This is a time for you to express your innermost feelings for your father and to let him know how much you love him and care for him. It is an important time to give thanks and to implore God’s blessings over him. We offer, as a spiritual gift, a Novena of Masses for all fathers, living or deceased, of our friends and benefactors.
On Mother’s Day we, Rogationist Fathers, would like to express our genuine gratitude for your friendship. In appreciation for your kindness we are delighted to offer you a spiritual gift of prayer: A thanksgiving Novena of Masses will be celebrated, in the month of May, for your Mother (living or deceased). May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of all, watch over your Mother. And may God, through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, give peace, joy and good health to all Mothers.
St. Hannibal got so surprised when finally he found the inspiration he already had received during adoration, right in the words of Jesus:
“The harvest is great, but the laborers are few! Pray (in latin Rogate) therefore the owner of the harvest, so that he will send laborers into his harvest” (Mt. 9, 37-38; Lk 10,2).
While still very young, St. Hannibal had the intuition by divine inspiration on the importance of prayer in the pastoral care for vocations, even before discovering its origin from the Gospel.
Pope Francis recalls four key words – pain, gratitude, encouragement and praise – as a way of thanking priests and supporting their ministry. Today, on the 57th World Day of Prayer for Vocations, those words can be addressed to the whole people of God, against the backdrop of the Gospel passage that recounts for us the remarkable experience of Jesus and Peter during a stormy night on the Sea of Galilee (cf. Mt 14:22-33). He asks the Church to continue to promote vocations. May she touch the hearts of the faithful and enable each of them to discover with gratitude God’s call in their lives, to find courage to say “yes” to God, to overcome all weariness through faith in Christ, and to make of their lives a song of praise for God, for their brothers and sisters, and for the whole world.
