Vocation as Leaving the pastThe story of the death and resurrection of Jesus is to let us know that God has buried the past and left it behind - it has no place in the future! At baptism, the image is also of new beginnings - Death and Resurrection - we are given new life through Christ in our baptism. We are a new CreationThe Gospel of John ends with the restoration of the disciples, (who had run away when Jesus was arrested, and Peter, who had denied Him three times), to their ministries. The past was not to hold them back, even though they couldn't erase it, or ignore it. Paul never forgot his past persecution of the Church, but it never stopped him preaching the Glory of Christ. So when we think of our vocation, we are not to let the past stop us. One particular way the past will try and hold us back, is in the voice that says:
Here is a prayer to help overcome such voices:
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