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    Lord, Give Us Priests Again

    During the communist persecution, Anna Stang suffered greatly and, like so many other women in her circumstances, offered her sufferings for priests. In her old age, she herself became a person with a priestly spirit.

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    Let Us Give Our Children to God

    Certain of the power of silent and faithful prayer, Eliza Vaughan set aside an hour of adoration each day in the house chapel, praying for vocations in her family. In becoming the mother of six priests, she was greatly answered.

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    The Price for a Holy Priest

    Berthe Petit is a great Belgian mystic, a little-known soul of atonement. Jesus clearly showed her the priest for whom she was to renounce her personal plans, and He also saw to it that she met him.

  • Lu Monferrato's Vocations

    A Prayer That Gave Rise to 323 Vocations

    In 1881, a few mothers in Lu Monferrato began meeting on Tuesdays before the Blessed Sacrament to ask for one thing only: that God would call their sons. From that village of a few thousand inhabitants came 323 vocations.

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