**We are very spoiled. If you want more priests, pray for holy vocations.**
I have heard it said that the vocations come to those churches with 24/7 Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.
Another thing -- have all of you heard of the Serra Club?
We are just getting a chapter going at our church. This group meets to pray and to promote vocations to the diaconate, priesthood and religious life. Something for all of us to check out.
Father John Corapi, in what might be his last recorded series (he hinted he would retire from lecturing ministry) was plain when he said the attack on the priesthood was demonic and aimed to deny the laity of the Bread of Life. He was clear about this. The attack had many prongs and included the recruitment of unfit priests and Bishops but the net result was to deprive us of the Eucharist. Only a priest can confect the Holy Eucharist and to deny this to the Church is to try to kill the life source. The idea of traveling priests, confecting the Eucharist in "traveling salvation shows" and handing it over to the laity is one especially demonic tongue in cheek. I say, bring on the foreign priests! We had Irish nuns who evangelized children for over 150 years. Let them come from every corner of the earth to now evangelize us again! We are the products in this country of all of God's "huddled masses" who sought freedom of religion.
F