tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25609714957840324252024-03-12T22:38:39.946-04:00Eucharistic Adoration for Priests"...I want souls who are dedicated with fervor,
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to plead day and night for My priests."
~ Jesus to Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida ~one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.comBlogger655125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-60893680419197438042014-07-24T10:24:00.000-04:002014-07-24T10:24:19.486-04:00Joseph Lee Hooker: "Our Priests" Shows Solidarity and Support for the Priesthood<strong></strong><br />
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<strong>"I've known so many priests in my life who have helped and supported me in my struggles and my faith," Hooker said. "Those priests, the true shepherds, help to heal and erase the damage done by others." The artist's response was to create this inspirational work that calls priests to a higher standard and has received an apostolic blessing from the pope.</strong><br />
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<strong>Lyrics:<br /><br />In this world of darkness, still there shines a light<br />Standing with God's people to show them what is right<br />They carry on the wisdom that God has handed down<br />They are truly diamonds in our Savior's crown<br /><br />Our priests, they are treasures<br />Their hands, our saving grace<br />Instruments of God, they must never be disgraced<br />Our priests<br /><br />The world calls and taunts them, yet they firmly stand<br />Bringing light to darkness at the Lord's command<br />Serving Bread of Angels to the hungry lambs<br />Their voice of truth will lead us to the Promised Land<br /><br />Eyes upon the Saviour, guided by their vow<br />Strongly must they shepherd, yet humbly must they bow</strong><br />
<strong>Shining light from heaven, teaching truth sublime<br />Reaching for perfection, touching the divine<br /><br />Our priests, our saving grace, our priests<br />Never be disgraced, our priests, our saving grace<br /><br />Copyright 2009, 2010 Joseph Lee Hooker<br />Published by: Come Alive Communications, Inc., ASCAP<br />All world rights reserved.<br />Come Alive Music - "The Melody of Inspiration"</strong></div>
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-53521828587439802222013-05-11T10:50:00.000-04:002013-05-11T10:50:01.338-04:003-Year-Old Samuel Jaramillo "Celebrates" Mass and Wants to Be a Priest<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<strong>~ Excerpts from <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/video-of-3-year-old-celebrating-mass-becomes-online-hit/">here</a>. ~</strong></div>
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-46041175614198103452013-05-07T10:29:00.000-04:002013-05-07T10:44:07.706-04:00 Tribute to Pope Benedict XVI<div style="text-align: justify;">
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-7759150427204436142013-03-19T10:03:00.000-04:002013-03-19T10:03:51.668-04:00Future Pope Francis on Holy Eucharist, Priesthood, Vocations to the Priesthood <div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>"In the last Supper we have been born as priests. There isn't the Eucharist without the priesthood and the priesthood doesn't exist without the Eucharist. Only the priest who has received the Sacrament of Holy Orders can validly celebrate the Eucharist, because there is something mysterious there.</strong></div>
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<strong>"The Eucharist isn't a reunion of friends who come to pray and eat bread and wine. The Eucharist is fundamentally priestly, because the first Eucharist was celebrated in a priestly way by the unique High Priest, in whose priesthood we ourselves participate, Jesus Christ. He was the priest and was the victim of the Sacrifice.</strong></div>
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<strong>"Once when I was in the seminary, my grandmother told me never to forget that I was going to be a priest, and the most important thing for a priest was to celebrate the Mass. And she reminded me about a mother who said to her son, who was a very holy priest, she told him, "Celebrate the Mass, each Mass, as if it were the first and the last."</strong></div>
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<strong>"With what greatness the priest has to prepare himself to celebrate the Holy Eucharist. Such a beautiful thing! Such a great thing! Something that fills us with joy! And what applies to the priest also applies in a way to each of the faithful who participate in the common priesthood of all the faithful. He can't celebrate the Eucharist, but he can participate in the celebration. This is the greatest thing that can take place during the day. It is the most profound, the most priestly. </strong><strong>For this reason we unite ourselves to Jesus Christ the Priest who offers His Sacrifice to the Father.</strong></div>
