“As a priest I am called to love so that others may see God\u2019s love in their lives, because ultimately our faith is about love.”<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\nAs priests, we go through the same journey as lay people. As a priest I bring the sacraments to others, but more importantly I share my life with them. As a priest I am called to love so that others may see God\u2019s love in their lives, because ultimately our faith is about love. Jesus came into the world and gave his life out of love for all humanity. We are called to follow that love and that example and to be true to who God is calling us to be.<\/p>\n
Our calling comes from God. It is not that God will touch us on the shoulder and say, \u201cThis is what I want you to do.\u201d But each life experience and every person we meet or hear about are opportunities to better understand our calling. We discover the best way to live our vocation of loving the other by exploring our experiences and deepening them through prayer, conversations, or simply by sitting with them and allowing them to speak to us. My discernment has come through my art (painting), spiritual direction, and prayer. Take time with these experiences and they will reveal the path to follow.<\/p>\n
If we approach our life experiences as doors and windows to new possibilities, then any experience can help us to see where and who God is calling us to be. Ultimately our vocation comes to us when we live our lives as people of love, as people who follow Jesus. Whether we are a priest or religious, single person, husband, wife, parent, or child, whatever our profession or occupation, our vocation is to love one another. Jesus did not come to build an institution but to show us how to love and care for one another no matter what we do, who we are, or where we are. That is our vocation. It is a call to all of us.\u221e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Called to love By Fr. Luis Lopez, S.F.M. January-February 2016 On July 11, 2015, I was ordained a priest with Scarboro Missions. It was the end of one part of my journey, a journey that took 11 years of faith and hope. Throughout that time I experienced many joys and challenges in my desire to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-magazine-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3213\/revisions\/3311"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}