All of these come from The Diary of a Country Priest. Which is a wonderful book about a young priest and his little parish. The struggle of faith and the depth of our interconnectedness as humans. How the sins and distresses of the parish are so intimately connected to their priest!
With that...
"A kid's got plenty of trouble, like everybody else, and he's really so very helpless, quite unarmed against pain and illness. Childhood and old age should be the two greatest trials of mankind, but that very sense of powerlessness is the mainspring of a child's joy."
"Joy is the gift of the Church. whatever joy is possible for this world to share"
"Monks suffer for souls, [a priest's] pain in on behalf of souls"
"My parish... The words can't even be spoken without a kind of soaring love ... my parish is a reality. We belong to each other for all eternity; ... a living cell of the everlasting Church"
I could ponder these little tidbits for a while. I leave them for you also to enjoy.
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