I was recently reminded that once Father Giussani said that the worst enemy of vocation is skepticism. Vocation happens in the present, the present reality in front of me. In fact, reality is the place in which the Lord calls. Skepticism is born out of the scandal that the form of this call, which is the real reality in front of me, generates in me. In other words, it means to have an objection to the way in which the Lord decides to reach us, that is through the incarnation: Christ.

The last weekend we had the CL South Region diaconia in Miami. For me it was an event that incarnated mercy: The mercy of the Lord towards my person.

Last Saturday and Sunday, I was surrounded by people who responded to their vocation by answering to a particular call. Forty people came from Puerto Rico, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, choosing to use their time, energies and money to answer to the invitation of taking part to this diaconia meeting.

The mercy of God happens through a human witness. I was struck by the availability of José Pedro and Vickie, Joe and Victoria, who generously accepted to host in their house a bunch of hungry people for dinner. Eddie and Miriam, Lourdes and Roger, and my companions of the Memores Domini house, hosted some friends for the night. Esmeralda joined us on Saturday night notwithstanding the surgery she had a few days earlier.

These are no small things. On the contrary, they witness the victory of Christ over skepticism. Because it is His fascinating beauty that wins over our “buts and ifs”, and makes us say “yes!”.