PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTS

 

                                                      Elizabeth Wang (d. 2016)

Living on a small island, with a ferry service that is most problematic in these post-covid times, we are grateful for the (almost) daily Mass. Our two priests priests, who alternate weeks, come at great cost, getting up before dawn to catch the first boat,  often  wondering when they will return home.

St. John Paul II gave a speech to priests in the United States in 1979, in which he made an appeal to the local Catholic population to pray for priests:

“At times we hear the words, “Pray for priests.” And today I address these words as an appeal, as a plea, to all the faithful of the Church in the United States. Pray for priests, so that each and every one of them will repeatedly say yes to the call he has received, remain constant in preaching the Gospel message, and be faithful forever as the companion of our Lord Jesus Christ.”