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Priesthood Sunday on October 25

September 1st, 2009

Be sure your parish celebrates Priesthood Sunday on Sunday, October 25!

“Priesthood Sunday” is a day to reflect upon and affirm the role of the priesthood in the life of the Church. This annual nationwide event is coordinated and sponsored by the USA Council of Serra International. Especially during this Year of the Priest, we should all remember our priests in a special way on this day designated for doing so.

For more information and a complete Planning Guide for Priesthood Sunday, click on the link below:
http://www.priestsunday.org/pdfs/englishguide09.pdf

Honor your priest with an ad in the Boston Pilot

Our archdiocesan newspaper, The Pilot, will again this year be accepting ads honoring priests whom the faithful would like to remember on this special occasion.

For more information, contact Larry Ricardo at the Pilot by e-mail: advertising@thebostonpilot.com or call him at (617) 746-5835.

Be sure “your” priests are included in this special Pilot edition!

Posted in Support priests

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

Posted in Links

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

Posted in Links, Multimedia

Stained glass window of Blessed Junipero Serra

July 10th, 2009

This stained glass window of Blessed Junipero Serra can be found at St. Victor Church in West Hollywood, CA. Reproductions of this window were given out as gifts at the recent Serra Club of Boston chartering ceremony, along with a Serra International pin.

For a larger view of this window, please click on the image to the left.

For more photos of the stained glass windows in this church, please see www.saintvictor.org

Posted in Multimedia

Cardinal Sean blogs on Serra Chartering

July 4th, 2009

Cardinal Sean posted a blog about the recent chartering ceremony for the Serra Club of Boston:

On Friday, there was a Mass at St. John’s Seminary and a dinner to charter a new Serra Club for Boston.

We are hoping that promotion of priestly vocations and vocation recruitment will be a very important part of the Year for Priests.

Serra Club takes its name from Blessed Junipero Serra, a Franciscan priest who founded a number of California missions in the 18th century.

I have always had a special spot in my heart for them. My dad joined Serra in 1960 and was a very active member his whole life.

The first president of the Boston club is Loretta Gallagher, who worked very closely with our Director of Vocations, Father Dan Hennessey on establishing the new chapter.