Priest's
Corner - World Priest Day
World Priest Day Suggestions
WPD Web Site
World Priest Day
Encountered Couple & Family Suggestions
1. Send a card to your parish priest or bishop
telling them what their sacrament and/or friendship means to you.
2. Introduce yourself and family to your priest
or bishop you have not met.
3. Invite a priest or bishop you know, or do not
know, to breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
4. If you invite them to dinner, you may make it
a candle-lighted dinner with china, linens, and maybe soft music.
Be creative! Kids could be included in this too! Let the kids help
set the table and prepare for his arrival. Or make it a down home
barbecue or something unique and special to your family
5. Send them flowers or a balloon bouquet.
6. Invite them on a family picnic and pick them
up if possible.
7. If you know a priest or bishop out of town,
give them a call, send a note, flowers, balloon bouquet.
8. Bake them cookies, etc. (Kids love to get involved).
9. Have the kids color them a picture or write
them a letter.
10. Invite them to your home.
11. Go on an outing together, such as a dinner
and a play, bowling, movie, hunting, fishing, golf, tennis, etc.
12. Cook together in the kitchen.
13. Be creative and have fun with this special
event. Let us know what you dreamed up to honor our priests.
14. Purchase WPD gift items (coffee mugs, pens,
note cards) place them in a decorative basket with a note from you
and deliver it to your priest.
Remember seminarians and order priests as well as the diocesan
priests.
Visit the World
Priest Day web site for additional suggestions.
Click
here for a printable page (PDF, 74KB)
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