At its most basic level, a vocation is a call to happiness, said Korean Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for Clergy.
“Vocation is essentially the call to be happy, to take charge of one’s life, to realise it fully and not waste it,” the cardinal told the Vatican newspaper in an interview published ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations on 21st April. God wants each person to be happy and to live life to its fullest, he told the newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
In Jesus, he said, God “wants to draw us into the embrace of his love; thus, thanks to baptism, we become an active part of this love story and, when we feel that we are loved and accompanied, then our existence becomes a path to happiness, to a life without end.”
The path to happiness, he said, “is then embodied and realised in a life choice, in a specific mission and in the many situations of every day.”
Picture: Pope Francis meets with South Korean Cardinal Lazarus You Heung-sik, prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)