The Benedictine Lambach Abbey in Upper Austria is taking a new approach to vocational pastoral care. Young men and women are led to discover their own personal call and explore their own life journey in a communal context. February 6th will mark the start of the journey of the “Vocation Group”, which will be named “In search of a vocation – discovering the path of life”: it will not be just a guide to a religious call, but it will be open to anyone looking for guidance in different existential situations. The Abbot of Lambach, Father Maximilian Neulinger, pointed out that vocation should not only be taken in a spiritual or ecclesial sense. “We take the idea that anyone has a call seriously. The Second Vatican Council repeatedly clarified that”, the Abbot emphasised in a statement to news agency Kathpress. “God calls people to life as human beings but also as Christians. We look for a call, we are called: to different forms of life, in marriage, in relationships, in ordination, in religious life or in other forms”. The programme has been devised to last two years, with meetings in the evening every two months, in which sharing and mutual prayer will feature prominently. According to Father Maximilian Neulinger, the vocation group “will take special care of a respectful interaction and the promotion of everyone’s life journey”, with the Abbot himself and other monks from the Monastery as guests.