Letter to the Editor

Sikorski's ordination set

Dear Friends:

Just want to let you know that the date for the priestly ordination of myself and 43 others has been set for December 24, here in Rome.

While I understand that with Christmas, it will not be possible for most of you to attend, I do want to ask you to remember me in a special way in your prayers on that day.

Be sure that each one of you will be in mine on the 24th and especially on the 25th, as I celebrate my first Mass.

Below are a few words from John Paul II about the priesthood.

Yours in Christ,
Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC

"I will give you shepherds after my own heart." (Jer. 3:15)

In these words from the prophet Jeremiah, God promises His people that He will never leave them without shepherds to gather them together and guide them: "I will set shepherds over them [my sheep] who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed." (Jer. 23:4)

Without priests the Church would not be able to live that fundamental obedience which is at the very heart of her existence and her mission in history, an obedience in response to the command of Christ: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations" (Mt. 28:19) and "Do this in remembrance of me" (Lk.22:19; cf. 1 Cor. 11:24), i.e., an obedience to the command to announce the Gospel and to renew daily the sacrifice of the giving of His body and the shedding of His blood for the life of the world.

Father Sikorsky is a former director of Defend Life.