Quotations

“A vocation is the life God calls us to live, and Priesthood is one of God's unique gifts to the world.  I invite parents to encourage such generosity. I ask all of you to pray that more will respond to God’s call”.

(Bishop Willie Walsh Bishop of Killaloe)


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50th International Eucharistic Congress

National Vocations Team prepare for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress!

Preparations are well underway to have Vocations to Diocesan Priesthood very much highlighted at the forthcoming International Eucharistic Congress.  Banners, flyers, posters, displays etc are being designed as we speak to draw attention to the need for more young people to give themselves in the service of Christ through the Diocesan Priesthood.  Diocesan Priests are very much at the heart of the Church's mission of Communion.  Indeed without the priest there is not Mass, without Mass there is no Church!  The Leadership theme have taken the theme of the Eucharistic Congress and have highlighted the fact the Diocesan Priesthood is very much 'PRAYER AT THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY'.

UNIVERISTY CHURCH ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN, has been designated by the Eucharistic Congress at a Church set aside to promote Vocations to the Priesthood and religious life.  During the week of the Congress, Mass will be celebrated each day for Vocations to Priesthood.  There will be other events and prayer sessions taking place in this church.  A full list will of events will be posted on this website!

 

News

Vocations App Launched

Fr. Patrick Rushe, launched an iPhone App for Diocesan Vocations to Priesthood at the Nathional Conference for Diocesan Vocation Directors, in Naas, Co. Kildare.  The app was designed by Fr. Patrick, and developed by a company called Magic Time Apps, who are based in Dublin.

This is a new and novel approach for the current and future generations of those seeking to find information, and investigate more about the subject of Vocations to Diocesan Priesthood in Ireland.

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New Vocations App

“This App is an invitation to engage with a process of generating hope,
solidarity and healing in a society that is fractured and hurting in many ways.” – Bishop McKeown

Some will caricature this as just a churchy gimmick that will try to give the impression of modernity to something that is passé, a vain attempt to market something that belongs to yesterday. I know that, for very many young people in modern Ireland, the word ‘vocation’ is not a meaningful term and they have little idea what clergy do, other than for an hour or two on Sundays. But the social media is where young people are.

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Priesthood Sunday 2011


Today is an opportunity to highlight and promote particularly the vocation to the priesthood.


The number of priests per Catholic has declined over the past 40 years. This makes it more difficult for individual parishioners to establish a close relationship with any one particular priest. Also, priests are no longer the only ones who offer pastoral care to our people. Yet without a priest, no parish is able to be a Eucharistic community. It is important to reaffirm the importance of the priesthood of Jesus Christ and its central place in the life of our Church.

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