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“

ET VOCAVIT

AD SE EOS…
”

UT ESSENT CUM ILLO

ET UT MITTERET

EOS PRAEDICARE

4) And to send them forth to preach (Evangelization and Human Promotion)
Fr. Michele Piscopo, OSJ

Reflection in preparation for the XVII General Chapter
I
n this sentence from the Gospel we can see four important elements:

1) He summoned those he wanted (Vocation, Call)
2) That they might be with him (Intimacy with Jesus)
3) That they might live together in communion in the Apostolic College
(Community Life)

We Oblates of St. Joseph must live all of this in our Josephite-Marellian Charism and Spirituality. As
children of Marello, we want to follow Jesus, living in continual intimacy with Him, in a fraternal life
in community, in order to go to the existential and geographical outskirts to live the Gospel and
witness to Him who has chosen us. We want to deepen and give new
life to our human, religious identity, to our identity as Oblates
of St. Joseph. This is a personal and communal "refounding"
of our existence, to relive a deep sense of belonging to
Him and to our Religious Family.

I propose to myself and to you some reflections.

1) Vocation, Choice, Call.
 I am “God's dream”: “let us make the man in
our own image and likeness” (Gen 1:26)
 Like Isaiah: chosen from his mother's
womb to be light to the nations (Is 49: 1-6)

 Like Jeremiah: chosen before my birth. (1:4-
11)
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