The week before last I had a very rewarding experience: I preached a five-day retreat for 30 priests of the archdiocese.
Taken out of his book?
I propose one of the reasons priests stumble and fall, or why they shrivel up into careless, crabby, comfortable, lazy bachelors, has little to do with vocation but everything to do with faith! (p. 19)
...cultivate friendships with salt-of-the-earth laypeople who help you keep your feet on the ground. ... every Sunday they take from what they need, not from the extra but from the essential, and put that money in the envelope to support the Church they love so we priests can live high on the hog and complain about the tough life we have. (p. 196)
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