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Madaglan
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What other times and places have there been vocation crises in the Church?
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markadm
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I could be trite and say that there is always a crisis, “the harvest is great and the labourers are few” (Lk 10:2).The crisis can be qualitative, not just quantitative.
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BarbaraTherese
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Qualitative as well as quantative is a very good point!
Lord, please send holy priests, nuns and laypeople committed to Your Gospel as workers in Your vineyard. Guide and guard, we beg, all religious and secular leadership everywhere. Amen.
Lord, please send holy priests, nuns and laypeople committed to Your Gospel as workers in Your vineyard. Guide and guard, we beg, all religious and secular leadership everywhere. Amen.
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KCT
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What kind of vocations? Many (though not all) dioceses are having trouble, but many orders are flourishing. —KCT
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Pious_Mat
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I suppose that there was a shortage of priests during the first 300 years of Church history, as Christianity was condemned, and many priests would have martyred if they were found out.
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zagjames
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During the French Revolution and the time shortly there after there was a drop in vocations. There have also been many qualitative vocation crises. (i.e. priests like Fr. Johann Tetzel OP who believed we were saved by works alone and caused a little hubabaloo with Luther by selling indulgences to people who did not repent for their sins) thats why in the Council of Trent there was a call (really a command) for more seminaries to be built (one in every dioceses I think) so that no priest would be uneducated and thus pass on error.
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BarbaraTherese
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I am a little off the flow of this thread, I realise
…but being a woman wanted to put in my two pence worth anyway!
“And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against you”. At every time in every age The Lord is providing for His Church - we can be assured of that, which of course does not excuse us from assessings and attempting to deal with problems/seeming problems…but without a sense of desperation and total dependance on our reason and logic and human functioning. “Pray that The Lord will send labourers into His vineyard - the harvest is rich but the labourers are few”. We have the mandate from Jesus to pray for labourers to commit themselves to His vineyard and to work towards obtaining them. "Faith without works is dead"meaning “pray as if everything depended on prayer and work as if everything depended on work” Martha and Mary work as one.
God’s Blessings and His Peace…Barb
…but being a woman wanted to put in my two pence worth anyway!“And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against you”. At every time in every age The Lord is providing for His Church - we can be assured of that, which of course does not excuse us from assessings and attempting to deal with problems/seeming problems…but without a sense of desperation and total dependance on our reason and logic and human functioning. “Pray that The Lord will send labourers into His vineyard - the harvest is rich but the labourers are few”. We have the mandate from Jesus to pray for labourers to commit themselves to His vineyard and to work towards obtaining them. "Faith without works is dead"meaning “pray as if everything depended on prayer and work as if everything depended on work” Martha and Mary work as one.
God’s Blessings and His Peace…Barb
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