The word "Vocation"
At the origins of every human life on earth is a desire for love and happiness from God the Father. He willed us and calls us to design our history with Him in a unique and unrepeatable way. The first step toward our vocation is to recognize ourselves as thought from eternity and to feel wanted and blessed. We were created with a space in our hearts that only the Father in Heaven can dwell in, and this is a gift to be welcomed and rediscovered: the gift of Baptism, the gift of being Children of God.
We all live and exist within the Father’s gaze of love. We all, in different measures, carry within us this longing for a greater Love.
Touching our longing for the infinite then there we touch the vocation that God has written within us and to which only with our freedom can we respond.
If we look at ourselves with the eyes of “beloved children” and if we look at others and the world with this tenderness then we realize that our life is neither useless nor lost, but is made to return and give the love received, it is made to serve.
Life is made to bear fruit in charity and this is about the call to holiness that the Lord makes to everyone, God’s dream is for our life to be fulfilled in Love.
thought from eternity
Heaven willing, may you recognize what is that word, that message of Jesus that God desires to tell the world with your life.
Let yourself be transformed, let yourself be renewed by the Spirit so that this may be possible, and thus your precious mission will not be lost.
Consecrated life
Consecrated life has no other task in the Church and in the world than to point to the beauty of Christ, to tread His steps and be His reflection in a poor, chaste and obedient life that is embraced for love of Him.
“Gospel”: this was the horizon of St. Francis’ journey, the goal toward which Barbara Micarelli sped, the fullness of life that every consecrated man and woman seeks and receives on the disciples’ path.
“Come and see”: with this invitation Jesus called closer to Himself the disciples, who were not content to know Him by remaining on the surface but wanted to enter into intimacy with Him, to discover the place of His “dwelling.” It is the Word of the Lord, His feelings, His gestures, that the consecrated man and woman contemplate as the authentic way of humanity and choose as the form of their existence and concreteness of their dream of loving and being loved.
Every Francescane Missionarie di Gesù Bambino welcomes the gift of consecrated life that urges one to no longer live for oneself but to become a gift for others, to be a sign of God’s tenderness that became flesh in the Infant of Bethlehem.
What distinguishes us
God, our Father, calls us in the Church to live according to the Gospel in the radical following of Christ, in the spirit of prayer and devotion, in a life of fraternity, apostolic giving and minority.