The Blessings that Proceed from the Holy Lives of Priests
by VP
Posted on Friday February 22, 2019 at 01:01AM in Books
Blessed is the nation, blessed is the people to whom the Lord has given a pastor after his own heart! Under his rule the crooked ways become straight, the rough ways plain and all flesh sees the salvation of God.The field are filled with plenty, the beautiful places of the wilderness grow fat, and the hills are girded about with joy.
Blessed world, that received from a most merciful Lord the twelve apostles!
Behold, my son, the power, the force, the influence of a holy priest. Mark you, they were but twelve and their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Though they were lambs, they conquered a world full of wolves; though they were but simple fishermen, they illuminated but their teachings a world shrouded in darkness. Though they were without staff or weapon, they overturned idols and temples; though they were of lowly birth, they are honored by the world itself. But they were holy; they were without stain, rich in chastity, assiduous in prayer, devoted to their ministry, imitators of Christ, filled with His spirit and His zeal.
O blessed land that possessed the twelve apostles!
Alas, wretched world of today, that languishes under the ministry of so many thousands of priests!
Source: An Epitome of the Priestly Life, Fr. Claude Arvisenet.
