NAME: MUOGBO MICHAEL
COURSE: CONSECRATED LIFE IN THE
CHURCH
LECTURER: Rev. Fr. DANIEL ONYEAYANA
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TOPIC: THREE MORE CALLINGS THAT
UNDERLINE VOCATION AS A CALL AND CONTEMPLATION
JEREMIAH:
his call came during the complicated period of Judah. His two visions indicated
the content of his commission. He was called by God in the 13th year
of Josiah. Jeremiah is a prophet called to a mission to preach to and admonish
the nation of Israel during the reign of the Davidic kings (Josiah, Jehoiakim,
and Zedekiah). His mission was basically centered on the concept of reformation
and renewal, thus he was set over ‘nations and kingdoms to uproot and knock
down, to destroy and over throw, to build and plant’.[1] He
was a man of strife and dissension for the whole community, living and
prophesying during the tragic years preceding and succeeding the ruin of the
kingdom of Judah. Jeremiah practiced an inward and heartfelt contemplation of God;
his suffering purified his soul and made it more open to God. With contemplation
he was able to conquer the challenges that faced him as a prophet during the
ruin of the kingdom of Judah.
EZEKIEL:
Ezekiel as a prophet demonstrated a quality and character of mission (a call)
and contemplation. Ezekiel received his mission from God which can be summoned
up as a mission of revival, thus the dry bones shall rise again. Nevertheless, He
started his mission with an exclusive reproach and threats addressed to the Israelites
before the siege of Jerusalem. Ezekiel’s whole ministry was among the exiles in
Babylon between 593 and 571. His contemplation of God is evident in the
narration of the four visions he had.
ISAIAH:
Isaiah is quite an important figure in the prophets of the Old Testament. He
had a definite vocation; he received his prophetic vocation while he was in the
temple of Jerusalem and his mission was to proclaim the fall of Israel and of
Judah as punishment for the nations infidelity. His mission can be summed up
under the concept of judgment, justification and punishment. Isaiah’s calling
was to serve as God’s emissary; his contemplation of God is shown by the
purification of his lips with a burning charcoal.
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