The pope has declared June 19, 2009-June 10, 2009, as the Year of the Priest, and has made St. John Vianney the universal patron of priests. In our modern society, being a priest is difficult (it has never been necessarily easy), and I think it is important to recognize those who serve us and the Church.
There are educational and prayer materials at the link I provided above, but I also want to highlight the U.S. Bishops’ Meet Our Priests Class of 2009 Page, which has a lot of information on those being ordained in 2009. There really are a lot of good things happening in our Church, and this is one of them.
Saint John Vianney, pray for us, and for our priests!
David Bennett
Jennifer
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Fr. J.
Chad T.
Jorge Flores
Jonathan B
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Jason S
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Dave Hartline
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