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-1257345695686178742013-03-14T11:36:00.000-04:002013-03-14T11:51:36.184-04:00Pope Francis Asks For Prayers: Join Rosary for the Bishop <strong>"First and foremost I would like to say a prayer for our Bishop Emeritus Benedict XVI. Let us pray together for him, that the Lord bless him and the Virgin keep him.”</strong>
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<strong>Now I would like to impart the blessing, but first, first I ask a favor of
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He bless me: the prayer of the people asking a blessing for their bishop. Let us
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<strong>~ Join Rosary for the Bishop for Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome, </strong><strong> <a href="http://rosaryforthebishop.org/statistics/francis">here</a>. </strong><br />
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<strong>~ Join Rosary for the Bishop for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, <a href="http://rosaryforthebishop.org/statistics/benedict-xvi">here</a>. ~</strong><br />
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<strong>You now have the opportunity to actively be part of this providential endeavour by having a Cardinal assigned to you, who you will support through your prayer and intercession during the coming weeks before and during the conclave and for three days following the election.</strong><br />
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-29911851694824432582013-02-01T17:55:00.000-05:002013-02-01T17:55:41.533-05:00 Why the Church Cannot Change the Priesthood to Allow Women Priests<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>"In theology we base ourselves not on human expectations, but we base ourselves on the revealed Word of God--on what God has said--and the priesthood is not a natural human social function. The Catholic priesthood is tied with the unique priesthood of Christ, which means we are not free to invent the priesthood according to our own customs, according to our own expectations. We interpret the priesthood through Christ, and the Catholic priesthood has been instituted by Christ--not invented by the Church. </strong></div>
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<strong>"The apostles were not elected. They were not designated by the crowds. They didn't propose themselves. They were chosen by Christ. He chose men as priests.</strong></div>
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<strong>"At the Incarnation the Son of God became flesh, and became flesh not in a sexless humanity but as a male. So this is the fundamental reason why the Church cannot change the priesthood, the understanding of the priesthood, allowing for the ordination of women."</strong></div>
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-59603124617073952602012-12-14T12:25:00.000-05:002012-12-14T12:25:02.058-05:00 Opus Bono Sacerdotii Calling All Catholics to Help Priests in Need<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>"My dear friends, be aware of the great gift that priests represent for the Church and the world. Through their ministry the Lord continues to save mankind, to make Himself present, to sanctify. Give thanks to God and above all remain close to your priests with prayer and support, </strong><strong>especially in moments of difficulty”.
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<strong>O Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest and exemplar of priestly holiness and dignity, we are grateful to You for having chosen certain men for the ministerial priesthood by which You continue to instruct, admonish, forgive, nourish and strengthen Your Church.
We are sorely awware of the great need of priests in our time to be confirmed in their sacred calling so that they may continue confidently in their ministry of mediating Your graces to men and of representing them before Your august majesty.
Relying on the intercession of Holy Mary, Mother of priests, and of Saint Joseph, Her beloved spouse, we beg Your help for the priests who are the most troubled, tempted, discouraged and suffering.
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-46615724154168754522012-04-21T09:29:00.000-04:002012-04-21T09:29:31.714-04:00CatholicPrayerCards.org: A Prayer for All Bishops<div style="text-align: justify;">
<strong>With the ever increasing attack on our religious freedoms, our Bishops are on the front battle lines of the war on religion.
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<strong>"In my review of David F. Pierre’s landmark book, Catholic Priests Falsely Accused, I pointed out the hard evidence raised by former Los Angeles prosecutor Donald Steier that a full fifty percent of the claims against Catholic priests have been false and tainted by the lure of money. This aspect of the scandal has been grossly overlooked by the entire Church, and a part of our sacrifice as a Church must not be to sacrifice justice for priests falsely accused.
