Appears our prayers have been answered

[Phemie]

The administrator announced at Mass this morning that a Pastor has been found for our parish! Thank you, God! After a year without a pastor it will be good to have someone in charge again.

It will be the first time in its 54 year history that our parish will be served by a diocesan priest rather than an Oblate of Mary Immaculate. The Oblate Province couldn’t find someone to come here, so opted not to renew their contract.

The name will be announced in mid-July and he should be in place by the first Sunday in August. The admin, who knows who but can’t tell, said he thinks we’ll be quite pleased with the choice. It won’t take much to make ME happy: “Say the black, do the red.”

 

[englishredrose]

Good isn’t it.

We’ve had our new priest since last July having been in interrugnum for over a year through sad circumstances. But the one thing we are used to in our parish is a non resident priest as we don’t seem to keep priests for long. But it does make a difference doesn’t it. I can imagine your parish is celebrating now. Well done

 

[YoungTradCath]

I hope he is:

-an excellent homilist
-an excellent and unashamed catechist
-and a wonderful celebrant who painfully strives through the liturgical deserts we are in to bring lavish oasis and celebrate the most beautiful liturgy possible.

 

[PacoG]

The administrator announced at Mass this morning that a Pastor has been found for our parish! Thank you, God! After a year without a pastor it will be good to have someone in charge again.

It will be the first time in its 54 year history that our parish will be served by a diocesan priest rather than an Oblate of Mary Immaculate. The Oblate Province couldn’t find someone to come here, so opted not to renew their contract.

The OMIs have been hard by the priest shortage. A couple of years ago, they ordained only one priest in the entire United States. In our diocese, Brownsville in Texas, they had a hand in founding about 80 percent of the churches in the diocese. Now they are down to having six priests in five parishes. They abandoned two other parishes in the last four years because of the shortage of manpower.

 

[Mrs_Sally]

Phemie, wonderful news! I’ll be praying for him and for yuor whole parish during this transition. Let us know how things go.

 

[Phemie]

The OMIs have been hard by the priest shortage. A couple of years ago, they ordained only one priest in the entire United States. In our diocese, Brownsville in Texas, they had a hand in founding about 80 percent of the churches in the diocese. Now they are down to having six priests in five parishes. They abandoned two other parishes in the last four years because of the shortage of manpower.

There are 3 Oblate Provinces in Canada: Lacombe (the English one) which is the result of the amalgamation of 5 English Provinces; Assumption (the Polish one); and Notre-Dame-du-Cap (the French one).

It appears that Assumption is the only one ordaining several priests a year but I know that in some cases these are seminarians who have trained in Poland and arrive in Canada as transitional deacons and then are ordained here.

Lacombe now sees itself with a rapidly aging population. The youngest is in his early 40s and those that age are few and far between.

 

[TrueLight]

The administrator announced at Mass this morning that a Pastor has been found for our parish! Thank you, God! After a year without a pastor it will be good to have someone in charge again.

It will be the first time in its 54 year history that our parish will be served by a diocesan priest rather than an Oblate of Mary Immaculate. The Oblate Province couldn’t find someone to come here, so opted not to renew their contract.

The name will be announced in mid-July and he should be in place by the first Sunday in August. The admin, who knows who but can’t tell, said he thinks we’ll be quite pleased with the choice. It won’t take much to make ME happy: “Say the black, do the red.”

That is awesome!

 

[SMHW]

Thank you for reminding us how blessed we are to have priests at all.

 

[PacoG]

There are 3 Oblate Provinces in Canada: Lacombe (the English one) which is the result of the amalgamation of 5 English Provinces; Assumption (the Polish one); and Notre-Dame-du-Cap (the French one).

It appears that Assumption is the only one ordaining several priests a year but I know that in some cases these are seminarians who have trained in Poland and arrive in Canada as transitional deacons and then are ordained here.

Lacombe now sees itself with a rapidly aging population. The youngest is in his early 40s and those that age are few and far between.

These are statistics in The Valley Catholic, Diocesean Newspaper of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, June 2012: “There are only 320 priests in the United States Province, 205 of which are over 70 years old…Seventy-four Oblates are between 50 and 70 years of age and 41 Oblates are under the age of 50, including the seminarians in vows.”

It’s sad because the OMIs missionized Texas. Most of the Churches down here were founded by them. We are watching an order die off in the United States.

 

[jilly4ski]

The administrator announced at Mass this morning that a Pastor has been found for our parish! Thank you, God! After a year without a pastor it will be good to have someone in charge again.

It will be the first time in its 54 year history that our parish will be served by a diocesan priest rather than an Oblate of Mary Immaculate. The Oblate Province couldn’t find someone to come here, so opted not to renew their contract.

The name will be announced in mid-July and he should be in place by the first Sunday in August. The admin, who knows who but can’t tell, said he thinks we’ll be quite pleased with the choice. It won’t take much to make ME happy: “Say the black, do the red.”

Congrats Phemie!!! The parish that we are (in the process of) joining is getting our new priest soon too. The previous pastor was moved suddenly to a new parish (we think to help the school get back on track as that is what he did in this parish), so we have had a parish administrator (very good priest) but are supposed to watch for an announcement in the diocesen newspaper soon.

 

[Rand_Al_Thor]

What a blessing! We are also getting a new pastor starting in July. Our current pastor is over 80. I’m not sure if he’s actually retiring yet (he’s a Jesuit, so he’s served past the normal retirement age), but he’s moving on somewhere else. Our new pastor is a younger priest who was just ordained 2 years ago. I’ve heard good things about him, though I have yet to meet him.