Adoration for Vocations to be Promoted Worldwide

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Code: ZE05011720

Date: 2005-01-17

Adoration for Vocations to be Promoted Worldwide

ROME, JAN. 17, 2005 (Zenit.org).- In the Year of the Eucharist, Serra International and the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education are working to make it a year of adoration for vocations.

On Nov. 24, the two organizations launched the Worldwide Adoration for Vocations campaign in Rome, with John Paul II blessing six monstrances, which will be used to promote the effort in continents worldwide.

The U.S. bishops' conference officially launched the campaign in North America on Jan. 12 with Adoration for Vocations at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and concluding with Mass in the crypt.

On Jan. 3, Danny Gonzales, national director of the campaign, presented one of the monstrances blessed by the Pope to Father Edward Burns, executive director of the bishops' Secretariat for Priestly Formation and Vocations.

The bishops' conference plans to send the monstrance to various dioceses to promote Adoration for Vocations during the Year of the Eucharist.

Adoration for Vocations is a program that provides the tools and support needed to launch Eucharistic adoration groups in every locality. The program is designed to help faithful rediscover the gift of the Eucharist, while promoting vocations to the priesthood and all forms of consecrated life.

More information is posted at www.vocation.com.

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For your information and discussion.

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**The bishops' conference plans to send the monstrance to various dioceses to promote Adoration for Vocations during the Year of the Eucharist.**

Very interesting item here -- everyone ping in when you get this monstrance in your parish!

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PERPETUAL ADORATION [The Monks of the Adoration]

"The best, the surest , and the most effective way of establishing everlasting peace on the face of the earth is through the great power of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament." -- Pope John Paul II

"Could you not watch one hour?" -- Mark 14:37

[sinkspur]

By all means, let us pray for vocations.

But, let's do something practical, as well. Why not encourage every priest in the United States to ask one man, over the course of the next year, to consider the priesthood as a vocation?

Angels will never recruit anybody to the religious life, but flesh and blood human beings will.

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I would assume that all arch/dioceses have retreats for young men (and even some older ones) to attend and hopefully move along the journey of discerning a vocation.

I know here in the PDX Archdiocese the Benedictines just had one.

The Archbishop just conducted one as well -- and our priest spoke about it at every Mass for two weeks. (And it was free for those attending!)

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Let's ask out priests to have adoration for the purpose of recruiting more vocations. It can't hurt...................

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THANKS FOR THE PING!

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Angels will never recruit anybody to the religious life, but flesh and blood human beings will.

Just how do you know angels will never recruit anyone to the religious life? They seemed to be able to recruit The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.

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They seemed to be able to recruit The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.

That was a very limited engagement, seeing as how they've not made any encores.

Priests are recruited by other priests. That's how it works.

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Salvation, check out this article...

Bush's embrace of faith cheered

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Has that been posted?

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O Lord, grant us priests!

O Lord, grant us many priests!

O Lord, grant us many holy priests!

O Lord, grant us many holy religious vocations!

Thursdays are especially good and fitting to pray for all priests, priests we know living and deceased, and for vocations to the priesthood. Thursday calls to mind Holy Thursday when Our Lord instituded the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

Here's an interesting story. I don't have a link to it. It came from a SSPX chapel bulletin.

Mothers of Lu

Somewhere in northern Italy is a rural area containing the town of Lu with about four thousand residents. Families with six to ten children are the rule.

In 1881, the mothers of the families of Lu began coming together on the First Sunday of each month to assist at Holy Mass and to receive Holy Communion. What the women brought about by these spiritual exercises is expressed very beautifully in the prayer which they recited together at this Mass.

The women of Lu prayed all these years since 1881. The prayer was short yet so powerful that a flood of priestly vocations were bestowed upon the town. In fifty years, the prayers of these mothers have won at least five hundred priestly and religious vocations from out of the relatively small village. But, remember, it was only in the town of Lu that for those fifty years, the good women were assisting together at the First Sunday Mass specifically for the intention of religious vocations!

Happy, blessed Lu!

The prayers of a mother are indeed powerful when they are intended to beg heaven for priestly vocations. It almost seems that God waits upon mothers for their prayers, and then vocations bloom like flowers in May.

The prayer reads:

O God, grant that one of my sons becomes a priest! I promise to live as a good Christian woman and will lead my children to all that is good, wherewith I hope to receive the grace to be able to give to You, O God, a holy priest.

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I don't believe so.