Take the Risk for Christ
The Year for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood will run from Vocations/Good Shepherd Sunday, 30 April 2023, which also marks the 60th anniversary of the initiation of the annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations, instituted by Saint Pope Paul VI in 1963 during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. The Council for Vocations of the Bishops’ Conference has organised this year to promote vocations to the diocesan priesthood.
Speaking at a photocall in St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, Bishop Cullinan said, “A key objective of this Year of Vocations is to start conversations within families, with priests and in parish communities on the beauty of the vocation of priesthood. Feedback from newly ordained priests indicates a strong correlation between their calling and encouragement received from a priest about their ministry, in other words taking the risk for Christ.”
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Key Events for the Year
Some of the Key Events for the Year are:
Video commissioned by the National Vocations Office [email protected] and produced by the Servant Sisters of Home of the Mother can be viewed HERE