What Can We Do to Support Our Priests
Pray
- Pray for priests daily and especially before the Blessed Sacrament
- Pray for vocations to the Priesthood, Deaconate and Religious life. Invite men and women to consider the priesthood or religious life, simply and lovingly
Offer a Spiritual Bouquet for Your Parish Priest and Priests Throughout the World
- Make a commitment for a certain number of rosaries, chaplets, masses or hours of adoration
- A specific number of days of fasting or abstaining from some particular food or activity
- An offering of the sufferings or sacrifices you make in your daily life or work, for a particular week or month or other period of time
- An offering of the merits of a particular type of charitable or apostolic work that you perform
Read and Study
- Read about the vital role of priests in the life of the Catholic Church
- Read about priests who shaped our Church and the world
- Study the life of St. Jean-Marie Vianney, the Curé of Ars, who has been named patron saint of the world’s priests during the jubilee year
Say Thank You
- Send a priest a thank you card for his dedication, sacrifice and ministry to your faith
- Invite your priest to dinner to thank him for all he has done for you and your family
Volunteer
- Volunteer at your parish to support and encourage your parish priest
Pray For Vocations
"Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call." Pope Benedict XVI
