I am coming back to you. With your help, I will become a priest of Jesus Christ." He kept his word and became a priest, and a very good priest at that. Of course, in addition to his other prayers, he liked [...] he could hear a voice speaking straight to his heart and clearly asking him, "Would you become a priest, my child? You have been unfaithful to the call of my Son, but it is nevertheless your only vocation
April 13, 2017, on the morning of Holy Thursday, Pope Francis addressed priests: "Everything that Jesus Christ proclaims and we priests too proclaim, is good news ... The joys of the gospel are special joys [...] Virgin Mary". As in Cana, "Mary is the new wineskin brimming with contagious joy." "Without her, dear priests, we cannot move forward in our priesthood!" the pope exclaimed the Pope, departing for a moment from
Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus is the fall of religious and priestly souls. The devil knows that religious and priests who fall away from their beautiful vocation drag numerous souls to hell [...] Sister Lucia, the seer of Our Lady of Fatima (Portugal), alluding to the third secret, confided to the priest: "Only the Holy Father and the Bishop of Fatima are permitted to know the Secret, but they have chosen
Mary appeared to a priest and told him to go to the location of the hidden sacred image so that the image might be safely placed inside a Marian Church. During his journey, the priest first fell asleep [...] 1854) Our Lady of the Rule buried with a perpetually burning lamp Fr. Bernard Corpuz, MSC, the parish priest of the Nuestra Señora de Regla (Our Lady of the Rule) Parish National Shrine in Lapu-Lapu City, said [...] a certain tree, but did not burn it, indicating the place where the sacred image was buried. The priest unearthed a huge rock that was actually the opening of a cave where St Augustine’s Lady of the Rule
Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His own Heart. Pray for all the priests under Saint John Vianney’s patronage, that they may be worthy representatives
Fruitfulness Blessed Virgin, pray that God may give to His Church today many more priests after His own Heart. Pray for all the priests under Saint John Vianney's patronage, that they may be worthy representatives
have a “special relationship” with her. In a moment of spiritual aridity, a brother priest gave me some homilies by a priest from Medjugorje on the messages of the Gospa (the Virgin Mary) to read. As soon [...] Immaculate Heart of Mary, Refuge of Sinners (Paris, France) Start with the Holy Rosary I had been a priest for 4 years and I had never prayed a Rosary. I did not like it or understand it. I also had difficulty
of whom was white. They were reciting the Rosary aloud in Spanish. On spotting the priest, the child exclaimed: “A priest!” and all the others immediately turned their heads. The missionary approached and [...] 1280) Saved from shipwreck, a child evangelized pagans with the Rosary In the early 19th century, a priest entered the islands of Fernando-Po and Amban, now Equatorial Guinea. He was surprised to find a [...] it must be a long time; for the time seemed long to me, away from mom and dad.” The child led the priest to the house where he had been welcomed, and these good people received him with great respect. The
the priest heard that the young man was living in sin and sent for him: "How can you offend the good Lord so gravely after making all those promises? - It’s not my fault, Father. The young priest who replaced [...] was my condition. So I asked the young priest if she could 'cook my rice' anyway and he said yes. What are you blaming me for? - You scoundrel! The young priest didn't know the meaning behind this expression [...] the name the young man had chosen at his baptism) promised, but did not keep his promise. So the priest's threat came true: Santiago went blind again. However, he returned to Madhu, made his confession
to the priest there who has been the official exorcist for the past 15 years. This exorcist knows how to listen and empathize with people’s sorrows and struggles. "The first thing," the priest says, "is [...] recently bought a restaurant. When he heard that unexplained things were happening inside, he called a priest to ask him to "entrust the place to the Lord!" and have it exorcised. During the summer of 2020,