{"id":11864,"date":"2025-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:20:34","slug":"pray-for-priests-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/parish-news\/pray-for-priests-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pray for Priests | May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Praying for those who pray for us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Below are the priests of our diocese for whom we are asked to pray daily.<\/em><\/strong>



Prayer:<\/em><\/strong>
Eternal Father, we lift up to You these and all the priests of the world. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You. In Jesus\u2019s name we pray. Amen<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 1<\/strong>
Rev. Lawrence Schaeper<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 2<\/strong>
Very Rev. Daniel Schomaker<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 3<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. John Schulte<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 4<\/strong>
Rev. Jesus Salinas, L.C.\u00a0ord. 2019<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 5<\/strong>
Rev. Harry Settle, Jr.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 6<\/strong>
Rev. Joey Shelton<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 7<\/strong>
Rev. Dean Stassel, L.C.<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 8<\/strong>
Very Rev. Ryan Stenger<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 9<\/strong>
Rev. John Sterling<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 10<\/strong>
Rev. Jacob Straub<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 1<\/strong>1
Rev. Mathew Summe<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 12<\/strong>
Rev. Berdinand Nicholas\u00a0ord. 2010<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 13<\/strong>
Rev. Susairaj Jesurajan, C.R\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 2007<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 14<\/strong>
Rev. Gregory Osburg\u00a0ord. 1977<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 15<\/strong>
Deceased priests of the Diocese of Covington<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 16<\/strong>
Most Rev. Roger Foys\u00a0ord. 1973
<\/a>Rev. Msgr. Roger Cooney\u00a0ord. 1970<\/a>
Rev. Martin Pitstick\u00a0ord. 2008<\/a>
Very Rev. Daniel Schomaker\u00a0ord. 2008<\/a>
Rev. Michael Black\u00a0ord. 2015<\/a>
Rev. Eric Boelscher\u00a0ord. 2015<\/a><\/em>
Rev. Andrew Young\u00a0ord. 2015<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 17<\/strong>
<\/a>Rev. Msgr. Daniel Vogelpohl\u00a0ord. 1975<\/em>
Rev. Jordan Hainsey\u00a0ord. 2020<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 18<\/strong>
Rev. Aby Thampi, C.M.I.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 19<\/strong>
Very Rev. Britton Hennessey\u00a0ord. 2017<\/a>
Rev. Ross Kelsch\u00a0ord. 2017<\/a>
Rev. Benton Clift\u00a0ord. 2018<\/a>
Rev. Joey Shelton\u00a0ord. 2018<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 20<\/strong>
Rev. David Gamm\u00a0ord. 1972<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 21<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Barth\u00a0ord. 1994<\/a>
Rev. Douglas Lauer\u00a0ord. 1994<\/a>
Rev. David Ludwig\u00a0ord. 2016<\/a>
Rev. Eric Andriot\u00a0ord. 2016<\/a>
Rev. Jason Bertke\u00a0ord. 2016<\/a>
Rev. Thomas Picchioni\u00a0ord. 2016<\/a>
Rev. James Schaeper\u00a0ord. 2016<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 22<\/strong>
Rev. Gregory Bach\u00a0ord. 1999<\/a>
Rev. Phillip DeVous\u00a0ord. 2004<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 23<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Greer\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 1981<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 24<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Comer\u00a0ord. 1980<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 25<\/strong>
Rev. John Sterling\u00a0ord. 1996<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 26<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. Gerald Twaddell<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 27<\/strong>
Rev. Jacob Varghese, V.C. (India)<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 28<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. Gilbert Rutz\u00a0ord. 1966<\/a>
Very Rev. Ryan Maher\u00a0ord. 2005<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 29<\/strong>
Rev. Maurice de Lange\u00a0 ord. 1971<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 30<\/strong>
Rev. James Quill\u00a0ord. 1953<\/a>
Rev. Albert Ruschman\u00a0ord. 1953<\/a>
Rev.\u00a0 Thomas Barnes\u00a0ord. 1987<\/a>
Rev. Matthew Cushing\u00a0ord. 2009<\/a>
Rev. Joshua Lange\u00a0ord. 2009<\/a>
Rev. Robert Rottgers\u00a0ord. 2009<\/a>
Rev. Lawrence Schaeper\u00a0ord. 2009<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 31<\/strong>
Rev. Paul Berschied\u00a0\u00a0 ord. 1986<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Please keep these Priests from our Diocese in your prayers during the month of May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,74],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news","category-pray-for-priests","tag-pray-for-priests"],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11872,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}