Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Thoughts on priesthood

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. - St. John Chrysostom

He made them, the vicars of his love. - St. Ambrose

We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.  -  Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

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