"The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying." ~ St. Anthony of Padua...

"Perhaps the sole ends of the priesthood are to say Mass, and to recite the Office, and then to live like seculars? No, the end for...

"It is not because of any human meriting that a man consecrates and administers the Sacrament of Jesus Christ, and receives the Bread of...

"Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin…. In confession there is a chance for mercy. Believe it firmly....

"Do you wish to know if the people of any place are righteous? Look what sort of a pastor they have. If you find him pious, just, sound,...

"Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you." ~ Pope John Paul I...

"Do you wish to know if the people of any place are righteous? Look what sort of a pastor they have. If you find him pious, just, sound,...

"Each priest is a man with a body of soft clay. To keep that treasure pure, he has to be stretched out on a cross of fire. Our fall can...

"Young people, have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think there can be anything greater than to...

"My children, we have come to the Sacrament of Orders. It is a Sacrament which seems to relate to no one among you, and which yet relates...

“He made them, the vicars of his love.” ~ St. Ambrose

"Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. The priest holds the key to the treasures in heaven... he is...

“The end for which God has instituted the priesthood has been to appoint on earth public persons to watch over the honor of his divine...

"[The priest] does not preach a Christianity a la carte, according to his own tastes, preaching a Gospel according to his own preferred...

O Priest! You are not of yourself because you are of God. You are not of yourself because you are the servant and minister of Christ. You...

"The sign of a great Doctor of the Church is that he teaches not only through his thought and speech, but also with his life … If this...

"Hence, in one of the Sunday Secrets we say: 'Whenever the commemoration of this sacrifice is celebrated, the work of our redemption is...

"The Second Vatican Council recalled: 'Priests act especially in the person of Christ as ministers of holy things, especially in the...

"He [the confessor] knows how much greater than your sins is the Mercy of God, this Mercy which grants you pardon through his ministry....

"It was the priests of the Church who taught me to pray and to forgive my persecutors… it was through the direction of a Sister of...