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Priesthood as a Vocation

One life to live.

 One chance to live it.
Will you give your life for Christ?

We are priests, Christ has called us to "leave everything and follow Him."

The work He has called us to do at the service of the Church and our neighbor requires of us everything we are and have, and we give it freely out of love.

Could He be calling you also? 

Ordination to the priesthood is followed by a life dedicated to the ministry.  

           Preparation for the priesthood implies total commitment.  Nothing less than what was asked of the fishermen from Galilee is asked of those whom Christ calls today. Christ needs men of prayer who see the world, its events and needs through eyes of faith - men who put their hands to the plow without looking back. 

    We are priests. Through retreats, the sacraments - especially the Eucharist and Reconciliation - and spiritual direction we lead souls to conversion, to live the life of grace. Through instruction in the Faith and prayer we help them mature and deepen this life within them. We help them organize so as to spread the message of salvation - to be apostles - not only through their prayer and example, but also by concrete action.

    Once ordained we do not sit back, or slump, resting on our oars. We cannot. The urgency of the mission does not allow us; the world around us and its gasping needs do not allow us. The … ideal of what a priest should be, is this: an active, dynamic apostle, always looking ahead, setting new goals, seeking to be effective in bringing Christ to the world around him, sensitive to the abyss into which the passions of men have drawn us, and convinced of the fact that only lives rooted in Christ and spent in unrelenting and faithful service to Him can change the world.

 

 

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