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Holy Orders
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"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men." (Matt 4:19)
Sign up for our Vocation Cup!
Our parish has embarked on a commitment to praying together for an increase in vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life. One aspect is for a family to pray together for this intention each day for a week. That family will have a Vocation Cup with prayers for vocations. The Vocation Cup will be passed from one family to another so that a family from our parish will be praying for vocations each day.
The week will begin on Sunday and the Vocation Cup will be returned to the sacristy in church by 10:00am the following Sunday for the next family. Please use the Signup Genius below. You may also call the rectory to choose a week. Let us pray together that those being called will respond to God’s invitation!
Click to Sign Up for Vocation Cup
Use the prayer pamphlet below as a guide for your family prayer around the Vocation Cup.
Vocation Cup Family Prayer Pamphlet
In the Creed, we say we believe in "One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church." The Catholic Church is Apostolic because the authority that Jesus gave to His apostles has been passed down through ordination from bishop to bishop, directly from the apostles themselves.
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matt. 28: 18-20). Jesus passed on His authority to the apostles, who passed it on to their successors. St. Paul even reminded the young bishop Timothy to practice his authority well: "Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you." (1 Tim 4:14)
The priesthood and diaconate are special callings, and absolutely central to the life of the Church. The most important duty of the priest is to give us Jesus Himself in the Eucharist.
Do you think you might be called? Please speak to one of our priests or deacons. Call the rectory office at 215-822-0179. -
Seeking a Vocation - How is God calling you?
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The Saints on Holy Orders
"The priest is not a priest for himself - he is for you. After God, the priest is everything." St. John Vianney
"He made them the vicars of his love." St. Ambrose of Milan
"(You think) perhaps the sole ends of the priesthood are to say Mass, and to recite the Office, and then to live like seculars? No, the end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls." St. Alphonsus de Liguori
"The power of the priest is the power of the divine person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world." St. Bernardine of Siena
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