{"id":23862,"date":"2021-03-20T12:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/2021\/03\/20\/non-categorise\/reverend-father-joseph-hercule-50-years-of-priesthood\/"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:01:25","slug":"reverend-father-joseph-hercule-50-years-of-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/2021\/03\/20\/religion-en\/reverend-father-joseph-hercule-50-years-of-priesthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Father Joseph Hercule: 50 years of Priesthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 2021 marks Reverend Father Joseph Hercule’s jubilee of service. For the occasion, a whole series of activities are planned. This year, the anniversary coincides with the feast of Saint Joseph de L’Asile. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

His dream has always been to become a priest and serve God. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Winner of his graduating class at Lyc\u00e9e Alexandre P\u00e9tion, young Hercule was accepted at the major seminary in Port-au-Prince, without having taken the entrance exams. He is a former “enfant de coeur” at the Saint Antoine de Vieux Bourg parish and a member of the church choir. His family has always advised him to take the priestly path. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Persecuted by dictator Francois Duvalier, the Jesuits of the congregation to which the seminarian belonged were forced to leave the country. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1971, Hercule was ordained a transitional deacon for a period of one month. The same year, he was ordained “Priest” at Notre Dame des Cayes Cathedral by Monseigneur Goin, Bishop of Les Cayes at the time. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Priest in 8 parishes, currently retired at Saint Joseph de L’Asile parish since 2014, priest Joseph Hercule also served at Sainte C\u00e9cile de Plich\u00e9 parish between 1975 and 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between 1978 and 1988, he was parish priest at Saint Jean Du Sud parish. From July 1988 to March 1997, he was parish priest at Saint Anne de L’Anse \u00e0 <\/span>Calf. At the parish of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, <\/span>He headed it between 1997 and 2005. Between October 2005 and August 2009, Father Hercule was appointed parish priest at Saint Francois Exavier parish in Fond des Blancs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, he was appointed to St Joseph’s parish in Torbeck, leaving in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

And finally, before retiring, he served God at Saint Michel des Nippes parish between 2010 and 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the Reverend says he is grateful to the Lord for allowing him to remain faithful to the ministry all these years. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In robust health, the octogenarian still conducts masses, baptisms and sometimes funerals. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To young people aspiring to become priests, Hercules recommends putting their vocations to the test by exercising their faith.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year 2021 marks Reverend Father Joseph Hercule’s jubilee of service. For the occasion, a whole series of activities are planned. This year, the anniversary coincides with the feast of Saint Joseph de L’Asile. His dream has always been to become a priest and serve God. Winner of his graduating class at Lyc\u00e9e Alexandre P\u00e9tion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alerte24.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}