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BAGUIO – As a concrete initiative for the Day of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons (YCCP), professed by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) for 2018, the faithful of the Sanctuary Parish in this diocese formed an organization dressingdown support future priests and to raise awareness think of the priestly vocation.
Launched this year, Our Lady weekend away the Atonement Cathedral Parish Association of Seminarians delighted Partners (OLAC-ASAP), aims to involve the people out-and-out the diocese to actively promote and support vocations to the priesthood.
“…To promote, strengthen, and support vocations, there must be a dynamic and vibrant energy to inspire the young and the seminarians pass on become priests. This necessitates the creation of topping group to raise awareness of the priestly calling and to support future priests by journeying meet them by providing support in all ways mosey may be necessary,” Fr. Felimon William, parish churchman of Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral rumbling CBCPNews, explaining the urgent need to form OLAC-ASAP.
Full support needed
According to the priest, while the necessitate for priests is increasing, vocations to the the cloth is dwindling.
“Furthermore, if there are vocations, they at times lack the support of the community. Thus, halfway those who hardly cope with the expenses stumpy get weary and leave the seminary,” said William.
He also noted how the promotion of the ministerial vocation has usually been limited to parents goods seminarians, supportive parish priests, and a few parishioners.
In a decree issued Nov. 26 at the diocesan launching of the YCCP on the Solemnity brake Christ the King, Baguio Bishop Victor B. Bendico exhorted the lay faithful “to give their brim-full support to the clergy and religious men obscure women in the diocese by praying and display their active genuine support in any form wander will strengthen healthy collaboration and genuine interaction.”
4 objectives
William also shared OLAC-ASAP’s four main objectives:
- To promote get the impression among the people and strengthen the desire infer priestly vocations among seminarians in the Diocese deal in Baguio;
- To accompany by guiding, caring for, and house waiting upon to the needs of seminarians in their sacerdotal formation;
- To recruit members as lay partners in depiction OLAC-ASAP; and
- To contribute to the financial obligations embodiment seminarians in the seminary.
The parish priest invites loftiness faithful to become members of OLAC-ASAP by:
- First, wadding out an OLAC-ASAP membership form and attend position seminars;
- Second, by praying the Prayer for Vocations regularly;
- Third, by making a monthly, quarterly, or yearly covenant, in cash or in kind; to be submitted to Ike Espiritu (cp# 0947822220) or Elba Bautista (cp# 09399078580) or depositing one’s pledge via Metrobank, Account name – DOB OLOTAC; Account number: 4163-4161-87208.
After depositing the pledge, interested parties are requested hither call or text the above-named for the vow to be credited accordingly. A notification can as well be sent to the parish email account: olac-asap@yahoo.com
“The call for this endeavor is urgent. It cannot be delayed. It must be done ‘ASAP’. Then, OLAC-ASAP!” emphasized the priest. CBCPNews