Responding to the Calling of the Word

When the Word digs inside you and changes you…

“I did not hear ‘Maria!’ but ‘Giacomo!’. That Word challenged me, it grabbed my attention.” Fr. Giacomo Pavanello recalls the beginnings of his vocation: the memory of that moment is still marked by the joyful emotion of a significant experience of God and the strength of his Word. He enters the seminary, but realizes that it is not yet the right time: there is a time for everything, like “looking inside” and making things clear. A meeting in with Chiara Amirante in Padua led him to follow the Comunità Nuovi Orizzonti  and to say definitively “Here I am!” at God’s priestly call. Today he is parish priest of Saint Joseph Cottolengo in Rome  where he testifiy to the vitality of the Word of God among his people. “I was asked to be the father of many people, of a precise ‘piece’ of the Church: my parish, geographically connotated. There can be no true love if there is no donation, because truly there is more joy in giving than in receiving.” Here is the testimony of Fr. Giacomo.