{"id":24228,"date":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/epiphany-novena-for-priests\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:00:00","slug":"epiphany-novena-for-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/epiphany-novena-for-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany Novena for priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/John%20Paul%20with%20BS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"309\" alt=\"John Paul with BS.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/John%20Paul%20with%20BS-thumb-250x309.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Little more than a year my friend Fr. Mark at <a href=\"http:\/\/vultus.stblogs.org\/\">Vultus Christi<\/a> initiated a plan of prayer for the priesthood, particularly in reparation for sins committed by priests. This plan of prayer was inspired by a letter from Cardinal Claudio Hummes, OFM to the world&#8217;s bishops encouraging them to designate people, including priests, whose &#8220;ministry&#8221; it would be to pray for&nbsp;the priesthood in the wake of the sex abuse crisis. The point&nbsp;of the letter was to begin to think about and work for a&nbsp;renewal of the priesthood.&nbsp;Today begins a novena inspired by Saint Peter Julian Emyard who in 1857 began his own renewal of the priesthood adoration movement. Let&#8217;s be united in <a href=\"http:\/\/vultus.stblogs.org\/2009\/01\/epiphany-novena-for-priest-ado.html\">prayer for the intentions&nbsp;of our priests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Mark has also developed a program of prayer called <a href=\"http:\/\/vultus.stblogs.org\/thursdays_of_adoration_and_rep\/\">Thursdays in Adoration and Reparation for Priests<\/a> which keeps the Holy Thursday event of Our Lord forming the priesthood and giving us the gift of His Eucharistic Presence.<\/p>\n<p>There are many opportunities to spend time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament in parishes today (more now than a few years ago). And there religious orders who make it a point to adore Christ in the Blessed Sacrament regularly, if not daily, for example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaopnuns.org\/\">Dominican nuns<\/a>&nbsp;in North Guilford, CT and Linden, VA to name two monasteries, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountgraceconvent.org\/\">pink sisters<\/a> found in cities such as Philadelphia, St. Louis, Lincoln and Corpus Christi; the monks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintvincentarchabbey.org\/\">Saint Vincent Archabbey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkabbey.org\/\">Newark Abbey<\/a> have the daily practice of adoration prior to the Divine Office, the monks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osbmonks.org\/\">Saint Mary&#8217;s Abbey<\/a>&nbsp;(Morristown, NJ) have adoration and confession on the second Friday of the month for vocations and for the priesthood, the monks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belmontabbey.org\/index.html\">Belmont Abbey<\/a> (Belmont, NC) have recently dedicated an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottediocese.org\/customers\/101092709242178\/filemanager\/CNH%20Docs\/BACChapel08.pdf\">adoration chapel<\/a> in the center of their college campus in honor of Saint Joseph where monks, students and other interested people gather&nbsp;with the Eucharistic Lord.<\/p>\n<p>What better time&nbsp;than in Epiphanytide to&nbsp;develop a habit of prayer in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little more than a year my friend Fr. Mark at Vultus Christi initiated a plan of prayer for the priesthood, particularly in reparation for sins committed by priests. This plan of prayer was inspired by a letter from Cardinal Claudio Hummes, OFM to the world&#8217;s bishops encouraging them to designate people, including priests, whose &#8220;ministry&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/epiphany-novena-for-priests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Epiphany Novena for priests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,53],"tags":[1912,1913,1902,1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}