The Travelling Priest: Vark Reidy interviews a remarkable man in Hong Kong Vista 4 World: Franciscan confessors at St Peter's feel the pulse of the Church
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Perspectives: Derek and <aren 3oy1en on children and vocations
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Bookshop: esources to helo adults, teens discern vocations.
page 20 "Be indefatigable in your purpose and with undaunted spirit resist iniquity and try to conquer evil with good, having before your eyes the reward of those who combat for Christ." -BISHOP MATTHEW GIBNEY 1874
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Prisoner no more THE man now charged with helping young men in Perth discern whether Christ is calling them to the priesthood was once sitting in a Cambodian prison cell after police intercepted his trip from Vietnam to Thailand via people smugglers. Today, Fr Thai Vu has a love affair with God - he is a priest: alone, but not lonely. A fter a year as vocations director, he tells The Record that God calls men to be witnesses to Christ throughout the ages, regardless of the state of the world or the Church.
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GIVING hope to people and bringing Christ to a world that badly needs His presence are the big rewards of a priesthood, says Fr John O'Reilly, a retired priest who's worked extensively in youth ministry and as Perth's diocesan vocations director. Today, he's back at St Charles Seminary as a spiritual director, and has compassionate but strengthening words of advice for young men discerning a call to the priesthood: don't let your mates tell you what you should do. If Christ is calling you, what else matters? - See his story on Vista 2-3
QUOTABLE "Let the whole of mankind tremble, the whole of the world shake, and the heavens exalt when Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest." - St Francis of Assisi "The priest continues the work of redemption on earth. ... If we really understood the priest on earth, we would die not of fright but of love. The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus." - St Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney
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