Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese REPORT3 Aug 2012 Four priests were ordained by Cardinal Pell in 2009, the largest number in more than a decade Vocation Sunday this weekend marks the start of National Vocations Awareness Week and for the Archdiocese of Sydney there is good reason to celebrate.Tomorrow, 4 August, eight men from two city seminaries will be ordained into the priesthood by the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell. This brings the number of priests who have been ordained by His Eminence at St Mary’s Cathedral since Sydney’s World Youth Day in 2008 to 23.At the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Homebush the numbers are even more impressive when seminarians from other countries who chose to be ordained by their local prelates are taken into account.”Over the past six years there have been 38 ordinations of our seminarians,” says Rector of the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Father Anthony Percy.

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CATHOLIC NEWS WORLD : SUNDAY AUGUST 5, 2012