Rekindle the Gift of God

ebook A Handbook for Priestly Life

By Roch A. Kereszty

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Drawing on fifty-nine years of experience as a Catholic priest, Fr. Kereszty provides spiritual, psychological, and pastoral guidance to priests, deacons and seminarians for preaching, sacramental ministry and spiritual direction.

He has worked with countless priests struggling to understand their own role and identity in the post-conciliar Church with the laity taking on more leadership and responsibilities. He has also dealt with the confusion and discouragement from the sexual abuse crisis, though a very small percentage of priests, that left many young men wondering "Why join a system in which everyone is suspect?"

He uses the insights of St. Bernard, St. Therese of Lisieux, Popes St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI to assist the next generations of priests by accomplishing the following in this book:

  • explores the signs and development of priestly and diaconal vocations
  • gives advice on preaching, on the ways to prepare for adult baptism, and on the instruction of the parents and godparents for the baptism of a child.
  • shows how all the activities of the Church find their fulfillment in the celebration of the Eucharist and how our sincere participation in the Eucharist is manifested in our daily lives
  • advice on how to help the different kinds of confessants in the sacrament of reconciliation: children, adolescents, young adults, the old and dying, returning "lost sheep," genuine holy souls, the scrupulous, porn addicts, homosexuals
  • guidance on marriage preparation, and the different problems in the stages of married life, including reasons for the Church's teaching on contraception
  • advice to priests on their important role in spiritual direction

    His desire is that this book will re-ignite the great gift that priests have received in ordination, and to communicate his own immense joy and gratitude for that gift. Lastly, he tells all priests: to have a happy priestly life, strive to be a true priest of Jesus Christ in service to his flock.

  • Rekindle the Gift of God