(January 23,2009) – After its Marian-flavored opening of the vocation month, the Commission on Vocation has lined up a series of activities which will keep its Vocation Team on its feet the whole month. Fr. Toter Resuello and his team, made up mostly of religious women and seminarians, will invade SM-Lipa on February 8, Sunday. They’ll set up their exhibits and Fr. Toter will preside over the Mass at the mall at 9:00 am.
Then on February 9 -11, the team will conduct a room-to-room campaign in the biggest school in the Archdiocese of Lipa, De La Salle Lipa. DLSL will be celebrating its 47th foundation during those days but the De La Salle Brothers, through Br. Richie Yap, FSC, DLSL Vocation Head, made this possible so that the students will be made aware of the life and mission of priests and the different religious in and outside the Archdiocese. Again, exhibits will be on display at the conspicuous parts of DE La Salle Lipa. Other schools have been scheduled but most of them have been visited by the vocation team during the current school year, 2008 -2009.
Robinson’s gets its turn to be witness the vocation tour on February 15, with Fr. Toter presiding over the mall’s regular Sunday Mass at 10:00 am.
The chance to campaign among young kids, ages 12 up, will be on February 21. The Altar Knights will have the much-awaited Sportsfest (Junior Division). The different parishes’ young altar servers will compete in such sports as basketball, chess, table tennis, and dama. The one-day sports festival usually brings in some vocations to the minor seminary. This also serves as an occasion for fellowship for young kids.
A kind of a final “Search-in” called Vocation Campfire will be held as a culminating activity from February 28 to March 1. Senior high school and college students who have previously attended search-ins conducted by the Commission on Vocation in the different vicariates are expected to flock into the St. Francis de Sales Major Seminary in the afternoon of January 28. Redemptorist Fr. Oly and Sr. Angelin,OSB, have been invited to speak before these young people. Fr. Oly will share his vocation story while Sr. Angelin will talk on Vocations in the Bible. The participants would have group sharings later in the evening. On March 1, the St. Francis de Sales minor seminarians will showcase their thespian talents in their much-acclaimed stage presentation, SACERDOTAL, to be followed by the encounter with the priests, religious and seminarians.
To cap the day, the participants will have an hour-long experience of Taize prayer, during which the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be made available to those who would want. Archbishop Ramon Arguelles will then close the Vocation Month with the Eucharistic celebration at 5:00 pm.
