Are you searching to live your life to the full?
Are you searching for a way that corresponds to a deep calling within you?
What is really important for you as you seek to be a disciple of Jesus?
Does this way of Bethlehem and Nazareth of the vocation of the Little sisters of Jesus speak to your heart?
Discernment Criteria for a Vocation to the Little Sisters of
Jesus
- To have a longing to live among people who are materially
poor or marginalized, in order to find Jesus among his favourite
friends.
- To have a deep belief that the world is one family and each
person equally loved by God - that we are all brothers and sisters in
our search for true freedom.
- To have made a clear choice to seek to live for God alone
so that your whole life is rooted in contemplative prayer. Then only
can your love of others be the overflowing of your relationship of love
with God,
- To take the Gospel as road map and Book of Life. To have
one desire: to think, speak and act in and through Jesus. To accept the
call to cry the Gospel with your life.
- To be convinced of the relevance of an apostolate following
Jesus of Nazareth immersed in ordinary everyday life: (work,
neighbourhood, housing, relationships) centred on friendship, loving in
a gratuitous way all those who cross your path.
- To have a deep desire to unite your life to that of Jesus
in the Eucharist, to make the Mass the centre of your day and daily
adoration a way for you to unite your whole being with Jesus as bread
that is broken and shared.
- To clearly choose to live in a community of three
or four, rejoicing in the variety of gifts of each member, in close
contact with neighbours and friends.
- To be convinced that to follow Jesus in the way of the
Beatitudes, in poverty, chastity and obedience is for you a path
towards greater freedom in order to open your heart ever wider to the
love of God and your neighbour.
- To want to live as a counter sign to the consumer society
in order to witness to the joy of sharing and of solidarity.
- To have a faithful love and great loyalty towards the Church and to
live your call in communion with the gifts and charisms of others.
- To have a great thirst for the unity of all Christians
which starts at grass root level, to have a longing for peace and
reconciliation.
- To feel a special call to live with childlike trust and
abandonment into the hands of the Father.
- To live a healthy and balanced lifestyle in which you have met the
challenges of earning your living and of reaching out to others in
service and stable friendships.
- To be under 35 years of age or young enough in heart to
allow every aspect of your life be transformed by your call.
If you are filled with Joy by anything you read here and you want to know more, come and see.
Call The Little Sisters of Jesus
at: 01328820422 or 02077293605 or:
lsj.kathy@hotmail.com
