PRIESTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO MEET IN HOLY LAND

VATICAN CITY, APR 27, 1999 (VIS) - The Fourth International Meeting of Priests, organized by the Congregation for the Clergy in preparation for the Jubilee Year 2000, will take place in the Holy Land June 22-27, and will welcome priests from throughout the world.

The priests will meet from June 22 to 24 in Nazareth, and from June 25 to 27 in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. There are talks, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, individual confession and personal witnesses scheduled for the first three days. On June 25 and 26, there will be Masses and visits to holy places, and on Sunday, the 27th, there will be a solemn Mass with priestly ordinations.

Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, explains in an interview that these international meetings "are a strong exhortation for all the faithful, who are called to pray for the holiness of priests and for vocations to the priesthood: we cannot speak of the new evangelization without good priests."

Previous international meetings of priests took place in Fatima in 1996, in Yamoussoukro in 1997 and in Guadalupe in 1998.

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