Fourth Week of Easter

On Saturday, May 1, the Portsmouth community will welcome into its novitiate a new member, Jonathan Piette. Jonathan tells us a little about the journey that led him to the Abbey.

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The Fourth Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday, directs us to Christ the Good Shepherd, and calls the church to prayer for pastoral leaders. The message of vocation takes on added significance for us at Portsmouth this week, a week that begins with this global prayer for vocations and ends with the celebration of Saint Joseph. Saturday, May 1, commemorating Joseph the Worker, is also the National Day of Religious Brothers. This confluence of feasts adds to our joy and to reinforces our prayer as we gain a brother, adding a novice to the Portsmouth community.

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This week of the Good Shepherd, and this Sunday’s World Day of Prayer for Vocations, seek to prompt reflection on vocation. The experience of faith is, in sum, an experience of vocation. And this is expressed in the first and thematic word with which Saint Benedict famously opens his Rule: “obsculta”: listen attentively.

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