Special Eucharistic Holy Hour for Vocations with St. Junipero Serra Relic Visit

The following is from the Diocese of Honolulu:

Wednesday, July 6, 2016
5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Please join us at the Co-Cathedral of St. Theresa (Honolulu) for this special Eucharistic Holy Hour for Vocations and Public Veneration of the relic of St. Junipero Serra. Bishop Larry Silva will preside the Eucharistic Holy Hour. See attached flyer for information on the visit and sequence of events. Please help us promote this event in your parishes. Feel free to print the flyer and include it in your bulletin and/or church boards.

St. Junipero’s feast day is on July 1st. He is considered the “Patron of Vocations.” He was canonized by Pope Francis on September 23, 2015 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.

For more information contact the Office of Worship at 808-585-3342.

More details can be found at Hawaii Catholic Herald

Prayers for Vocations

USCCB has more than forty prayers for vocations. They can be prayed as a community or individually. Check it out. Here's a portion of prayer #40.

"Raise up people in religious life who by their unusual witness to the Gospel will call us to the love of God and neighbor. 

You have enfolded the smallness of our humanity in your divinity. Fill us all with your Holy Spirit. Amen."

Prayer for Vocations

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Gracious God,

Your Son Jesus

told us to ask You to send laborers into

Your harvest.  

Confident in Your love,

we ask you to bless Your Church

with priests and religious who are

committed to making Your love

present wherever they are.

We pray for all those who are

seeking to know what You ask of them.

Give them the light and the courage they

need to know and follow Your will.

For our part, we pledge to be supportive

of those we know and those in our families who seek to follow You in

a priestly or religous vocation.

Hear our prayer which we offer to You in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Priests of the Sacred Heart

Good Shepherd Sunday

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A Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood

Lord Jesus Christ, Shepherd of souls,
who called the apostles to be fishers of
men, raise up new apostles in your holy
Church. Teach them that to serve you is
to reign: to possess you is to possess all
things. Kindle in the hearts of our people
the fire of zeal for souls. Make them
eager to spread your Kingdom upon
earth. Grant them courage to follow
you, who are the Way, the Truth, and
the Life; who lives and reigns for ever
and ever. Amen



"We adore You, Jesus,
eternal Shepherd of the human race.
You are present in the Eucharist
to dwell continually
in the midst of Your people.
You nourish us,
You guard us,
You guide us to the heavenly fold."

Ven. James Alberione

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Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for the Month of April

Pope Benedict's Vocation Prayer

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O Father, raise up among Christians numerous and holy vocations to the priesthood, to keep the faith alive and guard the gracious memory of your Son Jesus through the preaching of his word and the administration of the Sacraments, with which you continually renew your faithful.

Give us holy ministers of your altar, who are careful and fervent guardians of the Eucharist, the sacrament of the supreme gift of Christ for the redemption of the world.

Call ministers of your mercy,who, through the sacrament of Reconciliation, spread the joy of your forgiveness.

Grant, O Father, that the Church may welcome with joy numerous inspirations of the Spirit of your Son and, docile to His teachings, may she care for vocations to the ministerial priesthood and to the consecrated life.

Sustain the Bishops, priests and deacons, consecrated men and women, and all the baptized in Christ, so that they may faithfully fulfill their mission at the service of the Gospel. This we pray You through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Mary, Queen of Apostles, pray for us.

Mahalo Padre Steve!

Number of catholics and priests are on the rise

Please continue to pray for our seminarians, priests and bishops!

Vocation Awareness -- Quote of the Day

Saint Damien of Moloka'i

Leper Priest of Hawai'i

Statue at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki

"Each person must discover his or her own personal vocation and respond to it with generosity.”
— Pope John Paul II

EWTN - Family Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood

Celebrating St. John Vianney, a Priest

St. John Mary Vianney

St. John Mary Vianney was born in Lyons in 1786. He was an ordinary man with an extraordinary calling. Unwilling to yield to God's call because of numerous trials and challenges he was faced with, God persisted to prod him to get him to finally give his fiat. With God's grace he became a priest, and was entrusted with a parish in the town of Ars in the Diocese of Belley. He cared for the people in his parish in many a marvelous way by his preaching, his mortification, prayer, and good works. He became a renowed priest so much so that people from many regions came to Ars seeking his counsels. He died in 1859.

Today we pray to Our Most High Priest Jesus Christ, with the intercession of St. John Mary Vianney, to bless all our priests, especially those in our respective dioceses. May God bless each one of them, fill them with his strength and wisdom that in their times of trials and challenges, they many never give up but be inspired to be the priest God calls them to be. We pray for our seminarians that they will continue to persevere in their studies. We ask this of the Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Pope calls on the Legionaries of Christ...

Prayer Before the Blessed Sacrament for Vocations

O God, Our Father, You have called us in Baptism, to follow Your Son through lives of living service to You and to one another.

Grant us Your assistance as we seek to live out our vocation in life. We pray especially for those who have answered Your call as priests, brothers, sisters, and deacons.

Keep them faithful in following Your Son, and dedicated in serving You, in their brothers and sisters.

Grant that many more men and women will be open to the challenge of dedicating their lives in the ministry of building Your Kingdom.

Jesus, High priest and Redeemer, we ask You to call men and women to Your service as priests and religious. May they be inspired by the lives of dedicated priests, brothers and sisters.

Holy Spirit, give to parents the grace of generosity and trust toward You and their Child, so that their sons and daughters may be helped to choose their vocation in life with wisdom and freedom.

We ask all of this through Christ, Our Lord.
AMEN

Thanks to Sue of Half the Kingdom