As Archbishop of Utrecht, the Netherlands, I would like to invite you to join me on Twitter to pray for vocations to the priesthood during the Year of the Priest.
The world needs priests, and Jesus himself urges us to pray for laborers for the harvest. So Twitter your prayers for vocations, and retweet this call for prayer so your followers can join you!
Thanks, and God bless!
Archbishop Dr. W.J. Eijk (twitter.com/Eijk)
P.S.: get updates about the campaign by following twitter.com/futurepriests
Thank you very much for this beautiful of example of using technologically mediated means to pray and get through millions of us scattered around the globe.
I´m Argentinian, and my country also needs more priests and nuns to work in churches and poor neighbourhoods. I’ll try to translate all this material into Spanish to share it with my people.
May our Lord bless you all!
A PAZ!
SOU SEMINARISTA RELIGIOSO BRASILEIRO, VEJO QUE A IGREJA TEM UMA GRANDE PERSPECTIVA E NECESSIDADE DE SACERDOTES, QUE TENHAM A CONSCIÊNCIA DA MISSÃO EVANGELIZADORA E CONCRETA DO REINO.
GOSTARIA DE PODER AJUDAR A NAÇÃO HOLANDEZA, MEU PÁROCO, NA CIDADE ONDE NASCI, ERA HOLANDEZ, QUE VEIO COM O DECLÍNIO DA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL, SEMPRE O ESTIMEI COMO UM MODELO DE SACERDOTE, EMBORA FOSSE BASTANTE CONSERVADOR. NÃO FALO ALÉM DO PORTUGUÊS, MAS ME DISPONHO EM SER UM OPERÁRIO EM SUA MESSE.
EM CRISTO,
FERDINANDO MAGALHÃES
THE PEACE! I AM BRAZILIAN RELIGIOUS SEMINARISTA, I SEE THAT THE CHURCH HAS A GREAT PERSPECTIVE AND NECESSITY OF PRIESTS, WHO HAVE THE CONSCIENCE OF CONCRETE MISSION EVANGELIZADORA AND OF THE KINGDOM. IT WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO HELP NATION HOLANDEZA, MY PÁROCO, IN THE CITY WHERE I WAS BORN, IT WAS HOLANDEZ, THAT CAME WITH THE DECLINE OF WORLD WAR II, I ALWAYS ESTEEM IT AS A PRIEST MODEL, EVEN SO WAS SUFFICIENT CONSERVATIVE. I DO NOT SPEAK BEYOND THE PORTUGUESE, BUT I MAKE USE MYSELF IN BEING A LABORER IN ITS MESSE. IN CHRIST, FERDINANDO MAGALHÃES
Congratulations! Our Christian mission needs from all the means to expand, and more than ever we need good shepherds and people devoted to the cause of Godspell. This is a great initiative, and I will pray for its success. A good idea would be to translate this websito into Spanish, since a great part of the Catholic world speaks this language.
God bless you. Greetings from Spain,
Montse de Paz
A wonderful use of new technology! Someone has written that a majority of new vocations are coming via the internet because it allows discerners the space they need to gather information then reflect and pray.
I will pray for vocations – we are a group of teens who have set up our own vocations site and we are surprised by the number of seekers!
Greetings, Your Excellency!
Thank you for your initiative for priests. I am from Canada, another country that is suffering greatly from a shortage of priests. I am enthusiastic for your FuturePriests campaign – and have been paying close attention to @Eijk and @futurepriests on Twitter, as well as the #futurepriests hashtag. I am waiting, hoping, for more tweets from these two Twitter accounts… I have seen nothing since the launch of the campaign. Please tweet more! The Twitter aspect of the campaign will not succeed unless there are regular tweets that followers can retweet to spread word of the campaign.
Hoping for more futurepriests tweets soon,
CatholicNight