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Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia VOCATIONS, PASSION of HIS LIFE Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus Daughters of Divine Zeal Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia VOCATIONS, PASSION OF HIS LIFE Rome Index Introduction ....................................................................3 1. The World Day of Prayer for Vocations ....................5 2. The Role of Saint Hannibal M. Di Francia ................8 Introduction 3. An overwhelming inspiration ..................................10 4. Zeal or fixation? .......................................................13 “The problem of priestly vocations – and even both 5. Realization ...............................................................15 male and female religious vocations – is the fundamental a. The idea-resource .................................................16 problem of the Church. It is a test of its spiritual vitality b. The Sacred Alliance .............................................17 and the condition of such vitality. It is the condition of its c. The Pious Union of the Evangelical mission and of its development.”1 With these words John Rogation ..........................................................18 Paul II, in his homily on May 10, 1981, closed the 2nd International Congress for vocations. This was also the 6. The “workers of the harvest” ...................................20 belief that led Saint Hannibal M. Di Francia to spend his whole life for the cause of vocations. He wrote: “Imagine 7. Requests to Popes ....................................................22 for a moment that the Priesthood, like the setting sun, were a. Leo XIII ...............................................................22 turned off. Would not the whole world be in darkness? b. Pope Pius X .........................................................23 Where would be the worship of God, the sacraments, the c. Benedict XV.........................................................26 Most Holy Eucharist, the Word of God, Faith, Charity? All d. Pius XI .................................................................27 would perish. Imagine for a moment the opposite, i.e. that the Earth were full of elected Ministers of God, numerous Conclusion ...................................................................29 priests and saints; so numerous that they would correspond to one for every hundred inhabitants of the globe, so Holy Brief history .................................................................31 that they would equal the ancient Apostles: wouldn’t this be the sudden salvation and happiness of all souls, no one Bibliography ................................................................35 excepted? Inscrutable judgements of God! The Almighty 1 L’Osservatore Romano, Homily, May 10, 1981. 2 3 wanted to connect the abundance of worthy Workers of the mystical harvest to the prayer for obtaining it! He gave it as a command to the Apostles and the disciples, and he repeated several times saying: Messis multa quidem Operarii autem pauci: rogate ergo Dominum messis ut mittat Operarios in Messem suam.”2 “In this Divine Word that Jesus Christ ‘was saying’ is contained every good for the whole Holy Church, for the whole of society, for all souls.”3 And this divine word was the soul of the whole work of Di Francia, aimed at highlighting the primacy of prayer to obtain vocations. He wrote thus to the Bishop of Parma, Mons. Conforti: “One may The World Day of prayer for vocations note that ‘therefore – ergo.” It did not say ‘Ergo you work to form Priests’, ‘Ergo you gather money’ and others, but it said ‘Pray!’ What good can we hope for with all our efforts if we neglect the great remedy pointed out to us by our Lord The invitation of Jesus, Pray therefore the Lord of Jesus Christ?”4 However, as a concrete human being, Saint the harvest to send workers into his harvest (Mt 9.39), Hannibal urged everyone to join action with prayer in order implemented mainly in the form of prayer for the to achieve the desired effect: “One should observe that in the sanctification of the clergy, from 1920 onwards can be found order established by Providence, prayer and action must go in several books of some prominent figures of the Church and together to have their effect. To pray to the Lord to send good bishops, from one end to another of the Catholic world. Of evangelical workers and then not cooperating as one could course, in this respect, it is acknowledged even in the Papal and should is to pray in vain. Conversely, to work for the Magisterium that has addressed with increasing frequency formation of priests and not to accompany it with prayer, is the invitation to pray for vocations. work lost. To desire to form priests without asking the Lord Pius XI in his Encyclical “Ad Catholici Sacerdotii» is the same as being reduced to an artificial culture of clerics. insisted forcefully on the need to use the great means of The grace of vocation comes down from above, and it does prayer to get the gift of vocations.6 not come down if no one asks.”5 In the