Vocational Pastoral: Its essence and its work

The Vocational Pastoral makes the community clearly aware of forming a

community of calls, so that everyone, bishops, presbyters, consecrated and lay people, take on
your responsibility in vocational promotion.

We share the being and doing of the Diocesan Commission for Vocational Pastoral, which more
that a task specific to this commission is a mission for all members of the
Church. The primary responsible for vocational promotion is the bishop and alongside him, everyone.
the priests, consecrated and laypeople. It is the bishop's task to promote a space in the diocese
for this mission, therefore assigning it to a team led by an advisor,
so that it works directly for the good of vocations.

The Vocational Pastoral (PV) is the church's action in favor of all vocations.
to the end that it may be built according to the fullness of Christ and in accordance with the variety of the
charisms that the Holy Spirit awakens in her. Accompanies each Christian fully
started so that you discover and live your specific vocation.

Immense mission

First of all, it must promote the vocation to the priestly life, to the Consecrated Life and to the
lay life, their services in the Christian community and in society, and their commitment to the
construction of the Kingdom in its temporal dimension, because these are urgent and primordial
for evangelization. (PNPV nn. 314-315).

To inspire, promote, accompany, and educate, this summarizes the mission of this beautiful
labor, which responds to the demand of the same people of God: "Each sector of the people of
God asks to be accompanied and formed, according to the peculiar vocation and ministry to
who has been called: the bishop, who is the principle of unity in the diocese, through the
triple ministry of teaching, sanctifying, and governing; the presbyters, cooperating with the
the bishop's ministry in caring for the people of God entrusted to them; the deacons
permanent in the life-giving service, humble and persevering as a valuable help for
bishops and priests; the consecrated men and women in the radical following of the Master;
the lay men and women who fulfill their evangelizing responsibility, collaborating in the
formation of Christian communities and in the building of the Kingdom of God in the world.
It is therefore necessary to train those who can accompany spiritually and pastorally
others (DA n. 282).

Therefore, it is not just another movement or parish group, but rather a

Diocesan Commission, for a specific pastoral that must be present in all action
pastoral of the Church (youth, family, educational, catechetical, liturgical, social, etc.)...
Vocational Pastoral, which is the responsibility of all the people of God, begins in the
family and continues in the Christian community; it should be directed to children, and especially to
young people, to help them discover the meaning of life and the project that God has
for each one, accompanying them in their process of discernment." (DA 314). It is necessary
intensify the various ways of praying for vocations to contribute to a greater
sensitivity to the call of the Lord. A community that prays and works for vocations,
has vocations.
 The PV makes the community clearly aware of forming a community of
calls, so that everyone: bishops, presbyters, consecrated and laity, take on their
responsibility in promoting and strengthening vocations.

An ardent lover par excellence

The vocational promoter is any Christian who, after having experienced in their own
the existence of God's free and merciful love, feels the need to bring others
this same full and unmatched experience. The promoter must be a witness person.
of God's love in his life; therefore, he must be a lover, someone who has
found everything in your Lord. We all experience God's love at some point.
of our life. Love arises from a close and deep relationship between lover and
Sir; the vocational promoter is the quintessential lover. Unlike romantic loves
humans, we are going to want everyone to know this love. This impulse is God's grace, it is
vocation, is sending. The love of God does not produce jealousy, it is not a love that wants
only for one, as happens with human loves; it is an expansive love
what drives one to love the other and to make the other love God as well. This impulse is the
vocation-mission of the vocational promoter.
The great challenge

The vocation and commitment to be today disciples and missionaries of Jesus Christ in America
Latin America and the Caribbean require a clear and decisive commitment to the training of members
from our communities. Christ gives us the method: 'Come and see' (Jn 1:39), 'I am the
Way, the Truth and the Life” (Jn 14, 6). With Him we can develop our potential.
that are in people and form missionary disciples. With persevering patience and
wisdom, Jesus invited everyone to follow him. Those who accepted to follow him, he introduced them
in the mystery of the Kingdom of God, and, after his death and resurrection, he sent them to
preach the Good News in the strength of His Spirit. The Lord was awakening the aspirations.
deepens of his disciples and attracted them to himself, filled with amazement. Following is the result of
a fascination that responds to the desire for human fulfillment, to the desire for a full life.
A disciple is someone passionate about Christ, whom they recognize as the Master who...
drives and accompanies.

IDENTITY

VOCATIONS Y
STAGES TRAINING INSTITUTIONS
MINISTRIES
 Specific vocations
Promotion and lay ministries,
with a spirituality Family, Parish, Catholic School, Pastoral
of communion and from Youth, Family Pastoral.
Vocational an ecclesial perspective.

Ministry ordered
(including Diaconate
Permanent), Life INITIAL TRAINING INSTITUTIONS
2) Training AND PERMANENT OF VOCATIONS AND
Male consecrated and
Initial MINISTRIES
feminine and Ministries
Laicales.

1. Seminars
Training Houses

Ministry ordered 3. UPM Residences

(including Diaconate) Pontifical Mexican College
3) Training Permanent, Life
Male consecrated and
permanent female and Ministries
Laicals.

