Letters to Priests, Thanking The Men of the Catholic Church is an interactive book designed to provide support for Catholics
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At the top of this site is a tab that says, to submit a letter.
By Anne Hughes, Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Book Cover Letters To Priests, Thanking The Men Of The Catholic ChurchLetters to Priests, Thanking The Men of the Catholic Church is an interactive book designed to provide support for Catholics. The book is a collection of inspiring stories from around the world. The stories highlight the significant role a Catholic Priest played in the lives of Catholics who felt honored and compelled to share their stories with others in hopes of encouraging and promoting Vocations. Contributions of letters are still being accepted.
You may submit a letter to www.letterstopriests.com and will receive an email back from Anne Hughes. Anne and her sister Teena will help you edit your story and encourage you to share details of your struggles so that Catholics and non-Catholics may share in your recovery from grief to joy.
You may read several stories on the website. The letters are testimonials of the often overlooked benefit of providing your children with an opportunity to turn to their faith in every corner of the world. Stories of college students facing surgery alone and scared pick up a phone and call a priest who stays at their bedside, half a world away from their family.
Stories of priests who listen to our pain, and reach into their soul for words to relieve us of guilt, shame, anger, and disappointment in ourselves. These healing words are being shared, often years later, in a testimonial of their strength and healing kindness.
Please share your story and thank the priest who reached into his soul in an effort to heal you. Your healing journey during a divorce or grief from the loss of a loved one my provide inspiration to those not ready to talk with a priest about their own pain. Your story may encourage someone considering the priesthood. Your story may save the life of someone who has traveled in your shoes, but does not currently have the strength of the Catholic Church behind them.
Join us, write your story, and share the strength of our faith during such dire economic times. Our friends and neighbors need encouraging words. Priests need to be reminded their efforts have impacted our lives. This is a gift from the laity. We are the strength of the Catholic Church. Live up to it.
September 26th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Father Larry Delaney (Dewit, MI) has provided support and encouragement for me and my family for over 35 years!
He was the pastor of the student parish at the University that I attended. He provided the marriage preparation class and presided over my marriage to my husband 31 years ago. When our daughter announced her engagement we asked her if she would ask father Larry to assist her and her fiance to prepare for the sacrament of marriage. They traveled to do so and Father Larry in turn traveled to the Basilica of Notre Dame to marry them! He has said mass for our extended family for special celebrations and funerals, baptisms, first communions and confirmations. Our family would not be as strong as we are if it weren’t for father Larry’s words of wisdom. My biological family is of 8 bio, 7 fostered and 4 adopted siblings…not to mention 70 first cousins. Father Larry could call most of them by name. He is man of incredible faith, hope and love.
We have been blessed to know him.
October 14th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Dear Anne: Thank you for this beautiful publication for our priests. Their service and Spiritual welfare are in great hands! I would like to let you know that on Saturday, 23 October 2010 the fifth annual LAY FAST FOR PRIESTS 2010 will occur. Tens of thousands of lay fasters throughout the Universal Church will join in a common day of fast and prayer for our priests – past, present and future – on that day. To date, good souls from 41 countries are joining in the Lay Fast. The Lay Fast Team will be sure to promote this beautiful book to Our Lady’s army of fasters. God bless, Anna and the Lay Fast team.
January 30th, 2011 at 12:30 am
He provided the marriage preparation class and presided over my marriage to my husband 31 years ago. He is man of incredible faith, hope and love. When our daughter announced her engagement we asked her if she would ask father Larry to assist her and her fiance to prepare for the sacrament of marriage.. My biological family is of 8 bio, 7 fostered and 4 adopted siblings…not to mention 70 first cousins. They traveled to do so and Father Larry in turn traveled to the Basilica of Notre Dame to marry them! He has said mass for our extended family for special celebrations and funerals, baptisms, first communions and confirmations. Father Larry could call most of them by name. Our family would not be as strong as we are if it weren’t for father Larry’s words of wisdom?