Holy Hour for Vocations:

Published on November 19, 2019

On Sunday 24th November the Feast of Christ the King every Parish in the Diocese is being invited to hold one hour of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to pray for Vocations to Priesthood. In our own Parish the Hour of Adoration will be held on the Feast of Christ the King between 5pm and 6pm in the Parish Church. Please join us for this time of prayer as we ask the Lord to give those called the courage to respond generously & to serve God’s People through the ministry of the Ordained Priesthood.

Reflection

Jesus tells his disciples to look at him and touch him. Then he asks them for something to eat. What does Pope Francis say we can learn from these three actions of Jesus?
The second verb is to touch. By inviting the disciples to touch him, to verify that he is not a ghost—touch me!— Jesus indicates to them and to us that the relationship with him and with our brothers and sisters cannot remain “at a distance.” Christianity does not exist at a distance; Christianity does not exist only at the level of looking. Love requires looking and it also requires closeness; it requires contact, the sharing of life. The Good Samaritan did not limit himself to looking at that man whom he found half dead along the road: he stopped, he bent down, he treated his wounds, he touched him, he loaded him onto his mount and took him to the inn. And it is the same with Jesus himself: loving him means entering into a communion of life, a communion with him.
Being Christian is not first a doctrine or a moral ideal; it is a living relationship with him, with the Risen Lord: we look at him, we touch him, we are nourished by him and, transformed by his Love; we look at, touch and nourish others as brothers and sisters.
Pope Francis,