Future Priest Letter

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Dear Future Priest, I pray that you will be the best you can be. God has called you to this vocation so there is no reason for you to worry. I have faith that you will be able to guide your parish with the word of God. I do have on piece of advice. The parish’s that I have gone to have overlooked the young adults and I would like to give you some tips on how to integrate the youth in the parish. Most of the time priests feel that if they want to have a chance to relate to the youth they must know what is “cool.” This is not true. Most teenagers will give respect and attention to priests who try to tell them what the reality of any given situation is. Something else that might help young adults view you as more approachable would be to reference the times in your past when you weren’t a priest. This helps you seem more relatable. For some reason it is always a little intimidating asked a priest for advice on controversial issues because we fear or worry that we might be judged. But I think with some reassurance that you only want to help us find what is best for us we will be able to be more open with priests such as yourself. All in all I would like to wish you the best in your future as a priest. I would like to let you know that all your hard work is noticed and appreciated. Yet I know, too, that priests are one with us and share our human weaknesses. I know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as we are, as do we, an need to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our faith. I ask that God give you this day the gift He gave you on your way to your calling: God’s presence in your heart, His holiness in your soul, His joy in your spirit. And let you
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