In keeping with the Order’s longstanding “In Solidarity With Our Priests” campaign, the Supreme Knight has called upon all Knights to actively participate in the “Year for Priests” declared by Pope Benedict XVI. The centerpiece of the Order’s program for this year long celebration (June 19, 2009 – June 19, 2010) is a new holy card featuring a prayer for priests. The card features an icon, written by Marek Czarnecki (www.seraphicrestorations.com ), showing Christ in Mass vestments with a gold pelican over his heart, the ancient symbol of self-sacrifice. At the bottom of the icon is an altar prepared for Mass, and at the sides are Melchizedek, whose sacrifice of bread and wine prefigured the Eucharist, and St. John Vianney the patron of parish priests. The back of the card includes a prayer for priests.
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Check out the musical tribute “Our Priests” at ourpriests.com. Song is English and Spanish. http://www.ourpriests.com/
Wonderful witness, sometimes it takes others to see what our potential might be. Fr. Batulica had other plans and becoming a priest wasn’t what he thought he would become. Only through the encouragement of others during his long journey that he ultimatelycame to the realization that God was in fact calling him to the priesthood.
Despite these plans, something resonated with the Rev. Bartulica when a fellow Knights of Columbus member happened to ask him if he’d ever thought of being a priest.
This uncertainty caused him to turn back twice — once after his first semester of seminary, as he questioned his ability to live a celibate life, and another time after he’d graduated and was serving a pastoral internship. The first time, he spent a year teaching at a parish school. The second, he worked at a bar in Kansas City’s Westport district and then decided to go to law school, after all, but didn’t find a strong sense of purpose in it.
Read the entire article here. Sometimes all it takes is someone asking the question “Would you consider . . . ” and let God do the rest.
Prayer for Vocations
Lord, You told us that “The harvest indeed is great but the laborers are few. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His harvest.” We ask You to strengthen us as we follow the vocation to which You have called us. We pray particularly for those called to serve as priests, sisters, brothers and deacons:
Those whom You have called,
Those You are calling now,
Those You will call in the future.
May they be open and responsive to the call of serving Your people. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Here is something you don’t see everyday! The Deacon’s Bench posted this artical about a Kentucky Baptist Minister converting to Catholicism and becoming a priest -a married priest at that! How great is this!
David Harris never considered his conversion to Catholicism six years ago to be a rejection of the Baptist faith that nourished him from childhood in Eastern Kentucky.
But as a married man, Harris did think the switch meant he would leave one thing behind — his status as an ordained minister.
He was wrong.
Early next month, he’ll make history as the first married, former Baptist minister to become a Roman Catholic priest in the United States.
He’ll also be only the second married man from any former denomination to become a priest in the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Harris, 53, is scheduled to be ordained Sept. 6 at the Cathedral of the Assumption
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