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Shlomo Lkhoolkhoon, Here is another piece of news you all will find interesting. Fush BaShlomo Lkhoolkhoon, Yuhannon Eastern Catholic Churches Ordaining Numerous Priests, Including Married Ones [ catholic.org] 1/19/2010
Zenit News Agency (www.zenit.org [zenit.org])
Following the changes of 1989 Eastern Catholic Churches have had the joy of being able to ordain numerous young priests, including married ones.
VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org) - The Assembly of Societies for Aid to Eastern Churches (ROACO) will focus their next meeting on finding ways to support the clergy, especially in Europe and the Middle East.
A note from the Congregation for Eastern Churches, which oversees the assembly, explained that this 82nd session will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in the Vatican.
The focus on clergy was inspired by the Church's celebration of the Year for Priests.
The communiqué stated that "following the changes of 1989, the Eastern Catholic Churches of Central and Eastern Europe have had the joy of being able to ordain numerous young priests, including married ones, in keeping with the ancient tradition of their Churches."
It continued, "Because of the modest economic conditions of their countries, and the absence of self-financing ecclesiastical structures, the maintenance of priests has been guaranteed to a large extent by the Churches of the West through the aid agencies, members of ROACO."
The congregation stated that "after twenty years, the time has come for an evaluation of each effective projection for the future."
Regarding priests in the Middle East, this evaluation will particularly focus on health care and old age. The session participants also plan to give attention to the situation of the Eastern Churches in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Iraq.
The meetings will be held in the conference hall of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Representatives of some twenty Catholic agencies from ten Western countries will participate in the meeting along with the apostolic delegate to Jerusalem, Archbishop Antonio Franco, and the apostolic nuncio to Sudan and Eritrea, Archbishop Leo Boccardi.
ROACO is an organization that was founded in 1968 by the Congregation for Eastern Churches. Twice a year it brings together agencies committed to the support of these Churches in their dimensions: worship, clergy, pastoral formation, education, health care and social aid.
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Time for our jurisdictions in the United States to get with the program. In the meanwhile, I recommend making contributions to our Eastern European seminaries, who have a surfeit of candidates and a dearth of resources. A donation of just $150 to the Theodore Romzha Seminary will provide the tuition for one seminarian for an entire year.
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Good point, Stuart! The following quote is from the newsletter of the Mission Society of the Mother of God of Boronyavo: Seminary tuition is $300 a year.
One-third of the 112 students cannot afford to pay $25 a month for their studies.
Can you? Mark your donation Seminary and indicate if you will be contributing
monthly. Or you can send one check in a particular amount for the support of a semi-
narian over the span of several months!
I wish I had more to give, but I can’t afford much now. How else can I help?
PRAY – for vocations in America, and for the building up of our Church in the nations
of Eastern Europe.
Organize a pancake breakfast at your parish after Divine Liturgy, with your pastor’s permission, and round up volunteers for shopping, cooking, serving, and cleaning up. It doesn’t take much work to raise enough to renovate a room or pay for a seminarian’s tuition.
Hold a garage sale at your home. Get other people to donate items. Post a sign that all the income goes to help our struggling Church in Eastern Europe. Put notices about the sale in the regular newspaper notices, and in church bulletins around your area. Fr Chris Zugger of the VanNuys eparchy supports a mission to support the Greek Catholic Church in Sub-Carpathia. You can find particulars in by copying and pasting in your browser this link: http://www.missionboronyavo.org
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Time for our jurisdictions in the United States to get with the program. In the meanwhile, I recommend making contributions to our Eastern European seminaries, who have a surfeit of candidates and a dearth of resources. A donation of just $150 to the Theodore Romzha Seminary will provide the tuition for one seminarian for an entire year. Shlomo Aho Stuart, Thanks for the great suggestion. I would also recommend that members donate to CNEWA (the Catholic Near East Welfare Association) [ cnewa.org]. The link provided is to their Form Church Leadership page. It reads as follows: CNEWA makes a profound impact on the lives of thousands. Here are two ways you can become involved.
Sponsor a Seminarian [cnewa.org]
Today CNEWA sponsors assist over 2,000 seminarians in India, Northeast Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. But there are hundreds more of these young men who would like to answer the call of God.
Sponsor a Sister [cnewa.org]
Hundreds of women in the regions served by CNEWA want to respond to the Lord’s call to serve as religious sisters, but room, board and education are costly and most of these women are poor – and religious congregations have very limited funds. This is a papal agency and therefore is the conduit for most funding for Eastern Catholic Churches here in NA. Fush BaShlomo, Yuhannon
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