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Mass for the Saint John Paul II Shepherds Guild

December 21, 2024
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas

II Timothy 4:1-5
Psalm 40:2 and 4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11
Matthew 5:13-19

“Here I am Lord, I come to do your will.” We have just prayed this responsorial psalm together in union with the whole Church for our own lives as disciples and for our priests and for those in discernment and formation for a priestly vocation. To do the Lord’s will is the summation of any vocation rooted in Baptism but in a particular way the priestly vocation which is so intrinsic to fostering the fidelity of all of the baptized to the call of the Lord, that each may fulfill their response to God’s call with accountability to their promise, “Here I am Lord, I come to do your will.”