tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616479968271501281.post4222384256249029839..comments2022-11-19T14:19:59.893+00:00Comments on Irish Dominican Vocations: Why consider a vocation in the midst of a crisis?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11286690147183340956noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616479968271501281.post-4081305748001837102011-08-04T14:39:25.900+01:002011-08-04T14:39:25.900+01:00Thanks Sean.....very humbling! Gerard.Thanks Sean.....very humbling! Gerard.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11286690147183340956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616479968271501281.post-54087680300345811242011-08-04T14:18:55.288+01:002011-08-04T14:18:55.288+01:00I've quoted extensively from this post in my S...I've quoted extensively from this post in my Sunday Reflections for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. You can my post here: http://bangortobobbio.blogspot.com/2011/08/come-said-jesus-sunday-reflections-19th.html and http://www.misyononline.com/misyonforum/fathersean/come-said-jesus-19th-sunday-ordinary-time-year-7-august-20114<br /><br />Many thanks and God bless you work.Fr Seán Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432610859468495578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616479968271501281.post-7128944340516776592011-07-25T12:41:08.184+01:002011-07-25T12:41:08.184+01:00During my secondary school years I belonged to a g...During my secondary school years I belonged to a group under the patronage of St Dominic Savio. It was run by a Salesian priest in England. Members got a monthly newsletter. One time I wrote him to tell him I was planning to enter the seminary. I've never forgot what he wrote me: the Church has many good priests but it needs holy priests.<br /><br />Thank you for your hope-filled post.Fr Seán Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432610859468495578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616479968271501281.post-88490305556069621282011-07-23T03:10:32.552+01:002011-07-23T03:10:32.552+01:00"And in the middle of the crisis that the chu..."And in the middle of the crisis that the church now faces, people more than any other time in history need to hear the Gospel preached."<br /><br />The seeds of the crisis were sown many decades ago beginning with false theologies spreading unimpeded by authority within the Church especially in the forties, fifties and sixties. From academia through to the parish - again relatively unimpeded. The crisis has been in Ireland since the seventies. Priests, on a great scale, failed to preach and teach and live the moral life, as Bishops failed to control what was passing as Chuch teaching within their dioceses. We desperately need priests to strive for holiness, to reverently provide the holy sacraments, particularly the ONE liturgy, and to preach the truth of the Gospel (particularly as it pertains to the now all-pervasive evils/sins of the world which we live in, to which many Catholics have beco innured for lack of moral education from our priests and Bishops). This has been the deplorable state of affairs in the Church in Ireland for some forty years. If a potential candidate for the priesthood is committed to do the above, in obedience to the Church, then he is needed urgently to save many souls which would otherwise surely be lost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com