light of these brief However, one who actually indicated the heart of the introductory reflections we can synthesize thus the spiritual problem of vocations, from which sprang the Montinian profile of Di Francia: the lack of good vocations was his fruit of the World Days, was Pius XII. Firstly, he, with the agony, their promotion his passion and the propagation of Motu Proprio “Cum nobis” on 4 November 1941 constituted the prayer to obtain them his obsession. the Pontifical Society for ecclesiastical vocations, to which he entrusted the task of promoting the prayer for priestly 6 AAS 28 (1935), 37-52. The same Pope had also treated the problem in the 2 Scritti, vol 3, pag 59. Apostolic Letter «Officiorum omnium» dated August 1, 1922 (AAS 14 [1922], 3 Scritti, vol 2, pag 305-306. 449 ff.; in in another correspondence, cfr. AAS 15 (1923), 348-349; 19 (1927), 4 Scritti, vol 29, pag 89. 135; Messages of the Pope for the World Day, cit., 8. 5 Scritti, vol 3, pag 40. 4 5 vocations in all parts of the world,7 and, then, with the a single throb of prayer numerous arrays of Catholics around Apostolic Exhortation “Menti nostrae” on September 23, the world, to invoke from the Lord workers needed for his 1950, he urged the bishops to take care of the problem of harvest. And in order that this world day of prayer for priestly vocation precisely because it is “intimately connected with and religious vocations have the resonance that it deserves, the future of the Church” and he exhorted the faithful to we wanted to address Our encouraging Word to all our most make use of the humble and trustful prayer commanded beloved children, so that none would be remiss regarding a by Jesus (Luke 10: 2) as “the surest way to have numerous duty so serious and sensible.”10 vocations.”8 In the opinion of accredited scholars of Paul VI, it seems John XXIII was also along this line, and, in addition to there were no particular contingent to urge the Pope to take numerous interventions on the topic of vocations, through such an initiative, if not a concretization of the concern of his the Pontifical Society for ecclesiastical vocations, he urged whole life, present since the years in which he worked in the the institution for Italy of “National Day for ecclesiastical Secretariat of State (1937-1954) and even more so during vocations.”9 The Pope’s dream was to extend the proposal the period in which he was Archbishop of Milan (1955- to various Episcopal Conferences so that the initiative 1963). Certainly, the datas he was receiving regarding the would reach a level of harmony throughout the Christian problem of vocations were daunting. With the institution of world, something in fact that took on a unified form with a World Day, however, Paul VI did not want to touch only his successor. Indeed, after just seven months of Pontificate, the problem but highlight it permanently. One should not Pope Paul VI, on a Saturday, April 11, 1964, the eve of miss the fact that the initiative arose fully in council climate, the second Sunday after Easter, called the good Shepherd after the promulgation of the constitution on the Liturgy Sunday, addressed the faithful throughout the world, with a “Sacrosanctum Concilium”, which placed the liturgical radio message, saying: “’Pray the Lord of the harvest to send prayer at the heart of Christian life. workers to his Church (cf.. Mt 9: 38) (…) From the soul may The first World Day of Prayer for Vocations was the heartfelt invocation to the Lord spring out, according to celebrated, then, on April 12, 1964, but, even if loaded with Christ’s invitation. Yes, today as in the past, “the harvest is theological sense, had no great resonance, indeed for many plentiful, but the workers are few” (Mt 9: 37) (…) Therefore, Christian communities it passed almost unnoticed. Gradually, may this Sunday, which, in the Roman Liturgy takes from over the next few years, thanks to the forceful action of some the Gospel the name of the good Shepherd, see merged into religious congregations including the Rogationists and the Daughters of Divine Zeal, it has attracted attention until 7 AAS 33 (1941), n. 13, p. 479. 8 AAS 42 (1950), 617-702. See also the Encyclical «Mystici Corporis» of its insertion in relevant form in the pastoral activity of the June 29, 1943 (AAS 35 [1943], 242). Catholic Church. 9 Cfr. Dompieri G., Giornate sacerdotali, per le vocazioni, per il Seminario, The World Day of Prayer for Vocations is undoubtedly Esperienze circa le vocazioni ecclesiastiche, in Seminarium 12, 1 (1961), 96-102; Idem, Giornate diocesane e parrocchiali, Esperienze sulle vocazioni to be considered first fruits of the Montinian pontificate, ecclesiastiche. Primo Congresso nazionale italiano, in Seminarium 12, 2 culmination of a path of the Magisterium which was started (1961), 275-280. The initiative has been regularly repeated in 1962 and 1963, years before. see also Celebrazione della Seconda Giornata nazionale per le Vocazioni in Italia, Pontificia Opera per le Vocazioni, in Seminarium 15, 2 (1963), 305- 10 Teachings of Paul VI, II, Città del Vaticano, LEV, 1964, 240-242.
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