Just a few snippets from Fr. Namiotka's column:
Editor's Note: We appreciate the priests who help us out and visit us regularly, including Fr. Smith and Fr. Gannon. We definitely enjoyed having Fr. Smith and look forward to his return to St. Mary's, and of course we all love Fr. Gannon and have known him for many years. Many of us also know Fr. Tumosa from St. Rose of Lima and certainly we will no doubt enjoy having a Carmelite visit us in the near future.
In any event, it has been expressed by many at St. Mary's that we would also love to have Fr. Romanowski say mass for us more frequently, even though he is so busy filling in at so many parishes around the diocese and keeps busy with his work with the Legion of Mary and Holy Name. We are very glad to have him say the Traditional Mass for us once a month and look forward to it with great eagerness. Since Fr. Romanowski is willing and able, there is really no reason why he cannot fill in just as any of the other priests can.
We welcome all of these good priests to St. Mary's. Thank you for your service to the Church. And instead of despairing of a seeming lack of priestly vocations (and we know this is not true since all we have to do is look to the traditional orders and to the FSSP to see that this is not the case), let us pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life and encourage our children to consider these possibilities!
This is a 2009 group shot of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) seminarians.
Lack of priestly vocations? I think not. Wishy-washiness in many American dioceses?
Definitely. Clearly young priests and religoius want to lay down their lives for
the One True Church in an unequivocal way, without dilution, without nonsense.
Fr. John Buckthese, OCD, a Carmelite priest from India (via Spain) will be helping at the parish during the month of July....Fr. Bernard Gannon, Fr. John Tumosa, Fr. Martin Smith, OSA, and Fr. John Bruni will also be assisting on various weekends and/or particular weekday situations at St. Mary's. We welcome their help and support.
May the Year of the Priest invigorate all of us who are ordained to serve you more fervently while we strive for a deeper holiness and love of Our Lord.
Fr. Ed Namiotka
Editor's Note: We appreciate the priests who help us out and visit us regularly, including Fr. Smith and Fr. Gannon. We definitely enjoyed having Fr. Smith and look forward to his return to St. Mary's, and of course we all love Fr. Gannon and have known him for many years. Many of us also know Fr. Tumosa from St. Rose of Lima and certainly we will no doubt enjoy having a Carmelite visit us in the near future.
In any event, it has been expressed by many at St. Mary's that we would also love to have Fr. Romanowski say mass for us more frequently, even though he is so busy filling in at so many parishes around the diocese and keeps busy with his work with the Legion of Mary and Holy Name. We are very glad to have him say the Traditional Mass for us once a month and look forward to it with great eagerness. Since Fr. Romanowski is willing and able, there is really no reason why he cannot fill in just as any of the other priests can.
We welcome all of these good priests to St. Mary's. Thank you for your service to the Church. And instead of despairing of a seeming lack of priestly vocations (and we know this is not true since all we have to do is look to the traditional orders and to the FSSP to see that this is not the case), let us pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life and encourage our children to consider these possibilities!
This is a 2009 group shot of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) seminarians.
Lack of priestly vocations? I think not. Wishy-washiness in many American dioceses?
Definitely. Clearly young priests and religoius want to lay down their lives for
the One True Church in an unequivocal way, without dilution, without nonsense.