Show Your Appreciation For A Priest

[Seamus_L]

I’ll start by naming my good friend Father John Frawley of St Thomas More parish in Chicago. Father Frawley is 89 yrs old, was ordained in 1944, still drives, and says Mass everyday, including the Tridentine Mass on Sundays. Father Frawley is one of the kindest hearted people I’ve ever known, and he has the unique distinction of having been with a very large number of people both young and old as they departed this world.

 

[Volodymyr_988]

Monsignor Harry Jerome married my wife and I. He also received her into the Church the week before our wedding- what is it, almost 8 years ago now! He is the only priest who offers the EF in the deep south of Illinois.

 

[Eucharisted]

Father John Bosco (now a saint).

Encourage your priests and pray for them

 

[r4j]

My local pastor Fr. William Schmidt. Boy has he had a lot to deal with and is he attacked at times from so many sides. And I almost fell into it. Thank God for the wisdom to step back and refrain from judging another.
Also like to mention a most beautiful priest Fr. Martin Hyatt who exudes the Holy Spirit and has been a beacon of Christ to so many.
And lastly, Fr. Corapi, who has been an integral teacher in the development of my faith.
Thank God for sending us priests and may God bless these and all priests around the world.

 

[littletherese3]

Three priests in my parish- Fr. Antony (for his encouraging relationships with young people), Fr. Rafael Cabezon (for being so funny and easy to talk to), Fr. David Halstead (for his enthusiasm and humour)
Former Parish Priest- Fr. Aquinas McCombe (for being very, very clever and interesting to talk to)
Another- Fr. John Ryan, (for his simple and inspiring homilies)

I LOVE OUR PRIESTS! PRAY FOR THEM EVERY DAY…

**Keep them; I pray Thee, dearest Lord.
Keep them, for they are Thine
The priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.

Keep them, for they are in the world,
Though from the world apart.
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure –
Shelter them in Thy heart.

Keep them and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.

Keep them and remember, Lord,
they have no one but Thee.
Yet, they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.

Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.**

 

[ericka1701]

Fr. Joe Campbell… one of the most joyful people (priest and laity included) I have EVER met. I LOVE hearing his laugh, even when it’s so loud and boistrous that it rattles my eardrums… A great witness for my own falling down and getting back up, because he was absent from church as a whole for 20+ years, and yet came back and later became a priest. He is my parish priest, and did a great job of introducing me to Catholicism.

Fr. John Orr… he celebrates the EF of Mass, and is very traditional, and is starting to help me realize my own traditionalism and challenges everyone (including me) to grow in the faith. Very subtle and dry sense of humor, and usually it’s with one of these jokes that can really send my thoughts reeling (at first, it doesn’t seem to apply and will confuddle me, but usually later something he said will come up and I’ll have an “Ah ha!” moment).

There are so many other great priests out there. I recently met one that is from Africa… not sure of the country, but from the accent, I think it’s one of the Francophone countries. I know of quite a few more “international” priests, and I can’t stop hearing good things about them. Where from home or abroad, these men of God do great and wonderful things, see (and hear) the worst of society, and still manage to do so with a smile on their faces and the love of God in their hearts. God bless them all!

Ericka

 

[Angel_Bradford]

Fr. Michael Lubinsky - Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Augusta, Georgia.

Fr. Ray Levreault - St. Teresa’s Church, Albany, Georgia.

 

[puzzleannie]

Fr. Walsh, pastor where our kids grew up and went to school, had appearance and reputation of being rather cold and distant, very correct and orthodox, but not forthcoming. he gave parent prep classes for 1st communion, and I learned more from him than I had in Catholic high school. found out while working with a city agency he spent a great deal of time and money helping poor, homelesss, getting community outreach started and functioning, and direct care for individual families in crisis. No one in the parish ever knew about this side of him, as he did not want his efforts publicized, but most of the good done in our section of the urban ghetto was at his instigation and with his support.