Pray, pray for your priests
by VP
Posted on Saturday February 12, 2022 at 12:00AM in Quotes
"Pray, pray for your priests; every nation, every diocese gets the clergy it deserves.
We
priests are only earthen vessels, you know for yourselves many of the
shortcomings, hasty temper and slovenly habits and so on, by which we
often disgrace the livery we wear. But, when you observe such things,
you merely shrug your shoulders, and say, "Pity Father So-and-so isn't
more like poor Canon So-and-so". You should be on your knees,this next
week, praying for the clergy everywhere, from the Holy Father himself
down to the new priests [...]; praying for the seminaries too, the
factories where the tools of Christ are made. God protect His Church in
the anxious, bewildered days that are coming; and give us supply of good
priests to work as the martyrs worked, to live as the martyrs lived,
and if need be to die as the martyrs died, to the glory of His Holy Name."
Source: Monsignor Ronald Knox, Priesthood, Pastoral Sermons and Occasional Sermons
