What does God’s voice sound like when He calls young people today?

There are as many answers to that question as there are people. He speaks through the dreams and aspirations that inspire us, the provocative questions that knock us out of our usual routines, and the gift of peace that makes us confident we’re on the right path.

In this video series, young people from Australia, France, Italy, South Africa, Spain, and the United States share how they discovered their vocation to Opus Dei. Every story is different, but they all have something in common: the certainty that God still calls us today, in the middle of ordinary life, with words we can always hear in the depths of our hearts.

Transcript

I had everything, but I didn't feel fulfilled. 

But I remember one evening, after a game I had refereed (I was also a soccer referee), I realized how many beautiful things I had, but my heart was still searching. I didn't feel fulfilled. 

I was lucky enough to participate in a university congress that took place in Rome during Holy Week, and I remember that Easter night, during the vigil with the Pope, during the consecration, I felt something very intense here, but I couldn't understand what it was. Maybe it was a little part of the answer I was looking for... Having everything, but not feeling fulfilled.

There were moments when this feeling faded and got weaker. But it was important, because as the years go by, you can’t let yourself be led by your emotions too much – although of course emotions matter too. 

It’s as if I saw the answer, the way to the happiness I was looking for, without leaving my daily life, within the things I was already doing. But they took on new colour, new meaning, there behind everything I did. This is really beautiful. 

It was a process. It wasn't a phone call or a message written in the sky, a huge fire inside… It was a process, over years, leading me to truly understand what this path was, this path of happiness, of fulfillment. I had a girlfriend, a beautiful girlfriend who helped me grow a lot in my teenage years. But I understood that my path and hers were not together, because my vocation was celibacy. 

My heart needed not to dedicate itself exclusively to a single person, but to the whole world. My vocation does not bring anything extraordinary to my life, but it makes me understand that the things I do daily, my work, my relationships with colleagues and friends, to do them well, in St. Josemaria’s words, means to “do what you ought and be fully present in what you do.” Embrace God’s dream for you. And don’t be afraid, be eager to seek it, because it is so worthwhile.