Pope’s message for Vocations Day

(April 28.2012) God “chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy and irreproachable before Him in love,” writes Pope Benedict, quoting St Paul, in his message for Vocations’ Day.. This Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church celebrates the 49th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, with the theme “Vocations: The Gift of the Love of God.” Further in his message, the Pope affirms, that "The source of every perfect gift is God who is Love," an original bond between God and humanity, which precedes creation itself. The Holy Father recalls that God was moved solely by his unconditional love to create us out of nothing, to lead us to full communion with Him.The Pontiff adds that "every creature, and in particular every human person, is the fruit of God’s thought and an act of his love, a love that is boundless, faithful and everlasting, for offering and openness to the God, is the fruit of that love, by which all vocations are born and grow."