Someone might argue that I have a vested interest in taking that position. Perhaps that’s true, but no justice afforded to me now will give me back even one of the 6,361 days and nights taken from me in prison. Those are my sacrifice, and this Lent I offer that sacrifice for the Church, for the priesthood, and for the readers of These Stone Walls who come here from the city on a hill with a search for truth and justice in their hearts."</strong>
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<strong>~ Fr. Gordon MacRae, excerpt from <a href="http://www.thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/in-a-city-on-a-hill-lent-sacrifice-and-the-passage-of-time/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheseStoneWalls+%28These+Stone+Walls%29">here</a> ~</strong></div>
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<strong>*EXCLUSIVE REPORT* <a href="http://www.themediareport.com/2012/02/20/new-evidence-may-exonerate-priest-gordon-j-macrae/">Alarming New Evidence May Exonerate Imprisoned Priest</a></strong></div>
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<strong>It is the simple prayer of adoration<br />that renders a priest fit for the sacred ministry<br />by giving him a pure heart<br />and by correcting all that is incompatible with My Divine Holiness<br />and with My Priestly Love in his life.<br />This way of holiness through adoration<br />is a secret revealed to My saints in ages past,<br />and it is a gift that I am offering My priests<br />in these times of impurity, persecution, and darkness.</strong><br />
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<strong>For impurity,<br />I will give them a shining purity <br />that will blaze before the eyes of the world<br />as a testimony to Divine Love.<br />For persecution<br />I will give them a manly strength and a resoluteness of purpose<br />that will confound those who plot their downfall.<br />For darkness<br />I will give them a clear light by which to order their steps<br />and see what choices are pleasing to My Heart.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Heavenly Father, source of all holiness, You raise up within the Church in every age men and women who serve with heroic love and dedication. You have blessed Your Church through the life and ministry of Your faithful servant, Archbishop Fulton J Sheen. He has written and spoken well of Your Divine Son, Jesus Christ, and was a true instrument of the Holy Spirit in touching the hearts of countless people.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://eucharisticadorationforpriests.blogspot.com/2010/12/fr-stefano-manelli-helping-priests-in.html">Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli</a> was born in Fiume/Rijeka (Hrvatska), Italy on May 1, 1933. His parents were Servant of God Settimio Manelli and Servant of God Licia Gualandris, <a href="http://gratefulforpurgatory.blogspot.com/2010/09/spiritual-children-of-st-padre-pio.html">spiritual children of St. Pio of Prietrelcina. </a>He was the sixth of the twenty-one children.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
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<strong>"Stunned by the image of the towering inferno, I was in a daze while collecting the Holy Oils, stole, and prayer book needed to administer the Sacraments. This would not be the first time in 30 years of priesthood that I would walk into a disaster such as this. In 1972 in Hong Kong, I was waist deep in the mud of a landslide that took the lives of 72 people. I learned how important it was to be an instrument of God’s presence and am still humbled by that privilege. I knew that the presence of a priest would be important to both survivors and responders that morning at the World Trade Center."</strong><br />
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<strong>"God’s presence was made visible in the Sacraments of the Church, the ministry of the priesthood, and the compassion shown toward the victims by the first responders. It was spontaneous and unexpected as are so many important and meaningful occasions of God’s presence in the face of evil. God’s grace led me down to the World Trade Center that day. The needs of the people and victims were more important than the risk of being there. I did think that I would see God face-to-face that morning."</strong></div>
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<strong>What a gift and privilege it was to be an instrument of God’s grace and part of the team of people from all walks of life who made God so present to all on that day. In our own life journey everyday, we continue to experience God’s presence in these people and this place.</strong></div>
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<strong><em>Father Raymond Nobiletti, M.M., </em><a href="http://www.maryknollsociety.org/index.php/articles/2-articles/785">excerpts from his remembrance of 9/11</a></strong></div>
