Showing posts with label Prayers. Show all posts
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St. John Vianney and Our Priests

[The following post was originally published  in 2013]

Tomorrow, we will commemorate the feast day of St. John Marie Vianney - the patron Saint for parish priests.

This holy priest loved the Eucharist. He knew that all of us - priests, religious and laity - had to make It the center of our daily existence.  Here are samples of his wisdom.

"There is nothing, so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us."


"We ought to visit him [Jesus in the Holy Eucharist] often.  How dear to Him is a quarter of an hour spared from our occupations or from some useless employment, to come and pray to Him, visit Him, and console Him for all the ingratitude He receives!  When He sees poor souls hurrying to Him, He smiles at them.  They come with that simplicity which pleases Him so much, to ask pardon for all sinners, and for the insults of so many who are ungrateful."

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