Guest Blog - From Vultus Christi - Listen My Priests!
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From time to time, it is my privilege to share the powerful exhortations posted on Vultus Christi by Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, O.S.B. - intended to re-ignite a passionate love for the Eucharist in all of us, and most particularly in his brother priests.
Father is the Prior of the Benedictine Monks of Perpetual Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar at Silverstream Monastery, whose website describes their community as follows:
"Under the patronage
of Our Lady of the Cenacle, the
monks of Silverstream Priory devote themselves to the worthy celebration of the
Sacred Liturgy (which St
Benedict called the Opus Dei, or "Work of God"), in its
age-old classical forms and to perpetual adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament
of the Altar, the Eucharistic
Face of Christ, in a spirit of reparation. Their life of
praise and adoration is marked by a heartfelt solicitude for the sanctification
of priests."
[Consider helping Father’s efforts bear even
greater fruit by printing a copy of this reflection and giving it to your priests.
May I also encourage you to consider a financial contribution to his community?]
And now the reflection:
Listen My Priest!
Leave aside the things
that distract you from Me.
I am the One Thing Necessary to you
in this life.
Save your eyes, your ears,
your mouth, your hands, and your heart,
your whole being for Me,
and I will unite you to Myself.
that distract you from Me.
I am the One Thing Necessary to you
in this life.
Save your eyes, your ears,
your mouth, your hands, and your heart,
your whole being for Me,
and I will unite you to Myself.