The religious vocation is ‘foremost an adventure of love,’ Pope tells Augustinians
September 17, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV addressed participants in the general chapter of the Order of Saint Augustine and told them that “our first concern should be that of helping, especially the young, to glimpse the beauty of the calling and to love what they could become by embracing their vocation.”
“Vocation and formation are not pre-ordained realities: they are a spiritual adventure that involves the entire history of the person, and it is first and foremost an adventure of love with God,” Pope Leo said in his September 15 address at the Augustinian Patristic Pontifical Institute.
The Augustinian Pope also discussed theological study and intellectual formation, community life and apostolic activity, and the order’s missionary vocation. The Pope said that “this missionary spirit must not be allowed to die out, because even today there is a great need for it.”
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