Wednesday, November 28, 2007

On St John Berchmans and Why We Need Priests


Feast Day November 27. And Nicholas' Confirmation Saint ( Nick = son number 3).

Patron Saint of Altar Servers.

We talked about St John Berchmans and read about St Catherine of Laboure. Of the
Miraculous Medal.

I then found a sheet on Holy Orders, in the book
100 Activities based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

We looked up references in the Compendium to the CCC. And the kids wrote a few paragraphs on why we need priests.

Why do we need priests on the church? Because of Holy Orders the priest "possesses the authority to act in the power and place of the person of Christ himself" (Catechism, #1548).


My kids wrote more interesting answers. Very interesting. You can imagine!


Why do we need priests?


This might be a good question to ask your kids, if you are a Catholic reading this blog. Their answers may surprise you.


And all of this was very timely for us, having recently attended an ordination..

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