As we celebrate All Souls Day at the beginning of Vocation Awareness Week we remember those who have died. Let us pray that many young men follow in the footsteps of these two great servants of God… Fr. Alex Affonso (+2013) and Fr. Mark Catalana(+2013). Pray for vocations.

 

VOCATIONS Awareness Week

We owe ourselves and all we have to the Church; may we work each day only in her name and by her authority and may we properly carry out the duties committed to us, and may we be joined together in fraternal unity and thus strive to serve her in that perfect way in which she ought to be served. (Pope St. John XXIII)

Continue to pray for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated religious life that young people ask the question and seek to hear the voice of our Lord calling them to serve him.

St. John XXIII pray for us.

Ps. the name of the future Catholic High School in Morgan HIll. St John XXIII College Prep

 

Misioneras Eucarísticas de la Santísima Trinidad(MESST) These wonderful and holy women have been serving in the Diocese of San Jose for the last 50 years. Caring for our brothers and sisters in proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. For the 10 years of my priesthood I have been honored to celebrate Mass weekly with them at the MESST convent sharing the Eucharist, the breakfast table and experiencing the Sisters great humor and patience in helping me to learn and improve my Spanish. I am always humbled by their generosity and dedication to our Catholic Church. Thank you, Sr. Sylvia, Sr. Virginia and Sr. Graciela
Pray for Vocations….

 

“In calling you God says to you: ‘You are important to me, I love you, I am counting on you’. Jesus says this to each one of us! Joy is born from that! The joy of the moment in which Jesus looked at me. Understanding and hearing this is the secret of our joy. Feeling loved by God, feeling that for him we are not numbers but people; and we know that it is he who is calling us.” (Pope Francis from his letter to men and women in consecrated life)

Let us pray for vocations to the consecrated religious life

 

This is precisely what we mean when we call the ordination of priests a sacrament: ordination is not about the development of one’s own powers and gifts. It is not the appointment of a man as a functionary because he is especially good at it, or because it suits him or simply because it strikes him as a good way to earn his bread; it is not a question of a job in which someone secures his own livelihood by his own abilities…Sacrament means: I give what I myself cannot give; I do something that is not my work; I am on a mission and have become the bearer of that which another has committed to my charge…One can receive what is God’s only from the sacrament, by entering into the mission that makes me the messenger and instrument of another. (from Called to Communion by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger [Benedict XVI])
Pray for Vocations