Working in vocation promotion brings you closer to the innermost core of the person you accompany and allows you to see that God is at work in the depths of that person. It involves discernment work among the 150 people who express a desire to enter the Society every year, which then translates into 5 or 8 entries into the novitiate.

Among them all, there are anecdotes that invite humour because of the lack of knowledge with which some of them arrive, and others sadness, because of the desire to flee from their own life that many others express. There is no single pattern for all new vocations, although there are some common characteristics.

Alfonso Alonso-Lasheras SJ (Fonfo), coordinator of the province's vocation promotion team since the summer of 2020, talks to us about all this as the new Vocation Promotion Plan, which will be in force until 2026 and is aimed not only at Jesuits, but also at lay people and all Jesuit institutions, begins to be disseminated at the start of the academic year.

Access to the interview (in Spanish)

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