Priesthood Sunday is the perfect opportunity to guide students and parents to show their priest’s appreciation. This can take a variety of forms from a note or prayer to a more complicated reception for all. No matter the form, assuring the priests of the loving care and gratitude of the students will stay with him long after Priesthood Sunday is over.

Ideas

1. Ask your priest ahead of time to fill out the Get to Know Your Priest Questionnaire in Phase I to know what he would like best. Share his answers in newsletter blurbs leading up to this day or share them all at once on a science fair board at a Priesthood Sunday reception.
2. Encourage students and parents to pray for your priest. There are hundreds of ways to do this, but below is a prayer card designed for this day.
3. Coordinate a coffee cake reception following the school Mass
4. Offer an essay, poster, or poetry contest on this or similar topic: “Why Fr. _____ is so amazing!”
5. Include the Priesthood Sunday banner in front of the school or a Priesthood Sunday Poster
6. Download our new Vocation Day Display—an editable Canva resource for schools to showcase vocation-themed announcements on their screens or classroom TVs.
7. Include a biography of your priest in the newsletter
8. Have everyone sign a card for your priest that can be downloaded below. Each class may want its own BIG card. Then, display them at the donut and coffee reception.
9. Coordinate a Prayer Drive for Priests, where students and parents sign up to pray for their priest, using the downloads below.
10. Gather a picture of when your priest(s) was younger and share it with your students and parents in various ways.
11. Ask students to write a note of thanks to the priest on the Dear Father Letter below.