Vocations

“The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.”  This section of Matthew’s Gospel is often used as an invitation to pray for more vocations – vocations of the baptized for sure, but also vocations to religious life, priesthood, and diaconate.

Here at Christ the King, we’re blessed that we have one young woman that I think is still in her novitiate down in Virginia.  And yesterday, Matt Laird, who recently graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, received his acceptance as a seminarian for the Diocese and is going to St. John’s in Boston next year.  And he told me I could mention his name – there’s another young man, Chris Hughes, who is discerning his vocation.  That won’t be for another couple of years; hopefully to be accepted as a seminarian for the Diocese.

Maybe today as we hear Matthew’s Gospel, we can pray for an increase in vocations, as well as praying for those that are discerning – that the Lord may give them insight as to what He is asking of them.

Monsignor Daniel Hoye