EWTN news: Thousands of Priests at Prayer Vigil for Year for Priests

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Please take a look and bookmark

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Here’s a link to the Hymn “Immaculate Mother”:  http://sites.google.com/site/liturgysongs/mother

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!

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Here’s the link: Television Specials

Sharing here a few of the videos found on the Priests channel of EWTN:

Fr. John Corapi

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

Fr. Benedict Groeschel

Fr. Frank Pavone

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Here’s a link to an instrumental of the beautiful hymn: “O Sacred Heart [O Love Divine]“

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As the Year for Priests ends this Friday, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we are called upon to reflect on the effort we have exerted to understand the real meaning of the Priesthood and to give support to the Holy Father and all his brothers in the Priestly ministry, realizing that the ministry of Priests is one “of governing, in the name of Christ, the flock entrusted to his care…”

There are many videos that explain the Year for Priests.  We share here two of those:

By now, thousands of Priests must be gathered together in Rome for the International Meeting of Priests, 9-11 June 2010.  The ceremonies will include TV connections from the Vatican with Ars, the cenacle in Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, and Hollywood. Let us offer a lot of prayers and sacrifices for this important event.

Related article:

• Year for Priests

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Watch the live webcast of the ordination of 32 Opus Dei Priests this Saturday, May 8.  You’ll be directed to the Italy official website.  You may also follow the transmission via the website of Beta Films foundation.

In the Spanish official website, you’d find video interviews with two of those to be ordained:

• Francisco Javier Pizarro who says, among other things, that the good example of laypersons is always a great help for Priests;
• Oscar Regojo who tells us that his having met good Priests when he was young caused him to tell himself “I should fly high when I grow older”.

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Just in case you missed “May Feelings III”, please watch:

Let us pray for our Priests!

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If you’re in Facebook, we encourage you to join the group “Yo tengo un amigo Sacerdote que es genial aunque los medios digan que no”, which is phenomenally successful, with close to 2,000 members signing up daily!

Don’t fail to read the following entries in this blog:

• Year for Priests
• Prayer for Vocations

The 47th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, to be celebrated on the Fourth Sunday of Easter – Good Shepherd Sunday – 25 April 2010, shall focus on the Theme: Witness Awakens Vocations.

Part of the message of the Holy Father for this day reads: “The fruitfulness of our efforts to promote vocations depends primarily on God’s free action, yet, as pastoral experience confirms, it is also helped by the quality and depth of the personal and communal witness of those who have already answered the Lord’s call to the ministerial priesthood and to the consecrated life, for their witness is then able to awaken in others a desire to respond generously to Christ’s call. This theme is thus closely linked to the life and mission of priests and of consecrated persons. Hence I wish to invite all those whom the Lord has called to work in his vineyard to renew their faithful response, particularly in this Year for Priests which I proclaimed on the 150^thanniversary of the death of Saint John Mary Vianney, the Curé of Ars, an ever-timely model of a priest and a pastor.”

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The following video “I will give you Shepherds…”, from “Vocation Boom”, shows young men ready to serve and to be generous:

In response to the Pope’s message, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a vocations campaign ForYourVocation.org, which shall offer resources for people in discernment and will include info for parents, teachers, catechists, vocation directors. Watch out for this!

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• Vocation to Opus Dei: For this topic, please read the “Essay on the Vocation to Opus Dei” written by John Coverdale.
• Recent General Congress: The official website in Spanish tells us of an Ordinary General Congress that was just held in Rome.  As the news item says, General Congresses are held in the Work every eight years. For info on what a General Congress is, see the entry in the Opus Dei today forum on the General Congress of Einsiedeln in 1956.

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In the next video, Father Jim Steffes talks about the Year for Priests and encourages all the faithful to participate in prayer for the strengthening of this special vocation:

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For more information about the Year for Priests, go to:

• Annus Sacerdotalis official website
• USCCB Year for Priests
• An earlier Year for Priests entry here at Opus Dei Today

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