Monsignore, what does priesthood bring you everyday? Is it possible nowadays to live from it? It is certainly still possible in this day and age to offer one’s life up through priesthood, to find in it one’s life’s full meaning and I might add  it is absolutely beautiful and fascinating. This can be said without a doubt based on a consideration of faith: there can be no life of the Church without  ministerial priesthood, it will… Read More

Is the seminary, as currently existing in France, still adapted to the reality of its candidates? Is the formation taught fit for pastoral mission? Is the human and intellectual formation sufficient for pastoral work? A gloomy starting point Seminarians have a theoretical formation of seven years before arriving at the priesthood. Most of them nowadays arrive at the seminary at an older age then before and often after a well filled life but… Read More

For having repeated this supplication so often, it must be admitted that more often we do not measure its significance. What could have been Benedict XVI’s intention on decreeing this Year for Priests by placing it under the mantle of the Patron of Parish Priests, other than for clergy and laity to meditate on the essence of priestly sanctity, and in particular the sanctity of the secular priest? There are abundant misconceptions on this… Read More

The priesthood is always a delicate subject. Becoming a priest is an effect of a vocation which is an irreproducible call.  The God who shines his sun on the good and the bad and who counts all the hairs on our head, sews the net of our fate and its him who makes priesthood known to he who is called. Oh! Each one of us has received a call from God. Each one of us has something to achieve in this life which no one else can do in our place and… Read More