Another Ordination
Please pray for Deacon Anthony Ho who is being ordained to the priesthood this evening (May 30th, 2006) at St. Anthony of Padua parish in Vancouver, BC.
This is a prayer to St. Joseph for his intercession for priests that I just recently discovered:
"O illustrious patriarch St. Joseph, who carried the Infant Jesus in thy blessed arms and who, during the space of thirty years, lived in the most intimate familiarity with Him, take under thy powerful protection those whom He has clothed with His authority and honored with the dignity of His priesthood, whom He has charged to continue His mission, to preach His Gosepl, and to dispense everywhere His graces and blessings. Sustain them in their fatigues and labors; console them in their pains; fortify them in their combats; but above all, keep far from them all the evils of sin.
Obtain for them the humility of St. John the Baptist, the faith of St. Peter, the zeal and charity of St. Paul, the purity of St. John and the spirit of prayer and recollection of which thou, my dear Saint, art the model, so that, after having been on earth the faithful dispensers of the Mysteries of thy Heaven receive the recompense promised to pastors according to the Heart of God. Amen."
While we're on the topic of Holy Orders, congratulations to Jonathan St. Andre of Running the race of life who was just ordained to the deaconate this past Saturday. Keep him in your prayers as well.
And since we're talking about ordinations, also pray for Deacon Scott Settimo, a friend of Fr. Stephanos from Me Monk. Me meander., who will be ordained to the priesthood tomorrow (Wednesday, May 31st) in Alaska. Apparently his ordination will bring the number of priests for the Diocese of Juneau to twelve.
There are more ordinations coming up but I'll try and make a point of posting about the upcoming ordinations the actual day they are taking place. Thanks be to God for the priesthood and for these men who have had the courage to respond to His call.
All these men have their work cut out for them so please keep them, and all deacons, priests, and bishops, in your prayers.
"O illustrious patriarch St. Joseph, who carried the Infant Jesus in thy blessed arms and who, during the space of thirty years, lived in the most intimate familiarity with Him, take under thy powerful protection those whom He has clothed with His authority and honored with the dignity of His priesthood, whom He has charged to continue His mission, to preach His Gosepl, and to dispense everywhere His graces and blessings. Sustain them in their fatigues and labors; console them in their pains; fortify them in their combats; but above all, keep far from them all the evils of sin.
Obtain for them the humility of St. John the Baptist, the faith of St. Peter, the zeal and charity of St. Paul, the purity of St. John and the spirit of prayer and recollection of which thou, my dear Saint, art the model, so that, after having been on earth the faithful dispensers of the Mysteries of thy Heaven receive the recompense promised to pastors according to the Heart of God. Amen."
While we're on the topic of Holy Orders, congratulations to Jonathan St. Andre of Running the race of life who was just ordained to the deaconate this past Saturday. Keep him in your prayers as well.
And since we're talking about ordinations, also pray for Deacon Scott Settimo, a friend of Fr. Stephanos from Me Monk. Me meander., who will be ordained to the priesthood tomorrow (Wednesday, May 31st) in Alaska. Apparently his ordination will bring the number of priests for the Diocese of Juneau to twelve.
There are more ordinations coming up but I'll try and make a point of posting about the upcoming ordinations the actual day they are taking place. Thanks be to God for the priesthood and for these men who have had the courage to respond to His call.
All these men have their work cut out for them so please keep them, and all deacons, priests, and bishops, in your prayers.
posted by DP | 12:35 AM
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