A MONTH OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
Between today’s ‘Good Shepherd’ Sunday and Pentecost, we are invited, as a Diocese, to come together for four weeks of prayer to the Holy Spirit, to grant us a missionary spirit through the raising up of new vocations to all walks of life in the Church, and especially to the priesthood. Please take one of the leaflets available in the pews, to read more on this call to prayer. In his message for this, the 61st, World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis says ‘Each year, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations invites us to reflect on the precious gift of the Lord’s call to each of us, as members of his faithful pilgrim people, to participate in his loving plan and to embody the beauty of the Gospel in different states of life…..Our life finds fulfilment when we discover who we are, what our gifts are, where we can make them bear fruit, and what path we can follow in order to become signs and instruments of love, generous acceptance, beauty and peace, wherever we find ourselves.’
