Please pray for our pastor, Fr. George! And please pray for all priests, and for an increase to priestly vocations!
Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs.
We pray for them in THEIR needs. We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood. Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as are we, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as
we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings,
our lives, our faith. We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way
to Emmaus: Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their spirits. And let
them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread. We pray to You, O Lord, through
Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.
- Cardinal John O'Connor
Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs.
We pray for them in THEIR needs. We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood. Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as are we, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as
we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings,
our lives, our faith. We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way
to Emmaus: Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their spirits. And let
them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread. We pray to You, O Lord, through
Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.
- Cardinal John O'Connor
A letter from Fr. George Amos when he began as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in 2022:
Dear brothers and sisters, as I begin my ministry among you, I want to sincerely express my gratitude to you for not just being nominal member of our parish but for actively serving the Body of Christ, the Church in various capacities over the years. The list of individuals, groups of individuals, and families who have contributed their time, talents resources, expertise, and presence for the sustenance and growth of the parish seems endless. But be that as it may, I thank all those individuals who are serving in various committees and councils for your advice and counsel to the Pastor, and for physically executing tasks assigned to you. Your counsel and advice over the years have brought the parish to the level it is today.
More so, I thank the Knights of Columbus, Altar Society, Christian Service/Mother Mary Helpers, and other organizations for the contributions you make to the life of our parish. As you know, the celebrations of the Eucharist is the center of our parish life hence, I thank all who serve during our Eucharistic celebrations and other liturgies. We are grateful to the extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, ushers, greeter, lectors, musicians, cantors, sacristans, and altar servers. As I thank you, I seize this opportunity to reinvite you to the service you have been rendering and to invite more of our parishioners to serve the Body of Christ in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish. Our parish needs each of us!
For me, I am grateful to God for calling me to serve his church as a priest for the past 20 years. This week Thursday, July 21, I will be marking my 21st Anniversary of Priestly Ordination with the 10:00 am Mass. I am grateful to God that despite my unworthiness, He not only called me but has sustained me in his vineyard allowing me to serve the Church and her people in various capacities and places. Today, it has pleased God that I carry out my ministry among you in this parish of Caseville and I am certain that together we will serve God and worship him in spirit and in truth. Please, pray for me and that I may be faithful to my vocation and as your pastor. God bless you.
Dear brothers and sisters, as I begin my ministry among you, I want to sincerely express my gratitude to you for not just being nominal member of our parish but for actively serving the Body of Christ, the Church in various capacities over the years. The list of individuals, groups of individuals, and families who have contributed their time, talents resources, expertise, and presence for the sustenance and growth of the parish seems endless. But be that as it may, I thank all those individuals who are serving in various committees and councils for your advice and counsel to the Pastor, and for physically executing tasks assigned to you. Your counsel and advice over the years have brought the parish to the level it is today.
More so, I thank the Knights of Columbus, Altar Society, Christian Service/Mother Mary Helpers, and other organizations for the contributions you make to the life of our parish. As you know, the celebrations of the Eucharist is the center of our parish life hence, I thank all who serve during our Eucharistic celebrations and other liturgies. We are grateful to the extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, ushers, greeter, lectors, musicians, cantors, sacristans, and altar servers. As I thank you, I seize this opportunity to reinvite you to the service you have been rendering and to invite more of our parishioners to serve the Body of Christ in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish. Our parish needs each of us!
For me, I am grateful to God for calling me to serve his church as a priest for the past 20 years. This week Thursday, July 21, I will be marking my 21st Anniversary of Priestly Ordination with the 10:00 am Mass. I am grateful to God that despite my unworthiness, He not only called me but has sustained me in his vineyard allowing me to serve the Church and her people in various capacities and places. Today, it has pleased God that I carry out my ministry among you in this parish of Caseville and I am certain that together we will serve God and worship him in spirit and in truth. Please, pray for me and that I may be faithful to my vocation and as your pastor. God bless you.