"Today’s men said the Pope feel a remarkable religious and spiritual call, but are ready to listen to and follow only those who witness their adhesion to Christ with coherence". According to Benedict XVI, it is not by chance that "exactly the Institutes which have preserved or have chosen an often austere lifestyle, however faithful to the Gospel, are full of vocations": among the mentioned examples, there are "lots of faithful communities", the "new experiences of Consecrated life", the "missionary work of lots of ecclesial groups or movements producing lots of priest and religious vocations", the girls and the boys "who abandon everything to join monasteries and cloisters". Therefore, according to the Pope, "the Lord is continuing to send workers to His vineyard today, too, enriching His people with lots of holy vocations": so, here is the hope for "the enthusiasm of initial choices", typical of the "moving conversions" of lots of young people choosing new types of consecrated lives, "to be followed by the commitment to perseverance in the real path to ascetic and spiritual perfection, pursuing real holiness" (to be continued).
