HOMILIES, TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS


On the following pages you will find listed some talks, presentations or homilies by different authors on the topic of vocations, which are being here published with their kind permission. The contents, while addressed originally to a specific audience, can be useful for anybody interested in the topic and helpful especially to those who are either discerning a vocation or involved in assisting them and, generally, to all those promoting vocations in the Church.


LETTER BY CARDINAL CLAUDIO HUMMES,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
Dated, 30 May 2008

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 13 April 2008

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 29 April 2007

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Holy Thursday, 5 April 2007

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 7 May 2006

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Holy Thursday, 13 April 2006

“Make no small plans”
Building a New Vocations Culture in Canada

Keynote Address
National Conference of Canadian Diocesan Vocation Directors
St. Mary’s University – Halifax, Nova Scotia   June 6, 2006

Fr. Thomas Rosica, C.S.B.,
C.E.O., Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation
Master of Scholastics, Congregation of St. Basil


"If You Abide in Christ, You Will Bear Much Fruit"
By Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI addressed this homily to seminarians attending World Youth Day, in St. Pantaleon's Church, in Cologne, Germany, on August 19, 2005. 

This is an English translation of the text which was delivered in German, English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

COLOGNE, Germany, AUG. 19, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is the homily Benedict XVI addressed to seminarians, attending World Youth Day, in St. Pantaleon's Church today.


Letter of his Holiness John Paul II To Priests
Holy Thursday 2004

Letter of his Holiness John Paul II To Priests
Holy Thursday 1996


The Priesthood Requires Personal Holiness

General Audience by Pope John Paul II May 26, 1993


Presbyters Share in Christ's Priesthood

General Audience by Pope John Paul II March 31, 1993


The Nature of the Priesthood
By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

This speech was given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on October 1, 1990. This is a translation of the Cardinal's 22-page Latin speech entitled, "On the Nature of the Priesthood"

   
 

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