Ignatius Insight Scoop: By The Numbers | Priestly Vocations in America: Recent Trends

Ignatius Insight Scoop has a post by Carl Olson that summarizes a fascinating and yet sobering article by Jeff Ziegler on religious vocations in the United States. The post is a summary of an article from Catholic World Report which is very in-depth. In culling through the article, one paragraph jumps out and it was mentioned by several commentators on the Insight Scoop blog:

Echoing the comments of other bishops and vocation directors, Paterson's Bishop Serratelli tells CWR, "God has been good to us. In the last three years, we have earnestly begged him for an increase of vocations. We instituted a pastoral initiative in all the parishes on all vocations, with a special emphasis on priesthood and the consecrated life…We have encouraged prayer by everyone, especially prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Where Jesus is loved and adored in the Eucharist, vocations follow."
That sort of makes sense, doesn't it? If we all kneel before Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and beg him for priests, He is sure to respond I should think. After all, didn't He Himself ask His disciples to ask the Father for more laborers (Matt. 9: 37-38)?

Read the blog entry here. The article is linked to it.

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