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

If you think growing up in a Catholic family is an automatic gateway to knowing your vocation, then think again. God’s call is not a group calling. It is an individual call between God and myself. 

I grew up in Soweto, a township in South Africa. And with this I was able to attend Mass and be involved in parish life, in my home parish. Slowly but surely, I began to want to do something more for God, because being an altar server and being in the youth group was not enough for me. 

I think meeting Opus Dei was what I needed to put the world and God as one. It really helped me so my life is not in little fragments of, “I’m doing church” and, “I’m with my friends,” and that other life is is not part of this life, and I'm going to school and that life is not part of this life.... It has really brought everything that I do into one as a child of God. 

My vocation to Opus Dei is as an associate. I stay with my family and I'm also a teacher. Being a teacher and being a member of Opus Dei has really brought a lot of light to how I live my life. At the beginning of every day, I offer up my lessons for the day for the learners that I’ll be teaching, my colleagues that I work with. I work so well that I know that what I’m doing is giving glory and praise to God through the souls that I that I work with and through the the people that I teach.