Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-July 8

PRIESTS are chosen by God to manage on earth all his concerns and interests. They are dispensers of divine graces and the com­panions of God. St Francis of Assisi used to say, "If I saw an angel and a priest, I would bend my knee first to the priest and then to the angel."
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927