- steadily increasing demands on their time
- new and complex pastoral needs stemming from a diverse and secularized society
- often having to live and work alone, surrounded by a culture hostile to the priestly vocation
ePriest's three services to today's parish priests
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weekly best practices
- profiles of practices that are currently working in real parishes
- touching all sectors of parish life: sacraments, outreach, faith formation, family, youth, vocation promotion, administration and finance, and ongoing priestly formation
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weekly homily packs
- ingredients for effective homilies
- preaching tips
- ready-made Spanish-language homilies
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an online community
- where English-speaking priests from around the world can exchange ideas, experiences, and encouragement
ePriest is an outreach of Sacerdos Institute, an apostolate serving priests in union with the Church throughout the world.
ePriest's ideal is to be A Resource for Catholic Priests, dedicated to loving Christ, building the Church, and serving people.
- Director: Fr. Alex Yeung, LC, Ph L
- Editor–in–Chief: Francisco Rueda
- Homily Packs author: Fr. John Bartunek, LC, STL
- ePriest Best Practice Coordinators: Jeffrey and Paula Kral
ePriest is operated by a team of lay professionals who are members of the Regnum Christi Movement, and is supported by a network of diocesan priests who provide ongoing evaluation and input. The diocesan priest advisory committee presently consists of the following members:
- Rev. Msgr. Thomas Caserta, Office for the Ministry and Life of Priests, Diocese of Brooklyn, NY
- Rev. Dave Heney, Pastor, St Paschal Baylon Parish, Thousand Oaks, CA, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
- Rev. Richard A. Mullins, Director of Multicultural Ministries, Diocese of Arlington
- Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, Vicar General, Archdiocese of Indianapolis
- Rev. Jonathan (Jay) Toborowsky, Associate Pastor, St. Mary Church, Alpha, NJ, Diocese of Metuchen
- Rev. Msgr. Chad Wilhelm, Rector, St. Mary Cathedral, Fargo, ND, Diocese of Fargo