Priesthood and Vocations Week – a special week dedicated to prayer and education – kicked off at Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Bally on Sunday, May 4 at the 10:15 a.m. Mass with over 100 of the faithful in attendance.
“We need more priests,” said Father Richard James, Pastor. The parish “has a great heritage of priests who served here,” he said, referring to Father Theodore Schneider, S.J., who founded the church in 1741 and Father Augustine Bally, S.J., who served at the parish for more than 40 years in the 19th century (1837-82) and from whom the town takes its name.
Ordained in 2012, Father James said the parish “seeks to pray for future vocations, and to take care of [the priests] we have now.”
For the past year, Masses at Most Blessed Sacrament opened with a “Vocations Prayer,” asking God “to give worthy priests and religious to His Holy Church,” and to “choose from our homes those who are needed for Thy work.”
During Lent, parishioners were invited to mail cards to current priests, telling the priests that they’re remembered in parishioners’ prayers.
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Priesthood and Vocations Week – a special week dedicated to prayer and education – kicked off at Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Bally on Sunday, May 4 at the 10:15 a.m. Mass with over 100 of the faithful in attendance.
