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The shape of every vocation, brothers and sisters: is not first a demand, but a door. Baptism opened that door in us. We did not invent this newness. We received it. Jesus tells His apostles that whoever does not take up the cross is not worthy of Him, that whoever loses life for His sake will find it. We find life by losing the smaller life we were guarding. Pope Leo XIV has said: “It is in giving of ourselves that we truly live. Otherwise, we spin in a void.” Every Christian vocation – marriage, priesthood, apostolic celibacy, the ordinary work of our hands – only makes sense pointed toward that same surrender. Even the smallest gesture counts. Nothing offered in love is ever wasted – not the bed, not the lamp, not the water. Choose one person who needs your welcome – a phone call, a seat at your table, a returned visit – and give it before the week ends. Let your hospitality be your cross, and your cross be your life.
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