"Ask Jesus to make you a saint. After all, only He can do that. Go to confession regularly and to Communion as often as you can." ~ St. Dominic Savio #Saints #Quotes

Good Monday morning to all Priests! Good morning to all our PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED MONDAY!

Gospel Luke 4:16-30 Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go fre

"I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it." ~ Flannery O'Connor #Saints #Quotes

Jesus, St Peter, Keys With Cross Stained Glass St John's Church Scottish Episcopal Church Edinburgh Scotland, late 1800s. MASS READINGS Gospel Matthew 16:21-27 Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, "God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you." He turned and said to Pe

Good Sunday morning to all Priests! Good Sunday morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Viet Nguyen, CSsR celebrating his Birthday today! Let us pray for Fr Julio Chuquimamani Luque, OFM celebrating his Ordination Anniversary! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED S

Good Sunday morning to all Priests! Good morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Viet Nguyen, CSsR celebrating his Birthday today! Let us pray for Fr Julio Chuquimamani Luque, OFM celebrating his Ordination Anniversary today! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED SU

"Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her mission in history, an obedience in response to the command of Christ: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Mt. 28:19) and "Do this in remembrance of me" (Lk. 22:19; cf. 1 Cor. 11.24), i.e:, an obedience to the command to announce the Gospel and to renew daily the sacrifice of the giving of his body and the shedding of his blood fo

MASS READINGS: Gospel Mark 6:17-29 Herod was the one who had John the Baptist arrested and bound in prisonon account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias harbored a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so. Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and kept him in custody. When he heard him speak he was very much p

THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY Good Saturday morning to all Priests! Good Saturday morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED SATURDAY!

"I appeal especially to families. May parents, mothers in particular, be generous in giving their sons to the Lord when he calls them to the priesthood. May they cooperate joyfully in their vocational journey, realizing that in this way they will be increasing and deepening their Christian fruitfulness in the Church and that, in a sense, they will experience the blessedness of Mary, the virgin mother: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!" (Lk.

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 25:1-13 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The Kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps. Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegr

Good morning to all Priests! Good morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED FRIDAY!

"It is necessary to pray for priests because they are so often forgotten by the living, since Christians often consider that priests do not need prayers." ~ St. Joseph Moscati

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 24:42-51 Jesus said to his disciples: “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of

Good morning to all Priests! Good morning to all PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED THURSDAY!

"When people wish to destroy religion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer any priest there is no sacrifice, and where there is no longer any sacrifice there is no religion." ~ St. John Vianney #Saints #Quotes

MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 23:27-32 Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous, and you s

Good Wednesday morning to all Priests! Good morning to all our PAPA Missionaries! Let us pray for Fr. Ignatius O. Okoli celebrating his Birthday today! Let us pray for the nascent babies and their parents! Let us pray for all marriages and families! Let us pray for all Priests, Bishops, and Cardinals! Let us pray for Pope Leo XIV! Here are our PAPA Prayers on our Website! HAVE A BLESSED WEDNESDAY!

"The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes