Office of the Episcopal Commission on Clergy
November 5, 2018
Your Eminencies & Excellencies:
Greetings of Peace!
The Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons is over. We are grateful to Your Excellency (Eminence) for your cooperation in celebrating this year’s activities. May this year continue to set us on fire despite the many weaknesses we encounter along the way. Let us continuously renew ourselves as renewed servant leaders of communion.
Herewith, please find a copy of the Closing Prayer for the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons. We propose the following dates for your consideration:
- November 25, 2018 Solemnity of Christ the King, closing ceremony or liturgy where the prayer for the Clergy and Consecrated Persons.
- December 02, 2018 Opening of the Year of the Youth.
Let us accompany our young people through our life’s witnessing as renewed Servant-Leaders of communion for the New Evangelization. Let us guide and give them inspiration so that they could live and respond to the call of Jesus through their mission in loving service.
Together with our Blessed Mother, Mary Star of the New Evangelization, let us be agents of transformation in our country and in the world.
Episcopal Commission on Clergy (ECCler)
Episcopal Commission on Mutual Relations between Bishops and Religious (ECMR)
Episcopal Commission on Seminaries (ECS)
Episcopal Commission on Vocations (ECV)
Prayer for the Closing of the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons
O God Most Loving Father, you called us to be fully and ever united to You and with one another as members of the One Body of Christ. In Jesus, your Son, we confidently move forward in tPrayerhe spirit of collaboration and co-responsibility journeying as one family in faith, hope and love.
As we close this Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons, we thank You for the gift of their vocation from and for Your People. Pardon them in their weaknesses. Guide, strengthen, protect and embrace them to persevere in their continuous personal conversion. May they always become humble bearers of the Gospel of Your love through their joyful service, suffering and sacrifice.
As we welcome the Year of the Youth, May all of us be renewed Servant-Leaders of communion for the New Evangelization. Make us gracious in affirming the beauty and giftedness of the Filipino youth.
Encourage us to accompany the young to fulfill their mission in loving service. With Mary, Star of the New Evangelization, may we continue to be agents of transformation in our country and in the world.
Amen.
