In German, the same word, Beruf, means both \u201cvocation\u201d and \u201cprofession.\u201d
\nThis is also the case for us: working for the Works is a vocation.
\nIt is not a \u201creligious\u201d matter: it is that we precisely look for People who feel called to work with us (the Latin verb vocare means just that, \u201cto call\u201d).
\nWhen we say that in Foundations people come to work out of vocation before they come to work, we mean that all collaborators must know, share and make their own the purpose, the charism of the Work.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Therefore, anyone who works for the Works is an Educator: that is the role, whatever his or her task. For to identify oneself with the charism of the Work means, inevitably, to consider it as a benchmark for one’s own human needs, and to propose it to anyone one encounters. To propose it not with a speech, of course, but by the way one approaches any aspect of one’s task.
\nSynthetically, we could say that we are all educators because we are all seriously engaged with the questions that move life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>