God is Calling

God Is Calling...

We are called. God calls each and every one of us personally, and uniquely. We are also called as a People, to be a People, to live as one People: the family of God. We are called.

The ways in which we receive God’s call are many and unfold over the course of our entire lives. St. Catherine of Siena once said, “All the way to Heaven is Heaven.” That’s the idea: holiness, sainthood, life with God is not something that is just realized all at once, it is lived out and acted upon throughout our lives.

Recognizing this mystery of God’s call - that the call comes to each of us at all times in many ways throughout our lives - we may begin to see the concrete circumstances of our lives in a new way; indeed, we may acquire a new vision.

Notre Dame Vision offers high school students opportunities to look at their lives in a new (or renewed) way: to see God’s Spirit present in both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives, to see the effects of the love of God in Jesus Christ making all things new. God calls to teenagers in their relationships, whether with family, friends, neighbors, or those who are at first strangers. God calls in invitations to service, creative expression, and community involvement. God calls in the midst of struggles and sorrow as much as God calls in times of joy and celebration. God calls in silence, music, prayer, reflection, dialogue, and the sharing between people.

During the course of the week at Notre Dame Vision, high school students are invited to see how God calls them as disciples, through conversion, into relationship, as community, through prayer and sacrament, and ultimately into a response of faith that utilizes their own gifts. We believe that God is calling; the question is, How Will You Answer?

To evangelize is first of all to bear witness, in a simple and direct way, to God revealed by Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit, to bear witness that in God’s Son God has loved the world - that in God’s Incarnate Word He has given being to all things and has called humans to eternal life. Perhaps this attestation of God will be for many people the unknown God whom they adore without giving a name, or whom they seek by a secret call of the heart when they experience the emptiness of all idols. But it is fully evangelizing in manifesting the fact that for humans the Creator is not an anonymous and remote power; He is the Father: “...that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” And thus we are one another’s brothers and sisters in God.

~ Evangelii Nuntiandi 26

Notre Dame Vision is an experience like no other. The counselors are inspiring, the small group s are memorable and the speakers are amazing. You must try it!

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...How Will You Answer?