Pope: Priests are living witnesses of the power of God at work in our world

"The priest", says the Holy Father in his message to participants in an international spiritual retreat for priests at the French shrine of Ars for the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney, "is called to serve human beings and to give them life in God.

"... He is a man of the divine Word and of all things holy and, today more than ever, he must be a man of joy and hope. To those who cannot conceive that God is pure Love, he will affirm that life is worthy to be lived and that Christ gives it its full meaning because He loves all humankind."

Pope: Priests are Living Witnesses of the Power of God at Work in Our World - Catholic Online

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Pope Benedict XVI on the role of the priest

The shortage of priests must not come to be considered as a normal or typical state of affairs for the future, the Holy Father told a group of prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil in Vatican City last week.

In this context, he encouraged the prelates "to combine efforts to encourage new priestly vocations and find the pastors your dioceses need, helping one another so that all of you have better-trained and more numerous priests to support the life of faith and the apostolic mission".

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