Living on a small island, with a ferry service that is most problematic in these post-covid times, we are grateful for the (almost) daily Mass. Our two priests priests, who alternate weeks, come at great cost, getting up before dawn to catch the first boat, often wondering when they will return home.
St. John Paul II gave a speech to priests in the United States in 1979, in which he made an appeal to the local Catholic population to pray for priests:
“At times we hear the words, “Pray for priests.” And today I address these words as an appeal, as a plea, to all the faithful of the Church in the