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-76516870103353602252011-08-25T18:25:00.002-04:002011-08-25T18:33:47.491-04:00Servants of Christ Priest: Lives Offered for the Sanctification of Priests<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>We offer our life as a continuous offering for the personal sanctification of all priests of the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church...</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Servants of Christ the Priest is a new foundation of Catholic religious family, with all the difficulties that has a new foundation, in existence for two years in the Diocese of Porto - Portugal, with a canonical process for approval of the Statutes of the Community course. This new foundation has the charisma and intended to promote dignity of the liturgy, parishes and religious communities that do not sing the Divine Office, forming and helping the people of God for the worthy celebration of the praise due to the Blessed Trinity. + You who love the God, look upon those who work in establishing the kingdom of Christ! This new religious family needs your help! + All the work of God, born of His holy will, and grow by the Brothers of Charity. We, the Servants of Christ the Priest, despite the great desire to serve Christ in all of our being, we can not do it for lack of physical and economic conditions. Thanks to the glorious action of Divine Providence, we have place for our first convent, however, we need material for our Chapel and all aid is welcome. We still need a wood stove, dishwasher, beds, etc., so we implore the Holy Trinity that touch the hearts of all our brothers in Christ, so that with everyone's help, we can bring to fruition, this work of God started in us. For our part, we will continue to say YES - FIAT, as the Blessed Virgin Mary, our Mother, Patroness and Queen, with the title of Holy Mother Church, so that, like her, regardless of the difficulties and obstacles, can deliver us all day, those who in His infinite mercy, has delivered us from darkness, and called us into his marvelous light. You, dear brother, dear sister, you read this letter, if God calls you to work with him, asking you what He Himself has given you, you respond to His holy calling, for this cause by sharing the little they have not forgetting, which is never how much is it that pleases God, but the joy of doing, and, in the person of the brothers, serve the Lord Christ himself. We hope that very soon, we can arrange a ride-living, our small and very dear convent, so that everyone can see for themselves the place that He, in His infinite goodness, has prepared in order The radicalism of the total serving a life consecrated to Him and delivered, to the salvation of souls and the sanctification of his priests. * This community lives in Providence and love of the brothers committed and faithful to Jesus Christ ... * * Help this work God to grow and multiply! * * Be a Patron of the Work of God! * * May the Lord Almighty, the reward at 100 for 1! * + Come, ye blessed of my Father! + Servants of Christ the Priest Street Tristan Vaz Teixeira, 97, 2 TC 4435-494 RIO TINTO PORTUGAL@ general servosdecristo priest . com +351 22 4881348 (Translation by Google)</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-77711837503638731952011-08-23T15:39:00.000-04:002011-08-23T15:39:34.073-04:00Pope Benedict XVI Counsels Seminarians in Madrid During World Youth Day 2011<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"To be modeled on Christ, dear seminarians, is to be identified ever more closely with him who, for our sake, became servant, priest and victim. To be modeled on him is in fact the task upon which the priest spends his entire life. We already know that it is beyond us and we will not fully succeed but, as St Paul says, we run towards the goal, hoping to reach it (cf. Phil 3:12-14). </strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"That said, Christ the High Priest is also the Good Shepherd who cares for his sheep, even giving his life for them (cf. Jn 10:11). In order to liken yourselves to the Lord in this as well, your heart must mature while in seminary, remaining completely open to the Master. This openness, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, inspires the decision to live in celibacy for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and, leaving aside the world’s goods, live in austerity of life and sincere obedience, without pretence." </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Under the guidance of your formators, open your hearts to the light of the Lord, to see if this path which demands courage and authenticity is for you. Approach the priesthood only if you are firmly convinced that God is calling you to be his ministers, and if you are completely determined to exercise it in obedience to the Church’s precepts. </strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"With this confidence, learn from him who described himself as meek and humble of heart, leaving behind all earthly desire for his sake so that, rather than pursuing your own good, you build up your brothers and sisters by the way you live, as did the patron saint of the diocesan clergy of Spain, St John of Avila. Moved by his example, look above all to the Virgin Mary, Mother of Priests. She will know how to mould your hearts according to the model of Christ, her divine Son, and she will teach you how to treasure for ever all that he gained on Calvary for the salvation of the world. Amen."</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Pope Benedict XVI; excerpts from Eucharist with Seminarians <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20110820_seminaristi-madrid_en.html">Homily</a>, August 20, 2011 ~</strong> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-42218824604838216132011-08-12T10:58:00.000-04:002011-08-12T10:58:16.595-04:00Archbishop Charles Chaput: Requirements for Real Reform in the Church<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"...Bishops, priests, and deacons are too often weak and sinful. They need to be held to high standards. Some deserve to be chastised. The clergy’s leadership in the Church should always be marked by humility and service, and never by a sense of entitlement. But men and women didn’t found the Church, they don’t own her; and they have no license to reinvent her. The Church belongs to Jesus Christ, and the different roles with the Christian community – clergy, laity, and religious life – have equal dignity but different purposes. Sin and failure, including by the clergy, need to be named. But when people deride their bishops and priests out of pride and resentment or some perverse desire for they perceive as “power,” they undermine the Church herself, and they set themselves against the God whose vessel she is. And that, as Scripture suggests, leads in a painful direction.