In our Catholic Church, we have ministers: Pope, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, lay missionaries. They are people who have been chosen and called to minister to others. When have they been chosen?
St Paul answers our question in Rm. 8, 28-30: “and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
So, each one of us has been in God’s plan for all eternity. We were assigned a mission before our birth. Do we fail to understand the meaning of the words we read in Sacred Scripture? “The word of the Lord came to me, saying: before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jer1,4-5)
This is about a prophet, a priest, and anyone who has a special mission among the faithful. But what about everyone else? Have we all been predestined, called since before our birth? Certainly. Do you remember Psalm 139? “You created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb… All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
We are called to exist and then we can fulfill our vocation, our mission wherever we may be called to live. But aren’t we forgetting a very important point? By interfering in the development of a human creature we are working against God’s plan. At the same time, we are maybe delaying God’s plan of salvation.
We have been created to cooperate with God and keep all things going the way He wants them to go. But if we are going against his will, against his plan, then we are doomed. Will we get humble enough to acknowledge our sinfulness and come to the conversion of heart that would put us back on track?
We need a lot of prayers to get to that point. We’re having a crusade of rosaries to try to appease God’s wrath. We need to join our Blessed Mother in interceding for all those who are blinded by the father of lies and prefer to go his ways instead of choosing the ways of our Lord. Let us keep on praying with confidence, with love for all God’s daughters and sons, created in his image and likeness, knowing that
anytime, some who were lost may come back and join forces with us to fight the greatest sin of our times, when those who are called to protect the innocent are giving up more and more. By the intercession of St. John the Baptist, the greatest of the Saints and of all the little angels around God’s throne, may we soon know deep change in our troubled world.