Vatican II In A Year Day 282: PO 10: Shared mission of all priests
Oct 9, 2025
In today's discussion, the focus is on the universal mission of priests and how ordination prepares them to minister across cultures and times. The need for updating incardination norms for modern pastoral needs is addressed, alongside an explanation of priests' roles in various missionary structures like prelatures and vicariates. The importance of facilitating easier transfers for priests to areas in need is highlighted, while the idea of sending priests in teams, trained in local languages and cultures, is strongly advocated.
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Priesthood Is Inherently Universal
- Ordination configures priests for a universal mission that has no limits of blood, nationality, or time.
- Priests must care for all the churches, not only their local community.
Facilitate Priests Moving To Mission Areas
- Encourage priests from vocations-rich dioceses to volunteer for missions with their ordinary's permission.
- Simplify excardination/incardination and create international seminaries, personal prelatures, or vicariates to meet pastoral needs.
Cancun Example Of A Mission Growing Into A Diocese
- Fr. Matthew used the Legionaries' work in Chechumal/Cancun to show how a prelature can mature into a diocese.
- Missions can grow from tiny fishing villages into full dioceses as local clergy develop.