</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"All real reform in the Church requires two things...Renewal begins not in vilifying others</strong>, <strong>but in examining ourselves honestly, repenting of our sins and changing ourselves. This applies to every baptized person, from the Pope to the average man or woman earning a wage. We are all sinners. We are all in need of repentance and God’s mercy. When we really understand that, we can speak to each other with both honesty and love, and restoring the mission of the Church can begin.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Today’s Gospel gives us the second thing needed for any lasting reform: faith. Not faith as theology, or faith as a collection of doctrines and practices; but faith as a single-minded confidence in God;</strong> <strong>faith as the humility – and in a sense, the imprudence, the passion, the recklessness – to give ourselves entirely to Jesus Christ. That kind of faith changes people. That kind of faith shifts the world on its axis, because nothing can stand against it. As long as Peter keeps his eyes and his heart fixed on Jesus Christ, he can do the impossible – he can walk on the water. The moment he gives in to doubt and fear, he begins to sink. So it is with our personal faith, and so it is with life and the health of the Church.</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"...God is calling each of us here today – clergy, lay, and religious – to love him with all our hearts and to renew the life of his Church. God is calling us now. Tomorrow will be too late. So let’s pray for each other, and support each other – and begin."</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Archbishop Charles Chaput; excerpt from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1110836290">homily ~</a></strong><a href="http://www.kofc.org/un/en/conv/2011/addresses/op_mass.html"> </a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div><strong></strong>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-26979088489962066102011-08-04T18:15:00.000-04:002011-08-04T18:15:04.468-04:00St. Jean Vianney: Role Model and Patron for all Priests<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>"Behold the power of the priest! </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The tongue of the priest makes God from a morsel of bread! </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>It is more than creating the world...</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Blessed Virgin cannot make her divine Son descend into the host.</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>A priest can, however simple he may be."</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ St. Jean Vianney ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong>John Cardinal Carberry's Prayer for Priests</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly life.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>In their loneliness, comfort them. In their sorrows, strengthen them. In their frustrations, point out to them that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show them that they are needed by the Church; they are needed by souls; they are needed for the work of redemption.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your sons who are close to you because of their priestly ordination and because of the power which they have received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs them so much. Be their comfort, be their joy, be their strength, and especially help them to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.</strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-24532336046024545702011-08-01T18:16:00.000-04:002011-08-01T18:16:43.924-04:00Venerable Fr. Nelson Baker: "The Amazing Good That One Priest Can Do"<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"While the Church has not yet officially declared him a saint, most people in Buffalo, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, through the years have always spoken of Father Baker as a saint. The institutions that he founded continue to serve people today. The infant home now cares for severely handicapped children. Young people in need of supervision are helped at Baker Hall. The hospital has been reborn as an institution that cares for the aging. The parish remains active with about 2000 families and a large parochial school. Pilgrims still come in even greater numbers than before. They do so to pay tribute to Our Lady of Victory, but also to honor Father Baker."</b><br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"I also marveled at the amazing good that one priest can do. I thought of the fine work of our priests here at home in the Diocese of Syracuse — who on a day-to-day basis serve the needs of our people in parishes and institutions. They do so, perhaps not in the extraordinary manner of Father Baker, but nevertheless in a very real and personal way. They serve faithfully the needs of God’s people and respond to God’s call to holiness of life."</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Father Baker’s favorite prayer:</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>O Victorious Lady! Thou who has such powerful influence with Thy Divine Son, in conquering the hardest of hearts, intercede for those for whom we pray, that their hearts being softened by the rays of Divine Grace, they may return to the unity of the true faith, through Christ our Lord. Amen.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Prayer for the canonization of Father Baker:</strong></div><br />
