In place of the usual Annual Vocations Camp and Rally organised by the Accra Archdiocesan Catholic Youth Council (AADCYC) for young people, the youth have been encouraged to embark on “The Service Challenge.”
Due to the directives by the President of Ghana to ban all social gatherings as a measure to prevent the spread of Coronavirus, this year’s Vocations Rally and Camp which usually attracts many youths in the Archdiocese, cannot be held.
In a message to the youth in preparation for the celebration of Vocations Sunday on May 3, 2020, the Archdiocesan Youth Council has encouraged the youth to identify various Christian heroes, living or dead; who have responded to God’s call after a personal experience with Jesus through others or through prayer.
The Message issued on April 23, 2020, signed by Anthony Ngissah Assuah, Chairman of Archdiocesan Youth Council and endorsed by Rev. Fr. Osmund Kudoloh, the Youth and Vocations Director, urged young people to carefully think of how they could learn from these people.
“Create a visual display, a poem, a prayer or a song on how you want to respond to Jesus through service, caption it “The Service Challenge” and share it on your various Youth WhatsApp platforms, Facebook or you can even have it published in your parish bulletin. Please commit to doing whatever you set for yourself as a way of responding to Jesus through service,” the Message said.
The AADCYC Message urged the youth to reconsider certain things they took for granted, including “being able to leave our homes to gather as young people for “Vocations Camp and Rally”, attend Mass, weddings or funerals or even do something as simple as giving someone a hug or handshake.”
The Message added: “every vocation is born of the gaze of love with which the Lord came to meet us, by our baptism each one of us became a child of God and was given a special and wonderful gift of faith and a ‘vocation’, a calling from God to follow Him in holiness in a unique way”.
The statement further implored the youth to discover the gifts and talents that God has given them and how they can use them to serve Christ and His Church
Vocations Camp and Rally is a forum by the Church to groom the youth who have spiritual gifts sent by God and received by men and women who answer the call to follow Jesus as Priests, Religious Brothers or Sisters, Married People, or Single People that are used to serve the Church.
Source: Newswatchgh.com// Kelvin Aboagye-Yeboah and Theophilus Kwabena Yeboah
