An epitome of the priestly life

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her veneration.

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of Μary and brings clienis to heri Blessed are the peopte that are devovito her. ney shali receive hom the Lorda blessing of the dew of heaven and the

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Amen.

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ARDOR

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was lost. Mark weli: I have fouit; I have gone out, I have come. Τo wait for labor is the maia os the lu wam, to seek it that os the fervent. Α true fisherman does not take his restwhile fishes offer themselves to be caught, but casis out the hook and the net tocapture them. Is, there ore, thou wishest to be apriest according to my heari, it bellooves thee to be ever solicitous for the gloryos God and the salvation os fouis, todestre nothing more than these twothings, to seek energeticatly for Occasions that may conduce to them and planthe means os procuring them. Ιt bellooves thee in season and out of Aeason to labor, to strive, and to spendthyself, that by prayer, the Holy Sacrifice and the preaching of the word of God, by thy ministry in the hola tribunal

and the dispensing of the sacramenis, by good example and exhortation, by advice and encouragement, by kindness and correction, thou mayst in every way possibie extend the kingdom os God and multiplythe servants of the Lord.

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I may be able to serve thee With fervor. O Heari os Iesus, furnace of divine Iove, cast into my heari at least onespark of that fire stat Hows in thee: revive in me the spirit os mal, imprintupon me thy charity that I may WorthilyPerform thy Worklo Iove, stat ever burns and is neverextinguished, inflame me.