The readings for the third Sunday in Ordinary Time invite us again to reflect on the theme of Christian vocation and discipleship. The first reading reminds us of the famous story of the prophet Jonah who reluctantly accepted God’s mission to go to Nineveh to call their inhabitants to repentance. On the other hand, the gospel presents us with Jesus’ first disciples who promptly responded his call and left behind their profession and families to follow him. At the first glance, these readings might seem to speak only of those who in some way dedicated their lives to God: priests, religious, lay missionaries. All the rest – the majority of the people of God – those who are in the married state or chose a single life, seem to be left out from the plan of Jesus. At least, many seem to interpret the reading this way. Nothing is farthest from the truth than that. The first proclamation of Jesus at the beginning of his public ministry announces the arrival of the kingdom of God. Jesus himself embodies that kingdom and he comes in power to heal, to teach and to save his people. But that announcement requires a response from each of us—we are free to welcome or reject Jesus’ message. And he meets his first disciples at work, in the ordinary circumstances of their lives. Being fishermen, they spent their lives on the Lake of Galilee or in its proximity. Fishing and the lake were their natural environment, their profession—that was their life. And then Someone enters that life and opens to them a new perspective and extends an invitation to a new experience. They accepted it and followed, leaving behind all their securities and the life they knew so well. In this new life Jesus was to be the only point of reference for them. No anymore their plans, their projects, their relationships, their aspirations were to be the source of their happiness, now it was Jesus to be in the center or their existence. With difficulty they had to learn that lessen step by step. As we said that story is not just for some selected people. Jesus wants to enter our lives; he wants to be part of our daily existence with its joys, challenges, and pains—so that we may have a first-hand experience of his love, forgiveness, and healing power. Only in this way we can become his disciples and spread his saving messages. “This is the time of fulfillment.” (Mark 1:14), Jesus comes today to do something new in our lives. But he is waiting for our decision. The world often tells us that we have no choice, no other option, that there is no mercy and forgiveness for our sins. But it is not like that with God. Only he makes us truly free, only he always gives us a different option. This Sunday reminds us that to be a disciple of Jesus means to accept the challenge of an adventure of life with him.