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Remember THIS the next time you approach a Catholic priest โคต
A priest is not married and will not have a family of his own.
No wife. No children.
His family is the people he serves.
He is a spiritual father, called to give his life to the Eucharist, the confessional, the sick, the dying, and all who come seeking Godโs help. And that calling does not turn off at the end of the day. It follows him everywhere.
Most priests serve a parish only for a limited time, often five to seven years, before being reassigned. Just as they begin to feel at home, they are asked to go again.
They depend heavily on volunteers, staff, and the lay faithful. They cannot always be available, even when they deeply wish to be. Many carry responsibilities that few people ever see.
When you give to the Church, that money is not a personal salary for the priest. Priests receive modest stipends to cover basic needs like food, clothing, and travel.
They do not receive paid leave. Time away is often rare and must be saved slowly or supported by the generosity of others.
While many of us have set hours and days off, priests are expected to be available day and night. A call can come at any moment. Please remember they are human too, with limits, fatigue, and frailty.
If you hear someone speaking badly about a priest, do not join in gossip. Correct it if you can, or step away from it.
Most priests carry their burdens quietly. Many walk through struggles they never speak about. They need friendship, encouragement, and care for their emotional, physical, and mental well being just like anyone else.
Imagine being called out at two or three in the morning to bring the sacraments in a dangerous areaโฆ and then still being expected to celebrate Mass just hours later.
When priests are sick or face emergencies of their own, there is often no one to replace them. Yet they continue, because souls have been entrusted to them.
Remember their birthdays and ordination anniversaries. A small gesture can mean more than you realize.
Pray for them. Speak kindly to them. Be a support.
If they stumble, do not rush to judge. Lift them up. No priest is perfect, but many are giving everything they have.
Take care of your priests.
Remember those who baptized you, absolved you, married you, anointed you, and offered Mass for your intentions.
May God bless and protect His priests through Jesus Christ, our Eternal High Priest. Amen.
๐ฌ Do you think Catholics today take priests for granted??
Let me know in the comment section.
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"When a person dies, they do not go straight to heaven, unless they are Saints on Earth. You are doing a great evil to your loved ones, if you don't pray for them. Do not say, my relative is in heaven now! No they are not. If they are Catholic and died with confession they went to Purgatory. It is your obligation to make sure that person receives the last Sacraments, and your obligation if you truly love them, to pray so they may get out of the fires of Purgatory soon. A Holy Mass once a year, it's cruel! Once a month is not any better. Think of your time, how will you like people to pray for you. Remember one second in Purgatory feels like years. Pray and say many Masses for your loved ones. No One goes to heaven not pure.
"I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and your good works. I seem to hear them crying from the depths of those fires which devour them: 'Tell our loved ones, tell our children, tell all our relatives how great the evils are which they are making us suffer. We throw ourselves at their feet to implore the help of their prayers. Ah! Tell them that since we have been separated from them, we have been here burning in the flames!'
-Saint John Vianney
The Church has always taught that nothing impure enters Heaven, and most souls must first be purified in Purgatory. When we assume the dead no longer need our prayers, we may actually be abandoning them in their suffering.
The Holy Souls in Purgatory cannot help themselves anymoreโthey depend on our prayers, sacrifices, and especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. To offer only one Mass a year, or to forget them completely, is a terrible neglect of charity toward those we claim to love.
Saint John Vianney warned that the souls in Purgatory cry out for help: they beg their families, their children, and their friends to pray for them so that they may finally enter Heaven.
If you truly love your departed family members, pray for them, offer Masses for them, and never stop remembering them.
St. John Vianney, pray for us.
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