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Thursday, March 24, 2011

"Do beautiful churches produce vocations?"

Fr. Dwight Longenecker raises this question in a recent blog post.

The conclusion?
A beautiful church, that required great sacrifice to build, on the other hand--combined with beautiful liturgy and an awesome and reverent worship of God is more likely to inspire the reverence and awe and sacrifice required of our young people who are thinking about a vocation.

This is my theory: sacrifice much to build a beautiful church and you will find that your children will sacrifice much to become the priests, brothers and sisters to fill that church for a next generation.

Read it all here.

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