Being summoned by God is something we need to get used to. Today's gospel particularly illustrates this. Jesus called some of his disciples and sent them as His apostles. He calls us all the time because He is always in touch with us. Our problem is that we are not disposed well enough to be sensitive to His summons consciously. We are His creatures. In man's case, each man is specifically and individually summoned by God from nothing. He thought and freely willed each of us to existence, when we were conceived and from then on for eternally, in whatever circumstances that happened, whether by the marital embrace, or by rape, or by a lab technician in a petri dish.
