.
• He said to him, “Come! Follow me!”
• Matthew got up, and followed him.

6. JESUS IS CALLING
• Now we know who is calling: Jesus!
• We can see that Jesus is calling us.
• Now we have to see where he is going. That is the big
question!
• If you and I want to understand our Christian call, our
Christian vocation, we will have to follow Jesus.
• Let us see where he is going.
a) In Scripture, Jesus tells us that he would travel.
b) He would travel up to the hillside, and he would talk to
people.
c) Then, he would go down to the villages, and meet with
people there.

7. WHY DID JESUS TRAVEL?
• Sometimes, he would walk up to the crowed city.
• Why did Jesus travel?
• Because he had to meet the people!
• He wanted to reach out and meet all the people:
a) the lonely, the families, the children, the men and
women,
b) the rich , the poor, the window, the sick, the sinner,
c) those who were rejected, the foreigner.
• Jesus reached out to everyone!

8. JESUS WANTS US TO KNOW GOD
• Why would he do this? Why?
• Because Jesus wanted us to know GOD as a Father.
• Jesus knew something very important.
• No one , could be as poor as those who do not know that
they are loved by God!
• No one can be as lonely as those who don’t know that they
have a Father who loves them!
• No one,, can be in more need of healing than those who do
not know that we have a God who forgives!
• You can have as many friends as you want, but the
greatest Friend is God: The Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

9. JESUS ALSO TRAVELLED
TO CALL THEM
• Jesus travelled to meet the people, “to call them.”
• How about us?
• How do we live out our Christian call?
• Some of us live in farm lands,
• or may be in a town or in a suburban neighbor
hood
• or in a big city where the crowds are.
• Wherever you live, you live where the people are.
• You live where people need to be loved,
• to be cared for,
• to be noticed.

10. THERE ARE MANY IN NEED
• Think of your school, your neighborhood.
1. Is there someone in your home or in your school
who is sick?
2. How do we treat people who are sick?
3. Are we afraid to be around them?
4. Do we go and talk to them?
5. Is there someone lonely in your school?
6. Children who play with no one during recess?
7. Children who talk to no one during a school day?

11. HOW YOU TREAT
OTHERS
• What about those elder people, who are not our age?
• Do we let them lonely—or do go to them and become their
friends?
• Some people just go around their own kind,
a) With those who look like them do,
b) Have their same age,
c) have the same color,
d) speak the same language,
e) wear the same kind of clothes.
• I hope that you are not among them!
• Jesus was not!

12. JESUS MINGLED WITH ALL PEOPLE
• Jesus mingled,
• In fact, he mingled with all people:
• the poor, the lonely,
• the sick, or those with special needs.
• He love them so much, that he chose some, to be part of
his team.
• We are called to be Christians, to follow Jesus and to go
where he is going.
1. He is going to the Heart of his Father To the people of
his Father.
2. The world needs to know Jesus.
3. People need to know that there is someone who can love
them, care and show kindness.
• This is our Christian call!

14. MANY KINDS OF CALLING
• We can keep our hearts, open and listen to the call.
• We know that there are many kinds of calling.
• God calls each of us to something special.
• For example, he called your parents, too.
• God calls many people to the married life,
• Being married is a very precious call from our Lord because
they are called to love each other as husband and wife.
• They are called to raise a family.
• Marriage is Self-giving vocation. The person give
complete to others
• This is a Sacrament of Service.

15. SINGLE CALLING
• Single people are also called by God.
• You may know quiet a few single people in the parish.
• Some of them may be in a youth group,
• Some may be helping to teach religious education.
• Some may be good citizens, or role models inspiring
others with their lives
• Some may be professionals using their talents and God’s
gifts to serve other into our society or around the
World.
• Single Vocation helps us to express God’s love through
good deeds and actions

16. RELIGIOUS CALLING
• God may all someone to the priesthood, or religious life.
• Sisters who are members of religious communities take
wows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
• Sometimes, they may sound hard, but they are not hard
because they are loving.
• They know that loving and having a family and kids is good,
• But also they know that there is Someone more loving and
beautiful: He is God Himself.
• This Vocation is a Self-giving and Service Sacrament, they
give completely to God.

17. ALL BELONGS TO GOD
• CHASTITY means that religious Sisters or Brothers love
our Lord very much.
• They always try to find Jesus in their lives,
• and have him in their lives, more than anyone else.
• OBEDIENCE means that religious, let God plan their
future. And he does!
• He plans a wonderful future for them: to love him and live
with him forever.
• VOW OF POVERTY means the religious don’t want to have
a lot of things because things are only distracting them.
• Whatever is around them belongs to Jesus.

18. TO LOVE GOD & BE WITH GOD
• So there are many ways to be called:
• to be married,
• to be single
• or to be a priest or religious.
• We cannot say that any one call is “the best” because the all
have the same goal:
• to love God and to be with God
• and loving & heping others.
• The very best vocation is to be happy in your call.
• God would like each of you to open your heart to hear his
call.
• How can we discover his call?
1. Ask him, pray, always to do your best,
2. and discover the talents God gave you…