Vatican City (Fides Service) - Vocation to Service, is the theme Message written by Pope John Paul II for the 40th Day of Prayer for Vocations, which the Church will mark on 11 May 2003. "In today's culture, - the Pope says - the person who serves is considered inferior; but in sacred history the servant is the one called by God to carry out a particular action of salvation and redemption. The servant knows that he has received all he has and is. As a result, he also feels called to place what he has received at the service of others. In the Bible, service is always linked to a specific call that comes from God. For this reason, it represents the greatest fulfilment of the dignity of the creature, as well as that which invokes the creature's mysterious, transcendent dimension. This was the case in the life of Jesus, too, the faithful Servant who was called to carry out the universal work of redemption." See complete message in English, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish at www.fides.org. (Fides Service 25/11/2002)