Saturday, December 22, 2007

Just for Today, December 23

Oh, how great and honourable is the office of priests, to whom it is given to consecrate with sacred words the Lord of Majesty; to bless Him with their lips, to hold Him with their hands, to receive Him with their own mouth, and to administer Him to others!

Oh, how clean ought those hands to be, how pure that mouth, how holy that body, how unspotted the heart of a priest, into whom the Author of purity so often enters!
-Bk. IV, ch. xi.
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How great is our vocation! It is for Carmel to preserve the salt of the earth. We offer our prayers and sacrifices for the apostles of the Lord; whilst they labour by word and example to win the souls of our brethren, we must be their apostles.
-The Story of a Soul.
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For a List of Abbreviations, see this post.
Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.

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