The Missionaries of God’s Love are marking the year of Consecrated Life with an animated guide to discernment.
The guide’s creators created the resource targeting young people.
The four-part ‘Discernment for Dummies’ animated series, focuses on helping those seeking to know where to begin in the process of discerning their vocation.
The resource seeks to explain what discernment is not and then gives three most important steps to hear the call of God.
“Many young people experience great frustration because they have a strong desire to seek the will of God, but don’t know where to start,” says MLG priest, Fr David Callaghan.
“Often the greatest problem is that our agenda in discernment is very different to God’s agenda,” he says.
Fr Callaghan told CathNews that his main job is the novice director for the MLG’s and he spends a lot of time with novices trying to discern their vocation.
He said his motivation to create the resource came about after seeing the frustration young people experience when they go through a bad discernment process.
“They have a very genuine desire to seek the will of God, but fail to realise that it is about so much more than just finding an answer to their question”, he said.
Feedback to the series is very positive, Fr Callaghan says, and he is looking to create some more topics in the series in 2015.
The Missionaries of God’s love priests and brothers were founded in 1986 in Canberra, Australia. They received official recognition as a religious institute from the Vatican in February 2014.
The MLG’s have 8 young men starting novitiate next year and ‘God-willing’, a further 10 in the following year.
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