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Freedom, therefore, is essential to vocation-a freedom which, when it gives a positive response, appears as a deep personal adherence, as a loving gift-or rather as a gift given back to the giver who is God who calls, an oblation: "The call"-Paul VI once said-"is as extensive as the response. There cannot be vocations unless they be free; that is, unless they be spontaneous offerings of oneself...

Nor should the prophetic significance of priestly poverty be forgotten, so urgently needed in affluent and consumeristic societies: "A truly poor priest is indeed a specific sign of separation from, disavowal of, and non-submission to the tyranny of a contemporary world which puts all its trust in money and in material security."

The lure of the so called "consumer society" is so strong among young people that they become totally dominated and imprisoned by an individualistic, materialistic and hedonistic interpretation of human existence.

So many good quotes, curse you, character limit!