Nairobi, 10 December, 2022 / 6:25 pm (ACI Africa).
Vocation to Religious Life is a fruit of God’s grace and is therefore not a possession of an individual person but “belongs to God”, Bishop Mark Kadima said during the profession of 11 members of the Congregation of Sisters of Mary of Kakamega (SMK).
In his homily during the celebration that took place at Sacred Heart Mukumu Parish of Kakamega Diocese on Thursday, December 8, the Local Ordinary of Kenya’s Bungoma Diocese told the newly professed SMK members that the call of God they had responded to “belongs to the Church”.
“The vocation you have is not yours; it belongs to God and it belongs to the Church; it’s a gift of grace from God,” he said during the Eucharistic celebration that was concelebrated by the Local Ordinary of Kakamega Diocese, Bishop Joseph Sagwe Obanyi.
Bishop Kadima urged the newly professed Nuns to hold firmly to their vows even when they are in doubt.
“After these vows and you discover that you had no vocation, live as if you had it because grace overcomes nature; what nature does not have, grace gives,” the Kenyan Catholic Bishop said.