” “The yearly meeting of the European Vocation Service (Evs), an organisation that groups the persons in charge of the national vocation centres of the 34 European Bishops Conferences, took place from June 29th to July 2nd in Louven (Belgium). “When the Christian communities become calling communities” was the subject of the meeting, which, reads the final release, "brought to light a wide variety of situations”. The exhortation to move on "from a poor idea of the calling, within which the priest is the only player”, to a "global profile where everyone is the player of their own callings and feel responsible for the happiness of others”, was sent by Amedeo Cencini, lecturer at the Università Pontificia Salesiana in Rome. The archbishop of Malines-Brussels, card. Godfried Danneels, proposed that "the current crisis of vocations should be lived as an ordeal similar to that of the people of God at the time of the exile of Babylon” so as to be able to "move on from confiding in ourselves to confiding in God”. According to card. Danneels, "hope must be kept alive by going back to the roots of the Gospel”. Four experiences were illustrated in Louven: one "house of youth" in Porto to promote vocational judgement; the preparatory year that in Austria brings together seminarians on their first year of studies; the "communion network" that has been woven in the Flanders by the Vocation Service, and finally the history of a family of the Walloon Brabant where a child’s call to priesthood blossomed unexpectedly.” “
