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Dear Saint John Vianney, your childhood dream was to be a Priest, to win souls for God. You endured years of toil and humiliation to attain the Priesthood. You became a Priest truly after Godʼs own heart, outstanding in humility and poverty; prayer and mortification. Totally devoted to the service of Godʼs people.

The Church has exalted you as model and patron saint of all Parish Priest, trusting that your example and prayers will help them to live up to the high dignity of their vocation to be faithful servants of Godʼs people, to be perfect imitators of Christ the Savior Who came not to be served but to serve, to give His Life in ransom for many.

Pray that God may give to His Church today many more Priests after His own Heart. Pray for all the Priests under your patronage, that they may be worthy representatives of Christ the Good Shepherd. May they wholeheartedly devote themselves to prayer and penance; be examples of humility and poverty; shining models of holiness; tireless and powerful preachers of the Word of God; zealous dispensers of Godʼs Grace in the Sacraments.

May their loving devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist and to Mary His Mother be the Twin Fountains of fruitfulness for their ministry. Amen

The Most Blessed Sacrament is Our Lord Jesus Christ, both God and man, really, truly, and substantially present beneath the veil of the Eucharist.
Adore His Divinity, present in the Host. The Blessed Sacrament is God, the infinitely perfect Being, the Creator of heaven and earth, and the Sovereign Lord of all things.
Adore the holy Humanity of Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament; His body, His blood, His heart, His soul; be sure that He is really living, really present in His own person, and not in remembrance, or in symbol, but in reality.
Proclaim Him to be your God, your Savior, Your king, your end, and your all. Acknowledge yourself to be His creature, His subject, His servant. Before Him as Mary and Joseph did at Bethlehem, as the Angels do in heaven; make acts of faith in His presence, of submission to His authority, of abandonment to His will, Give yourself to Him; swear to be faithful to Him and to love Him forever.
The Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament By Albert Tesnière

Virtue of Diligence

Sloth is a disgust which makes us neglect our duty, it becomes deadly when grave obligations are neglected. Its children are hatred of spiritual things, despair, want of courage, torpidity and languor, wanderings in prayer, neglect of communion.
The opposite virtue is diligence.
The remedies are a consideration of the labors of Christ, of the brief evil for eternal reward, the shortness of life, the strictness of the judgment, and the terrors of hell, pious reading, prayer, and church going. Catholic Champion

The Mass is certainly a function the most excellent, the most holy, the most acceptable to God and useful to us, that can be imagined. And so, while it is going on, the angels assist in crowds with bare feet, with earnest eyes, with downcast brows, with great diligence, with incredible amazement and veneration. With what purity, attention, devotion, reverence, then, ought the priest to celebrate it? he should approach the sacred altar as Jesus Christ, assist there as an angel, minister there as a Saint, offer there the prayers of the people as a high-priest, interpose there for reconciliation between God and men as a mediator, and pray for himself as a simple human being. St. Lawrence Justinian