Almost all the religious congregations, also the Daughters of Christ the King, have an area of the Pastoral that they call thus, PJV, which literally means VOCATIONAL YOUTH MINISTRY. This is a common thing, then, tPastoral ode, and particularly the youth one, is originally vocational.
But that last letter, the V, you always have to explain it a little more. Some still associate it exclusively with the concern of those who feel called to be priests or religious, although, thanks to the growing vocational culture, this term is increasingly associated with a wide range of options, including, among them, lay vocations.
We think it is important to note that, in many activities and proposals of our PJV, the vocational extends a little beyond the lifestyle decision what to expect. If it were limited to it, everything would be reduced to clarify in a specific circumstance, and our PJV wants to be an area that can accompany young people, not only in those moments, but in so many others that arise (in that age range included between 16 - 29 years, according to the Synod), full of crossroads, clarifying questions, making small or big decisions, the need to return to God or to strengthen the option of building, together with Him, his Kingdom. We want, like Jesus "walk alongside each young man, welcoming their yearnings, even if they have been disappointed, and their hopes, even if they are inadequate ” (Final Doc. Synod on youth).
Definitely, the PJV is for all those young people who want to exercise in the habit of putting their lives under the gaze of Jesus, its work being to create an environment where the question is propitiated: Lord, what do you want from me? and in which the response to that word that resonates within us and in which we recognize the voice of Jesus, who insists us all, is favored: “Follow me”.
The HCR feel that we are continuing the Passion of our Founding Father, whose words, full of ardor and conviction, continue to shake us today: “…our voice has not ceased to call, while God keeps our breath, intelligences that confess it and hearts that adore it ” (José Gras. The good, 1870).
