A Request from Fr. Michael Casagram 1/8/23
This morning I have thought to make a new request of
the LCG and this is to ask your prayer for new vocations
to our Gethsemani community. Some of you have probably
read the reports of various communities of our Order. These
reports were prepared for the last General Chapter of our
Order. Many of our Trappist/Cistercian Houses of both men
and women are experiencing a shortage of new vocations
which leads to the slow closing of their Houses.
So what I am going to ask of our LCG members is that you
please pray for new vocation to Our Lady of Gethsemani
community and to all those communities suffering from this
shortage.
This has been very much in my own prayer of the Divine Office
and the Eucharist in the past month but it occurred to me today
that I should ask all of you to please keep this intention in your
own prayer as well. We have been glad to share our charism
with all of you and new vocations right now are so important for keeping this Cistercian Charism alive, so please keep this in your prayer. Wishing you all a very blessed and joyous New Year, your
brother in Christ Jesus, Fr Michael