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Boston Pilot features Serrans Mary and Francis Jesch

December 5th, 2009

Boston Serrans Francis and Mary Jesch recently appeared as the featured couple in the Boston Pilot’s “Living the Faith” column. This is a well-deserved honor, and Serra Boston wishes to congratulate Francis and Mary on this accolade!

The Boston Pilot reports:

As Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley often says: “Vocations are everybody’s business.” At St. Bridget Parish in Framingham, Francis and Mary Jesch have taken that call to heart. Four years ago, the couple became the parish’s Vocation Awareness Program coordinators.

In order to create a community of people all praying for an increase in vocations, the Jesches have set up posters inviting everyone to pray for vocations. The parish has also recently celebrated Priesthood Appreciation Sunday, where parishioners were given prayer cards and spiritual bouquets for the Year for Priests.

Read the full article, which contains several other ideas for promoting the priesthood, at: Boston Pilot: Living the Faith: Francis and Mary Jesch

Everyone at the Serra Club of Boston is very proud of Mary and Francis, and grateful to all they do for the club and to promote vocations in the Archdiocese of Boston.

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U.S. Bishops name new leader for Vocations Secretariat

September 21st, 2009

ZENIT reports that the U.S. Bishops have named Fr. Shawn McKnight of Wichita, Kansas to lead its Secretariat for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations”

“Father McKnight brings extraordinary background to the position,” Monsignor David Malloy, general-secretary of the episcopal conference, said. “In addition to parish work, his experience includes years in seminary formation, education of deacons, college chaplaincy and membership on his diocesan presbyteral council. I am grateful that Bishop Michael Jackels of Wichita is permitting him to serve the U.S. bishops in this national position.”

Read the full press release at: ZENIT – US Bishops Name Leader for Vocations Secretariat

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Blessed Junipero Serra needs one more miracle for canonization

August 30th, 2009

The LA Times recently printed an article on the need for a second official miracle to be attributed to Bl. Junipero Serra before being canonized.  One possibility is a 66-year-old Panamanian artist who is still alive after losing a third of her skull to 14 surgeries for a brain tumor.

You can read the full text of the August 28, 2009 article here: LA Times: Junipero Serra needs just one more miracle

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Gift & Mystery: Providence Vocations director talks on the priesthood

August 23rd, 2009

Fr. Michael Najim has a number of talks on the priesthood available online. Those who attended the Chartering Celebration will recognize Fr. Michael Najim as the Vocations Director for the Diocese of Providence, who joined us that night.

Listen to the talks online at: Fr. Michael Najim: Gift & Mystery

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Increased enrollment at St. John’s Seminary

December 16th, 2008

The Boston Globe reports on an increase in enrollment at St. John’s Seminary:

Enrollment at St. John’s Seminary has doubled over the last two years, a stunning turnabout for an institution that seemed to be spiraling toward closure in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

The stone hall in Brighton, where two generations ago hundreds of young men prepared for the priesthood, is still strikingly quiet, but the pews of the Romanesque chapel are now about one-third full, as fresh-faced young men from around the world help to revive a 125-year-old institution that teetered on the brink of extinction just a few years ago.

The article discusses several strategic decisions made by Cardinal Sean O’Malley to improve the image of the seminary.

Full article at: Stunning turnaround for St. John’s Seminary

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