This week the Church places before us a single sustained meditation: on hearing. It begins on Sunday with the Parable of the Sower and ends on Saturday with Our Lady, the woman who heard the Word better than anyone and bore Him into the world. In between, Isaiah opens his ear morning by morning, Jesus asks whether we hide the lamp He has given us, Jeremiah suffers for the Word he carries, and on Wednesday the great Solemnity of the Annunciation pauses everything.
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"You did not choose me, but I chose you." — John 15:16. Every vocation begins not with a decision but with a call — and a call is never heard all at once. It is heard gradually, persistently, in the ordinary moments of prayer, service, and encounter.
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Lord Jesus, You have a plan for my life that is better than anything I could imagine for myself. Grant me the courage to ask: what do You want from me? And grant me the faith to follow the answer wherever it leads. Not my will, but Yours. Amen.
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