Holy Priests and Zeal For Salvation of Souls or Political Activism and Social Justice Programs? What Did St. John Marie Vianney Think?
This feast day for St. John Marie Vianney should garner more attention than it does or will. What a shame! Here is what I wrote last year on this occasion. I frequently write urging prayers for our priests, prayers for more holy priests, prayers for priests whose lives are truly centered on the Eucharist, and for priests who have an unflinching zeal for the salvation of souls. Why not offer a monthly Novena to St. John Vianney on behalf of your priests? Despite the pleas of John Paul II and Benedict XVI that their priests follow this holy man’s example, this patron saint of priests is too often ignored. How can that be? To help better appreciate what a gift St. John Vianney is to our Church and to his brother priests, I recommend you take a look at St. John Vianney's Pastoral Plan , a two part article written by Fr. John Cihak, S.T.D. and which appeared at Ignatius Insight . You can find Father’s work here and here . Father Roger J. Landry also wrote a...