In asserting that all things were created through Christ and for him (cf. Col 1:16), Scripture directs us to read the mystery of vocation as a reality imbuing God’s creation itself. God created with his Word, which “calls” into being and into life, and then “establishes distinctions” within the chaos of the indistinct, imprinting on the cosmos the beauty of order and the harmony of diversity. If Saint Paul VI had already said that “every life is vocation” (cf. Populorum Progressio, 15), Benedict XVI added that the human being is created as a dialogical being: the creative Word “calls each one of us personally, revealing that life itself is a vocation from God” (cf. Verbum Domini, 77).
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