The Episcopal Conference of France (CEF) reported that in this year 2024, 105 new priests will be ordained, 17 more priests than in 2023, when they were ordained in the European country. 88 new priests.
In a use published on the CEF website, it is stated that the vast majority of priestly ordinations are celebrated during the month of June, particularly on the Sunday before the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Saints, which the Catholic Church celebrates every year on June 29.
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The new priests are distributed as follows: 73 are diocesan, 16 are religious, 10 are members of communities, 2 belong to societies of apostolic life, while the remaining 4 belong to “institutes referred to the old commission.” Ecclesia deiwhich they celebrate according to the Roman Missal of 1962 (before the reform of Vatican II).”
The mission of the Catholic priest in France
In a press conference, Bishop Bertrand Lacombe, Archbishop of Auch and member of the council for ordained ministers and lay people in ecclesial mission, highlighted two aspects that must be considered in the new priests:
1. The essential mission of the priest “in the Church and the meaning of this mission today, within an increasingly secularized French society.”
2. “The ongoing reflection of the bishops as well as the initiatives in the dioceses to raise vocations,” he added.
Addressing the new priests, the French prelate wished “a good ministry to the priests who respond to the spiritual expectations of our time: the adventure is worth it and gives light to the world.”
The CEF note also recalls that, according to the survey Catechumenate From this 2024, every year there are more young people and not so young people who want to receive Baptism, the Eucharist and Confirmation. The priests ordained this year must also serve them, who are also “children of their time.”
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.