Within the family, “a community of life and love,”27 young people can have a wonderful experience of this self-giving love. Indeed, families are not only the privileged place for human and Christian formation; they can also be “the primary and most excellent seed-bed of vocations to a life of consecration to the Kingdom of God”28 by helping their members to see, precisely within the family, the beauty and the importance of the priesthood and the consecrated life.
