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What is a vocation? A vocation is a special call from God to give your life to serve him and to serve others. When you feel that call, you want to put everything else aside and dedicate yourself completely, 24/7 to serving God. Why does Primavera choose to support vocations? In order to serve God effectively, you need formation, you need training. Most especially, you have to learn how to pray, to ground yourself in God. You also need a deeper grasp of Christian doctrine. You need to learn exactly how to put your natural talents at the service of this newfound mission. All of that takes time. It takes years of training and formation. Supporting vocations means, in part, making sure people have three meals a day during that training, making sure they have clothes, making sure they don’t have to worry about where they are going to sleep, so that they can focus on becoming the missionary God has created them to be.
How does Primavera support vocations in a unique way? I think there are really two things that are completely unique about the way Primavera supports vocations. 1.First of all, for exactly what they want to support. It doesn’t want to build fancy buildings, necessarily. It wants to support the day-to-day needs of these men and women who are giving their lives. Primavera wants to take care of these children of the Church, God’s children, these works of art fashioned by God’s grace. 2. The second thing is the manner in which they do that. They support vocations through art, through finding great artists and commissioning great works of art in the tradition of Christian spirituality, in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rafael, and the making reproductions of these works, spreading them throughout the world. Primavera wants to bring top-quality reproductions of these great works of art to parishes, missionary formation centers, universities, so that everywhere you go you find these images of God’s beauty, which are reminders that God is still at work in the world. How are vocations ans art connected? A vocation is God’s work of art. The Primavera Foundation is supporting those works of art fashioned by God’s grace, through creating works of art in the studios of today’s great artists. In this way, the Foundation is fostering renewal from two directions: from the inside, where these young men and women are receiving their formation, and from the outside, where people can see these great works of art and be reminded by their beauty that God has not abandoned them. The above mentioned explanation of how and why Primavera Fine Art supports vocations has been provided by Fr. John Bartuneck, LC, author of Inside the Passion (2005: Ascension Press). To watch the video, click here.
Fr. John Bartunek Tells His Story Supporting vocations through art is a perfect fit. My own vocation to the priesthood was directly influenced by exposure to great works of Catholic art from past centuries. Now that we are witnessing the beginnings of a rebirth of vocations in the Church, it seems that the Holy Spirit, through the Primavera Fine Art Foundation, has also inspired the beginnings of a rebirth of great Catholic art. To me, it is an undeniable proof of what Pope Benedict XVI said in his very first homily as Pope: “The Church is young! Watch
the video "Father John Bartunek Tells His Story" Sister Maria Goretti, Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia “Without the sacrifices of those who have supported our community, I would not be able to be a Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia today. Without support for vocations, there would be a tremendous loss for the Church.” Watch
the video clip of Sister Maria Goretti Please visit our blog at http://primaverafineart.blogspot.com |
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