<strong>Lord you gave us Your servant Nelson Baker as an example of service to the poor, homeless, and young. By Father Baker's ardent concern for those in need, inflame our hearts and lives with compassion for the poor, justice for the oppressed, hope for the troubled, and courage to those in doubt. We pray through the intercession of Our Lady of Victory, if it be your will, that your servant, Nelson Baker, may one day be canonized. Amen.</strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">~ <strong>Excerpts from <a href="http://thecatholicsun.com/bishops-column/the-venerable-father-baker">Bishop Robert Cunningham's column ~</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<strong>Previous posts about Venerable Fr. Nelson Baker:</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ <a href="http://eucharisticadorationforpriests.blogspot.com/2009/12/american-priest-fr-nelson-baker-apostle.html">American priest Fr. Nelson Baker, Apostle of Charity</a> ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ <a href="http://eucharisticadorationforpriests.blogspot.com/2011/01/fr-nelson-baker-declared-venerable.html">Fr. Nelson Baker Declared Venerable</a> ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-75767399287349131402011-07-22T10:03:00.002-04:002011-07-22T10:10:59.069-04:00Abp. Chaput: Priests Needed for the Ongoing Presence of Christ in the World<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"No matter how many other things bear good fruit for the Gospel in our day, there is no ongoing presence of Jesus Christ in the world without the Church; there is no Church without the Eucharist; and there is no Eucharist without the priest.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"As a result, in every generation, we always need good priests: well-formed men of hope and courage; men who love Jesus Christ, love the Church and are eager to serve God’s people. And—equally important—we need a community of believers that will encourage these men, and support them as a family in their sacrifices."</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Archbishop Charles Chaput; excerpt from <a href="http://here./">here.</a> ~</strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-72731653978909844622011-07-15T13:42:00.000-04:002011-07-15T13:42:27.900-04:00Sr. Consolata Betrone: Entrusted by Jesus to Lead Priests Back to God<div style="text-align: center;"><strong> "Jesus reveals to me the intimate sufferings of His Heart </strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>caused by the faithlessness of souls consecrated to Him."</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Sr. Consolata Betrone, Nov. 9, 1934 ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
"Humble and great, active and contemplative, serene and tormented, suffering and full of joy, Consolata led a linear life reconciling each differing thing in herself and unifying everything in the ardent love of God. Long and intensely tempted herself, she had a delicate understanding of sinners, especially for consecrated souls who had transgressed, and for their conversion she offered God all her suffering and pain and finished by offering life itself."</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<strong><div style="text-align: center;">~ From Statement introducing the beatification process of <a href="http://www.consolatabetrone-monasterosacrocuore.it/page/ar1_ing/una_vita_per_lamore.htm">Sr. Consolata Betrone</a> ~</div></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Consolata Betrone</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>(1903-1946)</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
The sacrifices and prayers of a spiritual </strong><strong>mother for priests benefit especially those </strong><strong>who have strayed or abandoned their vocations. </strong><strong>Jesus has called countless women in </strong><strong>his Church to this vocation of prayer, such </strong><strong>as Sister Consolata Betrone, a Capuchin </strong><strong>nun from Turin. Jesus said to her, “Your </strong><strong>life-long task is for your brothers. Consolata, </strong><strong>you too, shall be a good shepherdess </strong><strong>and go in search of your brothers and </strong><strong>bring them back to me.”</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
Consolata offered everything for “her </strong><strong>brother” priests and others consecrated </strong><strong>to God who were in spiritual need. While </strong><strong>working in the kitchen, she prayed continuously </strong><strong>in her heart, “Jesus, Mary, I love you, save souls!” She consciously made every little </strong><strong>service and duty into a sacrifice. Jesus said in this regard, “Your duties may be insignificant, but </strong><strong>because you bring them to me with such love, I give them immeasurable value and shower them </strong><strong>on the discontented brothers as grace for conversion.”</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
