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T hank you Dear Healthcare Workers, We thank you fo r your compassion and and fo r your dedication and courage. On May 13 at 8 pm, all parishes in the archdiocese wi Masses fo r all o f you involved in caring fo r SARS p and all the families affected by the disease. Collection Masses will be donated to the Courage Fund. On the same day at 6.30pm, the CommissionforM will celebrate a Mass at the Marymount Chapel onTl Roadforforeign healthcare workers caringfor SARS p ^8®
POPE ASKS Y O U N G M EN T O C O N SID ER PR IESTH O O D temptations o f individualism and o p e j o h n p a u l ii the illusion o f obtaining their urged young people to happiness in that way,” he said. consider the priesthood “Notwithstanding certain and other ministries in contrary forces, present also in the Church as a form o f generous the mentality o f today, in the service to their fellow human hearts o f many young people beings in his annual vocations there is a natural disposition to day m essage. open up to others, especially to The priesthood or religious the m ost needy,” he said. life represents a radical choice, He said this readiness to put but one which can “transform the other person ahead o f their your lives into the service o f own interests others, in the may not reflect footsteps of W ORLD worldly Jesus,” the pope V O C A T IO N S D A Y aspirations, but said. FEA TU R E fits in w ell with World - PAGE 7 the ideal o f the Vocations Day w ill priesthood and a be celebrated May religious 11,2003. vocation. The pope said “True the ideal o f service servants are goes back to the h u m b le.... They life o f Christ, who do not seek washed the feet o f egoistic benefits, his disciples and but expend gave his life for all them selves for people. others, “I should like, experiencing in in a way, to give the gift of voice to Jesus, so them selves the as to propose to joy o f working young people the for free,” he said. ideal o f service The pope said and to help them G od’s call to to overcom e the
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“Nurture your attraction to those values and radical choices which will transform your lives into service of others” —Pope John Paul II, encouraging young men to be priests.
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service can include the ordained ministry as w ell as other ministries in the m odem Church, including catechesis, liturgical animation and various expressions o f charity. Some young men are called to serve in the priesthood, he said, and they, too, should remember Jesus’ words that he who would
be first must be servant o f all. “Dear young men, nurture your attraction to those values and radical choices which will transform your lives into service o f others,” he said. “D o not let yourselves be seduced by the call o f power and personal ambition. The priestly ideal must be constantly purified
from these and other dangerous ambiguities,” he said. The pope said those who follow Christ’s call to the priesthood w ill surely encounter difficulties and sacrifices, but will also find a way to experience the happiness o f service and a joy that the world alone cannot give.
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