Dear Parishioners,
Congratulations to Isaiah and Abigail Thooft who are baptized this weekend at OLV. We are so grateful that the Lord lead them to Matt and Bernadette, and that Matt and Bernadette are helping them to find the Lord.
Congratulations to Fr. Aaron Johanneck! It is truly a great day for our diocese, our AFC, and for the Johanneck family. May the ministry he is about to begin bring him fulfillment and led him and many to God! Thank you, Fr. Aaron, for your response to the Lord's call, and to Tom and Connie for your generous gift to the Church of your son.
This last week, the Congregation for Education released a document on the promotion of vocations to the priesthood. The document highlights the need for all to be concerned with vocations - an integrated pastoral ministry - to work together in helping their sons discern a vocation. They write: "The family remains the primary community for the transmission of the Christian faith. It can be seen everywhere that many priestly vocations are born in families where the example of a Christian life in keeping with its calling and the practice of the evangelical virtues give rise to the desire for complete self-giving. Care for vocations presupposes, in reality, a strong family pastoral ministry." I find this as confirmation of the need for the book I have finished, as it is written for parents to know what they need to support their children in discerning a vocation.
In Christ,
Fr. Todd
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