Very grave and difficult cases were often entrusted to the prayers of the convent. Consolata </strong><strong>would take the corresponding suffering upon herself. For weeks or months on end she sometimes </strong><strong>endured dryness of spirit, abandonment, meaninglessness, inner darkness, loneliness, </strong><strong>doubt, and the sinful state of the priests.</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
She once wrote to her spiritual director during these struggles, “How much the brothers cost </strong><strong>me!” Yet Jesus made her a magnificent promise, “Consolata, it is not only one brother that you will lead back to God, but all of them. I promise you, you will give me the brothers, one after </strong><strong>another.” And so it was! She brought back all of the priests entrusted to her to a fulfilling priesthood. </strong><strong>There are recorded testimonies of many of these cases. <a href="http://www.clerus.org/clerus/dati/2008-01/25-13/Adoration.pdf">(Source</a>)</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
One does not need to be a nun to offer every aspect of one’s life for the sanctification of God’s anointed ones. Anyone can pray and sacrifice for priests, which is why we began our prayer associations to allow those outside our cloister to join us in spirit before Our Lord in the Monstrance praying for His priests.</strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ From previous post: <em><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_925253305">Invitation to Join the Handmaids of the Precious Blood in Strengthening Priests</a></em></strong><em><a href="http://eucharisticadorationforpriests.blogspot.com/2011/07/invitation-to-join-handmaids-of.html"> ~</a></em></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-4600957856490757992011-07-13T11:06:00.001-04:002011-07-18T17:24:34.119-04:00Invitation to Join the Handmaids of the Precious Blood in Strengthening Priests<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>“In strengthening the priest you strengthen the whole Church....</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Strengthen the priest and you strengthen the whole foundation,</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>you strengthen everything in the Church.”</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
“He who would truly honor the priesthood must do so by helping priests. <br />
I would rather have a hand in getting one priest back to the altar of God <br />
than to write a thousand books on the priesthood, <br />
or to preach a million sermons on the glory of the priesthood, <br />
for neither the sermons nor the books <br />
can hold Christ in their hands and offer Him to the Father.” <br />
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~ Fr. Gerald Fitzgerald, s.P., </strong><strong>Founder </strong><strong>Handmaids of the Precious Blood ~</strong></div><br />
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<strong><div style="text-align: justify;">From Handmaids of the Precious Blood:</div></strong><br />
<div align="justify"><strong>Our spirit is that of unbounded love of Jesus Christ in His Priests. All that we do, in union with and in imitation of the Precious Blood, is directed so that priests be holy priests. We offer ourselves in immolation and reparation for all priests, particularly for those who have lost sight of their sublime calling, praying for the grace of their conversion. We sacrifice our lives completely for the souls of priests, mindful of the vast numbers of souls just one priest can influence in his lifetime. </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About our External Prayer Apostolates:</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Did you know that since we began the Lay Associates of the Priesthood, </strong><strong>we have registered more than 29,500 people who have adopted a particular priest to pray for? </strong><strong>But currently there are over 40,000 priests in the United States and we need more volunteers willing to pray for them. Any practicing Catholic can send us their mailing address and be assigned their own priest to pray for daily.</strong></div><br />
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<strong><div style="text-align: center;">We Invite Everyone to Join us in Strengthening the Priest</div></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>One does not need to be a nun to offer every aspect of one’s life for the sanctification of God’s anointed ones. Anyone can pray and sacrifice for priests, which is why we began our prayer associations to allow those outside our cloister to join us in spirit before Our Lord in the Monstrance praying for His priests.</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lay Associates of the Priesthood</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lay Associates of the Priesthood spiritually adopt a priest to pray for anonymously by first name. The Association of lay men and women began in February of 1971 and it has since registered well over 29,500 members. There are no meetings, fees, or dues. Just daily prayer for a specific priest.</strong> </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Confraternity of Mary, Mother of Priests</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>The Confraternity of Mary, Mother of Priests welcomes priests, religious, and deacons to also spiritually adopt their own priests. The Confraternity is structured similarly to the Lay Associates: no meetings, fees or dues. Just daily prayer for a specific priest.