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Dear Fr. Z-
Congratulations on the occasion of your anniversary. Mass and prayers offered for you. Ad multos annos!
Peace.
Happy Anniversary. Thank you for being a priest.
Congratulations on the anniversary of your ordination! I will also be celebrating 18 years with my husband in a couple of months.
What a bittersweet pleasure to see Pope John Paul II looking and sounding so strong. One does forget . . .
Fr. Z,
Ad multo annos! Your sacrifices and prayers are much appreciated and very necessary in this tumultuous time. Many thanks for all that you’ve done and continue to do.
Yes. ‘Was thinking Fr. Corapi as well.
Ad multos annos, Fr. Z!
Happy Anniversary! I will offer my Holy Communion for you tomorrow, in gratitude for your vocation and for all the graces you need as well as for your intentions.
The 28th of May is my anniversary of baptism and Holy Communion in 1988.
Pierre-Andre Dumas, currently bishop of Anse-a-Veau et Miragoane, Haiti?
Tim: He also. But I have not met him since.
Happy Anniversar, Father! Ad multos et faustissimos annos! God bless you, and grant you a long and fruitful life.
May God bless the day, you have been a help to me in many ways, more than you may even realize, just knowing that there was someone like you out there in my time of need, was a blessing. May God Bless You and help you continue to touch people like me for many years to come. Things are getting better for me, and my family, and my blog has been an outlet for my frustrations :)
Thanks for sharing Fr. Z. Ad multos annos
Ad multos annos, Fr. Z! And I hope you’re a priest for many years more too!! ;)
God bless you, Father. You know how many of us are grateful for your vocation and what you have done with it. From me also, Ad multos annos. I will offer a spiritual bouquet of fifteen decades of the Rosary for your intentions.
Congratulations on your anniversary! God bless you, thank you for being a priest.
And congratulations, Father. My knowledge of and appreciation for the liturgy have improved considerably since I began frequenting your site.
Happy anniversary. Ad multos annos!
God bless you, Father Z, on this wonderful Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary, Father!
Thank you for answering the call, Father! Happy Anniversary!
Deo Gratias! Ad multos annos!
From your digital diocese, happy anniversary.
Congratulations and many blessings, Father Z!! You have been a voice of sanity and clarity in a crazy, mixed up period of Church history. Thank you!
Ad multos annos, Father Z! Thank you for answering the Lord’s call.
God bless you Fr. Z.
Congratulations!!!! The slide show would not play for me so I will just imagine…
Thanks for the greetings for the anniversary! Pray for the priests ordained on the same day.
In addition to Fr Corapi, SOLT, also another great Priest and Missionary, Fr Tony Anderson, SOLT
Congrats!
We know what Corapi did prior to ordination. What did you do?
Happy Anniversary, Father! May God bless you with many more years.
Happy anniversary, Father, and thank you for all you do.
Ad multos annos!
Better late than never, was out of town and off the grid!
Axios! Axios! Axios!
Here’s to the next 18 years! You and all priests are in my prayers. It is too easy to forget that you priests give your lives for us, and the Church.
Happy Anniversary, Father Z! You have my prayers… And thank you…
Congratulations and many happy years!
Thank you, Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations, Father, and adding my own “ad multos annos”.
I like to brag that I met Fr. Corapi before he became famous, in the year following his ordination, I believe, when he happened to offer the Holy Sacrifice at St Anthony’s Monastery, Kennebunkport, ME, where I went to Mass while vacationing that year. I spoke to him afterwards and was really captivated by him. It was also the first time I had heard of SOLT, even though living here in Houston, just up the road.
Our parish priest is celebrating his 26th anniversary this week. Is that a coincidence or do ordinations typically take place between the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost?
Ad multos annos!
Happy anniversary Father. God bless you and all the priests.
Many congratulations on your anniversary. Ad multos annos!
ad multos annos!
Congratulations Father Z on your anniversary. And grateful thanks for all the work you do in cyber space. Thank you also for sharing the video with us.
The Hands of the Priest
We need them in life’s early morning.
We need them again at its close.
We feel their warm clasp of true friendship.
We seek them when tasting life’s woes.
When we come to this world we are sinful,
The greatest as well as the least
And the hand that makes us as pure as angels
Is the beautiful hand of the priest.
And when we are tempted to wander,
To the pathways of shame and of sin
Tis the hand of the priest will absolve us,
Not once, but again, and again.
And when we are taking life’s partner,
Other hands may prepare us a feast,
But the hand that will bless and unite us
Is the beautiful hand of the Priest.
At the Altar each day we behold them.
And the hands of a King on this throne
Are not equal to them in their greatness
Their dignity stands all alone.
For there in the stillness of morning
‘Ere the sun has emerged from the East
Our God rests between pure fingers
Of the beautiful hands of the Priest.
May God bless and keep them all holy.
For the Host which their fingers caress.
What can a poor sinner do better
Than to ask him, who chose them, to bless.
And when death dews on our eyelids are falling
May our courage and strength be increased
By seeing raised over us in blessing
The beautiful hands of the Priest.
From a prayer card published in England by the Carmelite Press some 45 years ago.
Congratulations, Fr. Z., on the anniversary of your ordination. Thank you for having answered the call. May God bless you with a long life in his service.
Fr,
Ad multos annos!
You are a mirror of Christ’s light in these dark times. God bless you and your good work. Also many blessings for those ordained together with you.
Pace e bene,
Alina ofs
Congrats, Fr. Z. As a member of your virtual parish, I thank you for answering the call.
Happy Anniversary, may God bless you and all Priests.
Happy anniversary and may God bless you!
Ad Multos Annos!
Semper Fi!
