To live in the midst of the world without craving its pleasures; to be a member of every family yet confined to none; to share all sufferings; to be trusted custodian
of all secrets; to heal all wounds; to go from men to God and offer Him their prayers; to return from God to man and bring pardon and hope; to have a heart of fire for charity and a will of bronze for vows; to teach and pardon, to console and bless always!
What a Christlike life!- and it is yours O priest of God!
-Pere Lacordaire, O.P.