In order to carry out this important pastoral work, dialogue and the
work in communion with the various organizations, formation houses, directives
national and provincial, as well as with initial training institutions,
permanent and social security that are part of our Episcopal Commission.
It is essential for achieving the general and specific objectives of
the entire commission, working taking into account the dialogue and the transversality
among the other episcopal commissions, the dimensions and other related bodies
to our committee.

2. OBJECTIVE
 Promote, form, and accompany the various Vocations and Ministries, through the
programs of the own Dimensions, to contribute to the construction of a
Closest and most merciful church and a reality that is more just and at peace.

3. CHALLENGES

Intra challenges:
The communion and ecclesial performance among all Dimensions
The cross-cutting nature between the commissions and dimensions
Our subsidiary support to the parishes and commissions related to our work
Ecclesial is evident in some dimensions but not yet in others.
Extra challenges:
Psychological fragility, low tolerance to frustration. What is perceived in the person.
that initiates a vocational process
The sense of life is easily lost, leading to existential crises and
vocational, manifested in everyday social life
There is a crisis in the family institution, which is no longer the sole container and
value trainer that affects vocations.
Young people show a distrustful attitude towards political institutions,
civilian and religious.
Only the present, subjectivity, feeling, and life are valued; one keeps walking.
in life with a marked absence of project and without solid convictions and
profound.
The lack of vocational testimony makes the option for life less appealing.
consecrated and priestly.
Address the need for basic training for trainers in Life
Consecrated.
Creatively seeking strategies for the training of trainers in institutes
sources of male consecrated life.

4. LINES OF ACTION
1. Find paths and strengthen what has already been achieved in transversalidad through the lines
of action of each Dimension.
2. Take on external challenges through the programs of each Dimension
3. Design a program in content, time, and form, supported by teachers.
trained and experienced in consecrated life.

EPISCOPAL DIMENSION FOR VOCATIONAL PASTORAL CARE.

OBJECTIVE: Continue promoting the quality leap in its agents, actions and
vocational structures, in order to create the vocational culture within the pastoral of
set and thus contribute to the construction of a more merciful and peaceful Mexico.
2. CHALLENGES
Internal challenges:
Review and evaluation of the National Plan so that we can provide
continuation of the promotion of vocational culture.
The constant changes of the diocesan coordinators and promoters
vocational calls of consecrated life both male and female.
Improve communication among all agents of vocational pastoral care and the
OMAPAV.
Little presence of the diocesan coordinators and absence of a coordinator
provincial ones that do not allow continuity in provincial work.
The need for vocational pastoral care of processes and not events.
Lack of solid training for vocational pastoral agents, including to
Sometimes there is a lack of human, pastoral, and theological training.
Challenges outside:
Only the present is valued, the subjectivity, the feeling; one walks with a
marked absence of a project and without solid and deep convictions.
Desacralization of the family institution and its function as the primary educator.
of values.
Mistrust of young people towards all institutions.
One can perceive a fragility in the person who initiates a vocational process.
psychological, low tolerance for frustration and inability to make projects
long term.
The lack of generous and joyful giving has affected all states of life.
Only the present is valued, the subjectivity, the feeling; one walks with a
marked absence of project and without solid and deep convictions.

3. LINES OF ACTION
1. Promote a vocational pastoral fully integrated with the overall pastoral.
especially with related pastorals.
2. Strengthen the diocesan teams and centers of P.V. with criteria of ecclesiality and
testimony, with coordinators and promoters that meet the required profiles.
3. Revitalize the Vocational Pastoral teams and effectively implement the
guidelines and directives of the vocational plan.
4. Encourage the participation of the P.V. agents in the Courses, Assemblies and
Days that ensure a theological and pastoral human formation, in a way
gradual and integral.
5. Promote awareness of a renewed P.V., based on quality leaps
and that leads us to achieve vocational culture.
6. Raise awareness of the urgency to undertake processes that allow us to combat the
needs for immediacy or for events and occurrences.
7. Cultivate and support vocations with more pastoral and pedagogical processes.
that with immediate events.
I. Objectives of Vocational Pastoral

It is very urgent, especially today, that the conviction that everyone is disseminated and rooted.
the members of the Church, without excluding anyone, have the responsibility to care for the
"vocations" (PDV, 41). We work together lay people, consecrated individuals, and priests, all driven
by the Holy Spirit and each one manifesting their unrelinquishable wealth.

2. Make possible the topic of Vocations to the priesthood and special Consecration,
part of, expressly and clearly, the 'Contents' that are developed in the:
Ordinary preaching, catechesis for children and adults, training of catechists,
formation of Youth groups, formation of Confirmands and Altar servers, Pastoral
Familiar...

3. Remember that the Church has a mission to fulfill. The Church has the task of
Evangelization and our young people must see it clearly and participate in this mission.
We are called to be sent.

Vocational Cross

One of the tasks of Vocational Ministry is to promote prayer for vocations, and
For this reason, the devotion to the Vocational Cross has emerged for several years now, which
it is prevalent in the families and groups that make up the parish community. For each day
of the week, a prayer scheme for vocations is proposed, with readings for
meditate. Much fruit will be obtained if we arrange a suitable place and time for the
We also include the Vocational Rosary that can be prayed along with the
proposed prayer for the day, or at some other time. Taking into account, of course, that
the source and summit of our Christian life is in the Eucharist, so it is fitting that
Let's participate together as a family in the Mass, and offer it for vocations.