Prayer for Those Discerning Their Vocation in Life:
O Holy Spirit, Spirit of wisdom and divine love, impart Your knowledge, understanding, and counsel to youth that they may know the vocation wherein they can best serve God. Give them courage and strength to follow God's holy will. Guide their uncertain steps, strengthen their resolutions, shield their chastity, fashion their minds, conquer their hearts, and lead them into the vineyards where they will labor in God's holy service. Amen. 

A Prayer for Priests:
by Saint Therese of Lisieux
O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood.Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world's contagion. Bless their labors with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.

Prayer for the Family:
Written for the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia
God and Father of us all, in Jesus, your Son and our Savior, you have made us your sons and daughters in the family of the Church. May your grace and love help our families in every part of the world be united to one another in fidelity to the Gospel. May the example of the Holy Family, with the aid of your Holy Spirit, guide all families, especially those most troubled, to be homes of communion and prayerand to always seek your truth and live in your love. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us!
 

If you are a young man or woman and are interested in a possible vocation to the priesthood or religious life, please feel free to contact Fr. Lagiovane or Fr. Kenny anytime at the parish office or after mass.

For more information about how to discern a vocation to the priesthood or religious life, please see the website for the Vocations Office of the Archdiocese of New York: http://www.nypriest.com/          The current Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of New York is Fr. Christopher Argano. 

For more information on what it means to be a seminarian as well as the seminary formation process for priesthood, please see the website for Saint Joseph's Seminary: http://www.dunwoodie.edu/