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Pray the Collect for the solemnity of the Assumption

Come to Mary, refuge of sinners, asking for the conversion of heart of someone in need.

Greet your mother as the Holy Queen of Heaven

Praise God in the words of Mary

St John Vianney grew up during the French Revolution, when priests and the faithful were heavily persecuted. He saw the priests who continued their ministry in these dangerous times as heroes and wanted to be one of them. Three years after his own ordination, he was appointed parish priest of Ars, where he immediately devoted himself to the care of his parishioners.

In the long history of the Church, one priestly figure – a pastoral priest – has been uniquely raised up to exemplify the spiritual path every priest is to walk in his pastoral service. No other saint has ever been so proposed to priests by successive popes as an “incomparable guide and unequalled model both for the carrying out of the ministry and of the holiness of the minister.”