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Angels will never recruit anybody to the religious life, but flesh and blood human beings will.

Just how do you know angels will never recruit anyone to the religious life? They seemed to be able to recruit The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.

[sinkspur]

They seemed to be able to recruit The Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.

That was a very limited engagement, seeing as how they've not made any encores.

Priests are recruited by other priests. That's how it works.

[sempertrad]

O Lord, grant us priests!

O Lord, grant us many priests!

O Lord, grant us many holy priests!

O Lord, grant us many holy religious vocations!

Thursdays are especially good and fitting to pray for all priests, priests we know living and deceased, and for vocations to the priesthood. Thursday calls to mind Holy Thursday when Our Lord instituded the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

Here's an interesting story. I don't have a link to it. It came from a SSPX chapel bulletin.

Mothers of Lu

Somewhere in northern Italy is a rural area containing the town of Lu with about four thousand residents. Families with six to ten children are the rule.

In 1881, the mothers of the families of Lu began coming together on the First Sunday of each month to assist at Holy Mass and to receive Holy Communion. What the women brought about by these spiritual exercises is expressed very beautifully in the prayer which they recited together at this Mass.

The women of Lu prayed all these years since 1881. The prayer was short yet so powerful that a flood of priestly vocations were bestowed upon the town. In fifty years, the prayers of these mothers have won at least five hundred priestly and religious vocations from out of the relatively small village. But, remember, it was only in the town of Lu that for those fifty years, the good women were assisting together at the First Sunday Mass specifically for the intention of religious vocations!

Happy, blessed Lu!

The prayers of a mother are indeed powerful when they are intended to beg heaven for priestly vocations. It almost seems that God waits upon mothers for their prayers, and then vocations bloom like flowers in May.

The prayer reads:

O God, grant that one of my sons becomes a priest! I promise to live as a good Christian woman and will lead my children to all that is good, wherewith I hope to receive the grace to be able to give to You, O God, a holy priest.