Not that it isn't always good to pray for vocations ... but wouldn't it make more sense to issue this message in May?
They always issue the papal messages for "World Day Of ______" far in advance of the day.
Feb 2, 2014 — World Day for Consecrated Life
May 11, 2014 — World Day of Prayer for Vocations
Last Sunday of Oct — Priesthood Sunday
Nov 2-8, 2014 — National Vocation Awareness Week
Plan something special for your church during these special days/weeks.
Our local Serra Club, for example, did a spiritual bouquet card for our priest last year — or people could put their own cards into the basket..
“... the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which is marked on May 11.
Not that it isn’t always good to pray for vocations ... but wouldn’t it make more sense to issue this message in May?”
This Pope is like our President. He’s on stage just about every other day. Always in the headlines. No offense, but he needs to just learn his new job and stay off the podium for a while. Way too much face time, indeed. Neither Benedict nor even John Paul II sought the limelight quite as much as this Pope seems to want to do. He needs to give it a rest for a while and relax. He’ll make less verbal gaffes that way.