Posts Tagged ‘priestly vocation’

Vocations Sunday – as we ask synodal questions

Monday, May 2nd, 2022
shaping the assembly

Sunday – 8 May – is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, and we treat it as Vocations Sunday. Traditionally (i.e. for the last 50 years) we have presented it as a time to talk about the need for more young (and not so young) men to think of going into a seminary and preparing for Read more

Parents urged not to block a priestly vocation

Friday, June 29th, 2012

Parents should take care not to block their son’s calling to the priesthood, new Vatican guidelines on promoting vocations say. “Even though a sense of respect for the figure of the priest is cultivated in Christian families, it is still noticeable, especially in the West, that they have a certain difficulty in accepting that their Read more