Congatulations and Happy Anniversary, Perhaps one day you could blog your feelings and emotions that day. Also what were yur expectations and what were your surprises along the way..Also what has changed since your ordination. I bet it would be an interesting post into the life of an inspirational Priest and would get many to think about a vocation..Ad Multos Annos Father.
Congratulations to the Glenn Beck of the blogosphere!
Father Z,
Congratulations from Brazil! Eighteen years fully serving the Lord!I’ve been following your blog for some time now. It is enlightening for us even miles abroad!
A belated congratulations on your ordination anniversary, Fr. Z!
Isn’t that cool-you and Fr. Corapi being ordained by John Paul II on the same day! And Mother Teresa was there, too!
We of your ‘virtual parish’ love you-and all priests, too!
My priest-friend from England, Fr. Kevin Foulkes, will be celebrating his 27th anniversary this coming Sunday (Pentecost). It was the exact same day that he was ordained by JP II in 1982, the last day of the Holy Father’s visit to Britain!
FrZ, this video is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it. Prayers for all of those ordained with you as well. Please send your little flock a virtual blessing :)
Thank you for answering the call of the Holy Spirit. Continued prayers for you and all of our devoted and selfless priests.
Fr. Z
Congratulations on 18 years in His priesthood. May He grant you many more years.
A couple of questions if I may:
When did it hit you that you were really a priest? And,
Was your family present at your ordination?
Fr. Z,
Tanti Auguri
Davido
Congratulations, Fr. Z! Ad multos annos! Thank you for being a priest, and thank you for all you do… I have learned a lot from you over the years (blog and AFQB).
Herr Vater Z.
“Gott sei dank” for your Priesthood!
Anton
I was one of the deacons at that Mass (a diocesan brother was being ordained). Ad multos annos, Fr Z, and more power to your cyber pen!
I agree with Mitchell NY. That would be a fascinating post.
I didn’t see Cardinal Ratzinger there. You would have had two popes at your ordination.
Congratulations.
Happy Priestly Anniversary Father. May you have continued blessing upon your ministry.
Ad moltos annos and tanti aguri!
Your brothers here in Kalamazoo rejoice in your effective and holy priesthood and pray God bless and increase your efforts for his glory!
In Christ and St. Philip,
Fr. Robert Sirico and Community
Ad multos annos, Fr. Z. May God bless you and your work. I’ll offer my Mass and communion for your intentions tomorrow. May you be richly blessed as you continue to work for the Lord.
Happy anniversary Father! Ad multos annos!
Dear Fr Z,
Thank you for accepting God’s call to the Priesthood. You are in my prayers.HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!
Thank you for your teachings and clarifications on the Catholic Moral Teachings.
We learn more from HOLY priests than from POPULAR secular priests. Love and prayers from your virtual parishioners. God bless you.
Happy anniversary Fr. Z!
May God continue to bless you in your many ministries, your service to Him, the Church, and to lucky us!
My prayers are yours.
Grace and peace.
Congratulations! You are in my prayers.
Happy Anniversary Fr. Z! May your heart grow large enough to break some ribs!
Happy Anniversary Father. Thank you for your gift to us.
God bless you on this happy anniversary day.
May you continue to lead many souls to their
eternal destiny in heaven. Thanks for saying yes to Jesus’ call.
Ad multos annos, Father! I’ll pray for your intentions at Adoration this evening.
God bless you, Father, and thank you for ALL you do – everything Catholic, and beautiful bird photos also that make me smile!
Fr. Z,
Congratulations on your anniversary. May the Lord continue blessing you and all you do.
Our Lady of Sheshan pray for us.
Congratulations, Father! Ad multos annos! You have done so very much for so many of us and many whom you will not know in this life.
Dear Father Z,
As so many others have said, on this special day “ad multos annos!”
Thank you for answering the Call.
Please continue your noble work.
God Bless!
David.
God bless you Father Z!
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! I daily pray for you and, indeed, for all priests for all the sacrifices that you have made for all of us.
For Fr. Z and for all priests:
Keep them; I pray Thee, dearest Lord.
Keep them, for they are Thine
The priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them, for they are in the world,
Though from the world apart.
When earthly pleasures tempt, allure-
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain,
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them and remember, Lord,
they have no one but Thee.
Yet, they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily they caress;
Their every thought and word and deed,
Deign, dearest Lord, to bless.
John Joseph Cardinal Carberry (+1998 )
Archbishop of St. Louis (1968-1979)
Bishop of Columbus (1965-1968 )
Bishop of Lafayette-in-Indiana (1957-1965)
Happy Anniversary, Fr. Z! Thank you for all you do for us and for the Church.
Congratulations on your anniversary!
Congratulations for the anniversary, Father.
Ad multos annos!
Congratulations Father. Ad Multos Annos
Oremus pro invicem.
I am out of the loop for two days and I miss the anniversary of your ordination, Father Z! I wish I had a chance to have read/watched this on Monday. Happy belated anniversary, you are always in my prayers!
And, thanks to everyone who posts their opinions, experiences, information and advice on this blog. I have learned quite a bit about current Church events, articles to read, books to read, topics of debate to think about, not to mention all that has come up about the Liturgy! All of this has brought me closer to Christ and I am truly thankful to you for all of that.
Dear Fr. Z: Awesome news! Congratulations Father. I was privileged to attend a 50th priestly anniversary 2 weeks ago and I will be going to another 50th priestly anniversary mid-June, both in Oakland, CA, both Dominican Friars (dogs of the Lord), both friends of a lifetime. I wish you the same faithfulness and longevity. Whenever I am asked who is my pastor, I answer, I have 2: Fr. CW and Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, but only Fr. Zuhlsdorf passes along useful culinary tips. Ad multos annos. I hope your red ink never runs dry.
I’m late to the party but I just want to add my thanks and congratulations as well. Your work is a blessing to us all.
Happy Anniversary