Portsmouth diocese has ‘highest number of seminarians in living memory’
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amsjj
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Prayers for these prospective priests. 
Tis_Bearself
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Wonderful news. I pray for them all as they embark on their difficult but rewarding task.
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jeannetherese
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May the Holy Spirit bless and guide these young men through their formation. May they prove a blessing to all whom they meet as seminarians and as priests.
Amen.
Amen.
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7_Sorrows
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Trishie
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Great news!
Heavenly Father, for love of Jesus, please give wisdom and unconditional love to those who respond to Your call to devote themselves to serve others. Grant them numerous occasions of grace and growth in human wholeness. Let them learn that each person is Your favorite, and that You work out our salvation within our actual selves in the ordinary framework of our lives.
Let moments of grace and trial lead them from selfishness to God’s unconditional love of others. Let doubt, boredom and difficulty trigger renewed inspiration to love You and others in realistic humility and optimism.
Help them to cope wisely with their own personality and needs in the face of weariness or stress, or in confronting others’ crises and emotional outbursts.
Help them to deal with misunderstanding, cynicism, and failure despite their careful tending and generosity. Prepare them to contend astutely with attempts to manipulate and seduce them to worldliness, error, or sin.
Habituate them to acknowledge the goodness and beauty of others while compassionately recognising flaws that may need guidance and prayer to overcome.
Grant that anyone assisting in formation of Your chosen ones will seek the Spirit’s guidance and wisdom rather than to impose their own opinions and preferences. Let Your ministers be instructed according to the correct entirety of ecclesiastical and divine revelation, receiving it with obedience, yet intelligent openness that allows questioning of those restrictions that Jesus Himself would loose. Where formation is deficient or misguided, others’ souls will also be deprived of right counsel.
Foster fraternity among Your chosen ones, our God, so that they witness the gospel love of unity and mutual service. Let no one regard their spiritual formation as complete when they are professed, ordained, or experienced, but let them seek continual conversion. Let Your love constitute their continuing formation in human wholeness and witness.
If You appear to favor those You call to priesthood more than you favor others, it is because You choose them in order more richly to serve others. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.
In calling them to serve as priests, You have entrusted to them the guidance of souls in the Truth and the Sacraments of healing and grace. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.
Heavenly Father, for love of Jesus, please give wisdom and unconditional love to those who respond to Your call to devote themselves to serve others. Grant them numerous occasions of grace and growth in human wholeness. Let them learn that each person is Your favorite, and that You work out our salvation within our actual selves in the ordinary framework of our lives.
Let moments of grace and trial lead them from selfishness to God’s unconditional love of others. Let doubt, boredom and difficulty trigger renewed inspiration to love You and others in realistic humility and optimism.
Help them to cope wisely with their own personality and needs in the face of weariness or stress, or in confronting others’ crises and emotional outbursts.
Help them to deal with misunderstanding, cynicism, and failure despite their careful tending and generosity. Prepare them to contend astutely with attempts to manipulate and seduce them to worldliness, error, or sin.
Habituate them to acknowledge the goodness and beauty of others while compassionately recognising flaws that may need guidance and prayer to overcome.
Grant that anyone assisting in formation of Your chosen ones will seek the Spirit’s guidance and wisdom rather than to impose their own opinions and preferences. Let Your ministers be instructed according to the correct entirety of ecclesiastical and divine revelation, receiving it with obedience, yet intelligent openness that allows questioning of those restrictions that Jesus Himself would loose. Where formation is deficient or misguided, others’ souls will also be deprived of right counsel.
Foster fraternity among Your chosen ones, our God, so that they witness the gospel love of unity and mutual service. Let no one regard their spiritual formation as complete when they are professed, ordained, or experienced, but let them seek continual conversion. Let Your love constitute their continuing formation in human wholeness and witness.
If You appear to favor those You call to priesthood more than you favor others, it is because You choose them in order more richly to serve others. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.
In calling them to serve as priests, You have entrusted to them the guidance of souls in the Truth and the Sacraments of healing and grace. Let them never betray this commission, or fail to revive it, but continue to grow in love and witness of Jesus to others.
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superblue
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14 out of how many applicants that were not selected and then one has to figure the probablitly of 14 seminarians either not being asked to leave, leaving on their own, and then actually completing 8 yrs of school work. I guess it is a good thing that 14 have made it through the application process and have high enough scores to enter the seminary college, but it is the numbers that actually finish that become impressive.
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