About 60 members of the Legion of Christ, including priests and those in formation, gathered in Teotepec (Saltillo, Coahuila) from December 26 to 30, to reflect and work on the theme of discernment, accompaniment, and promotion of the priestly vocation.
The members of the Legion from the Northern territories of Mexico and from Mexico and Central America, who carry out their apostolic work with young people, had the opportunity to participate in a vocational promotion workshop led by Fr. Hernán Jiménez, LC, Major Superior of the Legion.
The program was based on eight thematic modules, alternating joint sessions and team reflection spaces. All of this was complemented with moments of prayer and spaces for fellowship and rest.
In light of the changes happening at the international level, there is a push to renew and practice creativity to find new ways and methods to offer high-quality and attractive vocational promotion that shows the joy and fulfillment of answering God’s call to the priestly life within the Legion of Christ to serve the Church.
There is an urgent need to awaken a world that seems to have set aside God’s ways but shows signs of “thirst” for true spiritual life. In the midst of all this, the priest can sow, accompany, form, cast the nets, and see progress during the discernment journey.
How to achieve this? Through collaboration, with the awareness that everyone is part of vocational promotion, focusing on the person, without fear of presenting the vocation, with a positive and hopeful attitude, increasing dialogue with formators, seeking processes that, in due time, lead to strengthened maturity, living the mission that God has inspired in the Legion of Christ.
An important means of vocational promotion emerged from the proposal to work as a team to find the paths through which, through apostolic activity, the beauty of the priestly vocation could be shown.
During some sessions, they worked at the territorial level and by sections to establish strategies and define commitments; there was also time to express the needs that each section or apostolate has among themselves, in order to carry out better vocational work.
