January 26, 2024

Day of prayer for priestly vocations set for Feb. 9 at Indianapolis church

Father Michael Keucher, center, archdiocesan director of vocations, incenses the Blessed Sacrament on Aug. 3, 2022, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis during a Day of Prayer with St. John Vianney for priestly vocations. (File photo by Sean Gallagher)

Father Michael Keucher, center, archdiocesan director of vocations, incenses the Blessed Sacrament on Aug. 3, 2022, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis during a Day of Prayer with St. John Vianney for priestly vocations. (File photo by Sean Gallagher)

Criterion staff report

The archdiocesan Vocations Office is sponsoring a Day of Prayer with St. John Vianney for priestly vocations on Feb. 9 at St. John the Evangelist Church, 126 W. Georgia St., in Indianapolis.

Eucharistic adoration will take place from 7 a.m.-noon, with Benediction taking place at noon. The sacrament of penance will be available from 11 a.m.-noon.

The day of prayer will occur on the anniversary of the arrival of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, in the small southern French town of Ars in 1818, where he served as pastor until his death in 1859.

Hailed as a model for parish priests, St. John Vianney’s faithful priestly life and ministry led to many conversions in Ars where the faith had long been dormant before the saint’s arrival. He was also known as a tremendous confessor, spending many hours daily hearing confessions of people who flocked to Ars from across France to receive God’s mercy in the sacrament of penance from him.

A relic of St. John Vianney will be available for veneration during the day of prayer.

Father Michael Keucher, archdiocesan director of vocations, will be the principal celebrant of a Mass for vocations at 12:10 p.m.
 

(For more information on a vocation to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, visit HearGodsCall.com.) †

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