Fr. Benjamin Sember
The Call of Peter – Homily for the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
http://holypriesthood.blogspot.com/
Pastor of Holy Family Catholic Community in Fond du Lac, WI
Pope Benedict XVI has called the whole Church to celebrate a Year for Priests ! His purpose for this year is to encourage priests in their “striving for spiritual perfection on which, above all, the effectiveness of their ministry depends” and to highlight “the importance of the priest’s role and mission in the Church and in contemporary society”. To do this the Holy Father calls us to a renewed focus on the centrality of Christ in our lives and in the Church and that “brings with it the correct appreciation of the ministerial priesthood, without which there would be neither the Eucharist, nor even the mission nor the Church herself”. This same year is the 150th anniversary of the death of St John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, and also the occasion of the visit to England of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux – who from her Carmelite convent showed her life-long devotion to priests by praying for them, supporting them and corresponding with them. In a recent letter from Cardinal Hummes, prefect to the Congregation for the clergy he asks that “this year be an occasion for a period of intense appreciation of the priestly identity, of the theology of the Catholic priesthood, and of the extraordinary meaning of the vocation and mission of priests within the Church and in society.
Let’s Pray for our Priests!!!
Love them, Support them, encourage them…
Especially our very own Chaplain, Fr. Quinn
Remember…
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