</strong></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Oblates of the Precious Blood</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Begun under the guidance of the Servant of God Father John A. Hardon, S.J. on the Feast of Corpus Christi, June 21, 1981, the Oblates of the Precious Blood program was founded to allow priests, religious, deacons, and laity to more closely affiliate themselves with the mission and spirit of the Handmaids of the Precious Blood. Oblates of the Precious Blood bind themselves to our apostolate of prayer and sacrifice for priests by willingly committing themselves to lives completely dedicated to God, doing everything out of love for God and for the sanctification of priests. From their homes, their families, their work, their rectories, their dioceses, their missions, their hermitages, and their cloisters they reach out spiritually to priest souls in need, offering every joy and sorrow, all pain and suffering to God in love on behalf of priests. They dedicate themselves to learning the spirituality of our Founder, Father Gerald Fitzgerald, s.P. and give themselves in a lifelong resolution to live for God alone. Candidates undergo a formation period by correspondence conducted from our Motherhouse in New Mexico before making a private Solemn Resolution of Love. The Oblates are not a third order and members of third orders may apply for candidacy. World wide, there are at present over 420 Oblates of the Precious Blood.</strong> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ For more information, go the the <a href="http://nunsforpriests.org/Apostolates/prayerassociations.html">Handmaids of the Precious Blood</a> website ~</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-63532718189755277522011-07-12T19:19:00.000-04:002011-07-12T19:19:40.743-04:00St. Catherine of Siena: Priests Are the Anointed of the Lord<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"Take caution to see priests only as the dispensers of the Blood of the humble, Immaculate Lamb and overlook the faults you may see in them. A priest is a man and therefore fallible and capable of making mistakes, but this does not prevent him from being the Anointed of the Lord, marked forever with the indelible sign and having the power to consecrate the Body of Christ and administer the sacraments and to preach to the people in the name of God." </strong></div><br />
<strong><div style="text-align: center;">~ St. Catherine of Siena ~</div></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2560971495784032425.post-76452508009635172712011-06-29T11:33:00.002-04:002011-06-30T06:15:07.324-04:00Pope Benedict XVI: Recollections of 60 Years of Priestly Ministry<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>"He grants me the almost frightening faculty to do what only he, the Son of God, can legitimately say and do: I forgive you your sins. He wants me – with his authority – to be able to speak, in his name (“I” forgive), words that are not merely words, but an action, changing something at the deepest level of being. I know that behind these words lies his suffering for us and on account of us. I know that forgiveness comes at a price: in his Passion he went deep down into the sordid darkness of our sins. He went down into the night of our guilt, for only thus can it be transformed. And by giving me authority to forgive sins, he lets me look down into the abyss of man, into the immensity of his suffering for us men, and this enables me to sense the immensity of his love. He confides in me: “No longer servants, but friends”. He entrusts to me the words of consecration in the Eucharist. He trusts me to proclaim his word, to explain it aright and to bring it to the people of today. He entrusts himself to me. “You are no longer servants, but friends”: these words bring great inner joy, but at the same time, they are so awe-inspiring that one can feel daunted as the decades go by amid so many experiences of one’s own frailty and his inexhaustible goodness."</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br />
"Sixty years of priestly ministry – dear friends, perhaps I have spoken for too long about this. But I felt prompted at this moment to look back upon the things that have left their mark on the last six decades. I felt prompted to address to you, to all priests and bishops and to the faithful of the Church, a word of hope and encouragement; a word that has matured in long experience of how good the Lord is. Above all, though, it is a time of thanksgiving: thanks to the Lord for the friendship that he has bestowed upon me and that he wishes to bestow upon us all. Thanks to the people who have formed and accompanied me. And all this includes the prayer that the Lord will one day welcome us in his goodness and invite us to contemplate</strong> <strong>his joy."</strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ Pope Benedict XVI; excerpts from <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2011/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20110629_pallio_en.html">Homily 6/29/11</a> ~</strong></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Mother of all priests and our Mother, help us respond generously to the Holy Spirit's request, through the voice of His Church, to offer up to God Eucharistic adoration for priests. Amen.</span></em></strong></div>one grateful hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07451863159393669066noreply@blogger.com0