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It can only get better ... let's pray.


3 posted on 09/02/2006 6:52:12 AM PDT by NYer ("That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah." Hillel)
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Jesus multiplied loaves and fish to answer a need. He can do the same with holy priests!


4 posted on 09/02/2006 6:54:25 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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Father Lawrence Mierenfeld, pastor of Incarnation Catholic Church in Centerville, Ohio, a 3,800-family parish, said... "But eventually people are going to have to realize that they're going to have to drive more than five minutes to Mass, and that Mass is not going to be offered every hour on the hour."

Last week at a daily mass we had a young priest from Nigeria visiting. He was telling us that for Sunday mass people there will walk 8 or 10 hours one way just to make it to mass on Sunday.

When he was a child and decided to go to seminary, he and a neighbor also in the seminary had to wake up very early and run for more than hour to make it to daily mass in time to start the day at the seminary. He told us that seminary is overcrowded with hundreds of seminarians, but that they are very selective about who gets ordained, maybe 90% are turned away.

We are very spoiled. If you want more priests, pray for holy vocations. Have children, be open to life and God's call.

7 posted on 09/02/2006 7:13:47 AM PDT by Nihil Obstat
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