Man for Others

Fr Stanislaus, a Mill Hill Missionary priest from Congo: "When I was ordained a deacon, I was touched very much by words of admonition: "Receive the Gospel of Christ under whose head you are. Believe what you read, preach what you believe and put into practice what you preach." Those words really touched my heart and I took it as a challenge in my own life as someone dedicated to this vocation. By virtue of ordination I have joined a ministerial priesthood, I was made an ecclesial person and I understood that I have to become now an agent of Christ. .. In the process of my ministry I have learned to be a shepherd of the people and, in the words of Kasper, the priesthood is understood as a service towards Christ and so whoever does so becomes what he does, one who lives for others as Christ did. ..It is a privilege to celebrate the Eucharist, the sacrament of the Church, the sacrament which unites the people of God ..It is a blessing to be the channel through which the Lord offers humanity the food of eternal life, the sacrament of holiness, the medicine of immortality, according to the words of St Ignatius of Antioch." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Martin, from England: "Father Maurice lived in France in the 19th century and I have just finished reading the extraordinary correspondence he had with St Theresa of Lisieux. He was struggling both as a priest and as a Christian. He opened his heart to the Little Flower and she told him 'Confidence, nothing but confidence leads us to God's love.' She also gave him great courage by saying 'When we are in heaven, we shall share in the infinite mercy of the Lord.' " Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Jon, from England: "The sense of fatherhood dawned on me more powerfully when I was first given my parish after 5 years of ordination. After the first week-end of Sunday Masses the thought came to me very clearly and simply that I was able to feed these people with Jesus in the Eucharist. Just like a father would feed his family .. as a spiritual father I have done much the same thing in a spiritual way feeding them with Christ Himself to build them up and strengthen them for the week ahead ... We are called to be messengers of hope .. everybody needs a sense of hope ..the hope we are talking about is a hope rooted in Jesus, in his kingdom, in eternal life; it is a hope that is based on Jesus' death and resurrection. It is the surest, greatest, deepest hope we are going to ever come across and that should always inspire us and be part of the message we are passing on. I think that is vital as a priest." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr John, a Marist priest from New Zealand: "All through these 55 years there have been other priests who have inspired me. In my earlies years they were elderly priests, men who had born the burdens and the heats .. All of them were what I would call big men - big in mind, big in heart. A broadness about them that made them affable and friendly towards all. Wonderful priests. I retain these memories all my days, examples to me to live up to. Amen." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Runaine, a seminarian from South Africa: "Truly a man for others, his priesthood was characterised by his faithful witness to Jesus Christ, his faithfulness to the Holy Mass and the prayer of the Church, and his availability to God's people, day and night, in moments of joy and sorrow. Today I am aspiring to be a priest because of Father Sean's example of a priest being in the person of Christ." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Francis, from England: "A priest not only gives up things in his life, he receives consolations.. The greatest consolation is simply to offer the sacrifice of the Mass every day. Every time that I hold up the Host before communion and say 'This is the Lamb of God', these words are still as fresh and full of wonder as on the first day that I celebrated Mass on my own. The great thing is to have gratitude to God for one's vocation, every day." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Jacob June, a seminarian from Kenya: "All my life I have been meditating on the life of Cardinal Otunga - he lived a very simple life, a life of celibacy, of simplicity, the life of poverty, of obedience, and this really attracted me .. At seminary, he was a very humble and hardworking man. He was the first Cardinal in Kenya and was a man who lived life to the fullest.. He really fought for the injustices in Kenya. He really was very free and spoke clearly to the people, telling people now to shun all the injustices and that people should embrace love. His main work was 'Love your brother as you love yourselves'. And the most of the time in his life he would meditate on the scripture of John, chapter 17; that I pray the Christian prayer that all my brothers and sisters may be one, and that they may be consecrated in spirit and in truth." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Anish, a Mill Hill Missionary from India: "In my childhood I was an altar boy and I helped with the Eucharist. Seeing the life of the priest, especially my parish priest, the way he speaks, the way he was dealing with people, his way of life itself, was an inspiration to me. So when I was a child I decided, I had that desire in me, that I would like to become a priest." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Anthony, of the Society of Jesus, observes how he was inspired by his parish priest Father Clement Lloyd Russell and the Jesuit Fathers Cyril Martindale, George Walkerly and David Hoy. Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.

Fr Stan, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal from America, talks about Karol Woytyla: "Pope John Paul II, was and is an inspiration to me because he is a man who allowed God to let his humanity flourish and lead him into the depths of the mystery that God is and that is essentially love, to the point where, as he himself has said, it is love that has explained everything to him." Music by Mike Mangione. Visit Totus2us.com for more. Pope John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.