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 are not your own because you are the spouse of the Church. You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God and man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything. O Priest! Take care, lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: ‘He saved others, himself he cannot sav

"Hence, in one of the Sunday Secrets we say: 'Whenever the commemoration of this sacrifice is celebrated, the work of our redemption is enacted.'" ~ St. Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes

"The Second Vatican Council recalled: 'Priests act especially in the person of Christ as ministers of holy things, especially in the Sacrifice of the Mass' (PO 13) and that without a priest there can be no Eucharistic sacrifice." ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"He [the confessor] knows how much greater than your sins is the Mercy of God, this Mercy which grants you pardon through his ministry. He applies to you the infinite merits of the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ with which he can wash away all stains from your soul." ~ St. John Bosco #Saints #Quotes

"Vocations aren't the result of planning, but an encounter with God that changes your life." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"Give me ten zealous priests and I will convert the whole world." ~ St. Philip Neri #Saints #Quotes

"I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss." ~ St. Leonard of Port Maurice #Saints #Quotes

" …. I saw the Holy Father in a very large house, kneeling before a table, with his face in his hands, crying. Outside the house were many people, some of whom cast stones at him, others cursed him and said many ugly words. Poor Holy Father! We have to pray a lot for him." ~ St. Jacinta Marto #Saints #Quotes

"The priest is not a priest for himself, He is a priest for you." ~ St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The Angels guardian procure for the souls committed to their care grace to have recourse to a priest that he may absolve them: 'Although,' says St. Peter Damian, 'Angels may be present, they yet wait for the priest to exercise his power, but no one of them has the power of the keys -- of binding and of loosening.'" ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"Be attentive, dearly beloved priests, for the devils tempt one priest more than a hundred seculars; because a priest that is lost brings with him many seculars to hell. St. Chrysostom says, " To take away the shepherds is to scatter the flocks." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"A priest is one who makes Christ visible. The people see Christ in the saintly priests and they seek even to touch his robes as they did the robes of Christ. Children come to him without fear; non-Catholics give to them a reverence which they rarely give to others. The sure measure by which a priest draws souls to Christ is also the means by which he can drive souls from Christ." ~ Ven. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"It is the priest who continues the work of redemption on earth." ~ St. John Marie Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"Every vocation to the priesthood comes from the Heart of God but it passes through the heart of a mother." ~ St. Pius X #Quotes #Saints

"Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor." ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux #Saints #Quotes

"O wonderful the dignity of priests; in whose hands the Son of God is made flesh as in the womb of the Virgin." ~ St. Augustine #Saints #Quotes

"One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office." ~ Dietrich von Hildebrand #Saints #Quotes

"No human tongue can enumerate the favors that trace back to the Sacrifice of the Mass. The sinner is reconciled with God; the just man becomes more upright; sins are wiped away; vices are uprooted; virtue and merit increases; and the devil’s schemes are frustrated." ~ St. Lawrence Justinian #Saints #Quotes

"Dear John, you have taken the priestly habit and I am as happy as any mother could be. But never forget that it is not the habit that matters, but the effort to progress in virtue. If you ever come to have doubts about your vocation, be sure you never dishonor that priestly garb. Put it aside immediately. I would rather a poor peasant son than a priest who neglected his sacred calling." ~ Ven. Mama Margaret to her son St. John Bosco #Saints #Quotes

"The difference between parents and priests is as great as the difference between the present life and the future life. The former produce children for this life, the latter for the other life." ~ St John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes