Letters From a Young Catholic

My reflections as a Catholic young adult passionate about the Faith, seeking to grow in knowledge and understanding of God and discerning the will of the Lord in my life.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Diocese of Tyler

I was just checking out a few diocese and archdiocese websites tonight when I came across the Diocese of Tyler, Texas. Now, I've never been to Tyler, Texas, and I don't even know where it is. In fact I've never been to Texas.

Anyways, one thing that I really found interesting about their website was a section called "Prayer Center." There they have a list of many beautiful Catholic prayers. But the really neat thing was that they have an online prayer request form, and if you submit a prayer request the screen then displays the following message:

Thank you for visiting our Prayer Center.

Your prayer request will be given to Bishop Corrado at the first opportunity.
Please be assured of His Excellency's personal prayers on your behalf.


A Bishop who is praying for the personal intentions of his flock (not to mention, anyone else who comes across this site) is a shepherd indeed. Now, I'm not saying that we should all go and inundate the poor bishop with hundreds of prayer intentions, but when I came across this I thought "this bishop really seems to care about the people of God."