Sunday, June 27, 2010

THE CATHOLIC PRIEST



To live in the midst of the world
without wishing its pleasures:
To be a member of each family, yet
belonging to none:
To share all sufferings; to penetrate
all secrets; to heal all wounds;
To go from men to God and offer Him
their prayers;
To return from God to men to bring
pardon and hope;
To have a heart of fire re for charity and
a heart of bronze for chastity;
To teach and to pardon, console and
bless always.
My God, what a life!
And it is yours, Priest of Jesus
Christ!

Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
(French Dominican priest, 1802-1861