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6 GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1968
A Public Service Message
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the Catholic teacher's
dedication to awakening
and developing the
resources hidden in the
"Susies” and "Johnnies"
—to know, to love
and to act freely.
The Catholic educator-
religious and lay—
strives to lead pupils
through natural bonds
of trust, affection and
respect to God.
Selfless, kind, loving,
consistent, just, firm,
the teacher assists the
student to a lived faith
based on loving contact
with God.
The fruitfulness of
Catholic teachers is
incalculable. Striving to
live in God’s presence,
they offer themselves
as servants to
the world laboring in
Catholic schools.
meant “personal and voluntary
oblation to the cause of Christ
and of His Church.”
“There cannot be any
vocations,” he said, “unless they
are free; unless, in other words,
they are offered spontaneously of
themselves, consciously
.generously, totally.”
This, he said, applies both to
priestly and Religious vocations,
to male and female vocations.
Willingness to sacrifice, the
Pope went on, is the crux of the
problem. The world of religion,
discredited by atheism or
hedonism, he said, is no longer as
attractive as it once was.
But youth, he said, is still
receptive to the call of the
Church to do “difficult things,
heroic things.”
The Pope urged families to be
willing to make the sacrifice of a
son or daughter to the Church.
His message, he said, was also
addressed to pastors and
educators “that they may know
how to discover, support and
guide the vocations which are
nascent in the hearts of youth.”
It was addressed also to those
who had experience of life.
“Adult vocations,” he said, “are a
new hope for the Church.”
Finally, the Pope asked “all the
people of God to reflect on the
great problem of vocations” and
he quoted the admonition of the
Second Vatican Council, which
said: “The task of fostering
vocations devolves on the whole
Christian community.”
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Paul VI stressed the church’s
need for priestly and Religious
vocations and the freedom that
should characterize such
vocations in a message addressed
to the faithful of the world on
the fifth World Day of Prayer for
Vocations (April 28).
The need, the Pope said, stems
from the plan of salvation in the
mind of God, “who wanted
Christ to be the sole source of
salvation and of sanctity, and
who wanted His mission to be
perpetuated and spread through
chosen men, partakers in the
priesthood of Christ,
indispensable ministers of the
word and of grace among the rest
of mankind.” •
This need, arising from the
nature of the Church, is now
more acute, the Pope continued,
because the numbers of the
ministers of the Gospel are
diminishing, while the fields open
to their work are increasing.
The Second Vatican Council’s
highlighting of the priesthood of
the faithful, the Pope said, should
not lead to a “dimming of the
ministerial, or hierarchical,
priesthood....In fact, the more
the common priesthood is to be
improved, the more it has need of
the ministry of the hierarchical
priesthood, and the more the
function entrusted to the latter
manifests its absolute necessity.”
The Pope added that “the
destinies of the Church, and so of
the Christian salvation of the
world cannot be judged as being
founded on charismatic
phenomena or movements, which
themselves need the ministry and
approval of the hierarchical
priesthood.” The priesthood’s
authority and the priests’
sacramental power to “renew the
bloodless celebration” are
necessary for the Church and the
salvation of mankind, he said.
As an additional reason
indicating the need for vocations,
the Pope cited the secularization
of the modem world which has a
greater need for a “consecrated
and specialized presence” of
‘stewards of the mysteries of
God’ (I Cor. 4, 1).”
In addition to the need for
vocations, the Pope in his
message stressed freedom of
vocations, by which, he said, he
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