"Mass badly celebrated is an enormous evil. Ah! it is not a matter of indifference how it is said! ... I have had a great vision on the mystery of Holy Mass and I have seen that whatever good has existed since creation is owing to it." ~ Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich #Saints #Quotes

"The enemies of the Church themselves well know the vital importance of the priesthood; for against the priesthood in particular, as We have already had to lament in the case of Our dear Mexico, they direct the point of their attacks. It is the priesthood they desire to be rid of; that they may clear the way for that destruction of the Church, which has been so often attempted yet never achieved." ~ Pope Pius XII #Saints #Quotes

"Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata [Mary]. Let her prepare us, let her receive Him [Jesus] in Holy Communion. This is the manner most perfect and pleasing to the Lord Jesus and brings great fruit to us." Because "the Immaculata knows the secret, how to unite ourselves totally with the heart of the Lord Jesus... We do not limit ourselves in love. We want to love the Lord Jesus with her heart, or rather that she would love the Lord with our heart." ~ St. Maximilian Kolbe

"Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God's kingdom upon earth." ~ S

"Go to your confessor...take the advice that he will give you... For God, who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls." ~ St. Francis of Sales #Saints #Quotes

"The priest continues the work of redemption on earth.... If we really understood the priest on earth, we would die not of fright but of love.... the Priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus." ~ St. John of Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The priest consecrates this sacrament not by his own power, but as the minister of Christ, in Whose person he consecrates this sacrament." ~ St. Thomas Aquinas #Saints #Quotes

"The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity." ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, Our Lady will save the world." ~ St. Dominic

"From a theological point of view, every sick person has his cross and this is the way the priest-counselor sees patients on their special Calvaries." ~ Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"If we had faith, we would see God hidden in the priest like a light behind glass, like wine mixed with water." ~ St. John Mary Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"I shall never forsake you. My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God." ~ Our Lady of Fatima to Lucia #Saints #Quotes

"A good shepherd, a pastor after God's heart, is the greatest treasure which the good Lord can grant to a parish, and one of the most precious gifts of divine mercy." ~St. John Mary Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"From a theological point of view, every sick person has his cross and this is the way the priest-counselor sees patients on their special Calvaries." ~ Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"The world looks to the priest, because it looks to Jesus! No one can see Christ; but everyone sees the priest, and through him they wish to catch a glimpse of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur of the Lord! Immense is the grandeur and dignity of the priest!" ~ Pope St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"St. John Chrysostom says that priests should be so holy that all may look to them as models of sanctity; because God has placed them on earth that they may live like angels, and be luminaries and teachers of virtue to all others." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori

"You wish to reform the world? Reform yourself, otherwise your efforts will be in vain." ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola

"We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives." ~ Blessed Solanus Casey

"When people want to destroy religion they begin by attacking the priest; for when there is no priest, there is no sacrifice: and when there is no sacrifice, there is no religion." ~ St. John of Vianney #Saints #Quotes

"The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger. I still don't want to abandon my flock when wolves are making random attacks." ~ Blessed Stanley Rother

"Though it's functions are performed on earth, the priesthood should be numbered among the things of Heaven." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"In these times, may we hear God's invitation to take care of this world, and wherever we live, to make the world a more warming, human and brotherly place." ~ Fr. Jacques Hamel #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

"We must not fear the shortage of priests but, rather, hope that there will be good, holy priests, men of God and men of prayer... The priestly vocation is inseparable from the Virgin Mary." ~ Cardinal Robert Sarah #Saints #Quotes

"People who say that we priests are lonely are either lying or have got it all wrong. We are far less lonely than anyone else, for we can count on the constant company of the Lord, with whom we should be conversing without interruption. We are in love with Love, with the Author of Love!" ~ St. Josemaria Escriva #Saints #Quotes

"If I saw an Angel and a priest, I would bend my knee first to the priest and then to the Angel." ~St. Francis of Assisi #Saints #Quotes

“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 majesty, and to procure the salvation of souls." ~ St. Alphonsus Liguori #Saints #Quotes

"The power of the priest, is the power of the divine person; for the transubstantiation of the bread requires as much power as the creation of the world." ~ St. Bernardine of Siena #Saints #Quotes

"The hospital is a house of God, a garden where the voices of the sick are music from heaven." ~ St. Camillus de Lellis

"This Blood, that but one drop of, has the power to win All the world, forgiveness of its world of sin. If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

"Wear the scapular devoutly. It is my garment. To be clothed in it means you are constantly thinking of me, and I in turn, am always thinking of you and helping you secure eternal life." ~ Our Lady of Mount Carmel to St. Simon Stock

"Go to your confessor; open your heart to him; display to him all the recesses of your soul; take the advice that he will give you with the utmost humility and simplicity. For God, Who has an infinite love for obedience, frequently renders profitable the counsels we take from others, but especially from those who are the guides of our souls." ~ St. Francis of Sales #Saints #Quotes

"To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy’s vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature." ~ Arch. Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

"How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?" ~ St. Teresa of the Andes

"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, believe the people will be the same, for they are seasoned with the salt of his wisdom." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"You must pray for your priests. The spirit of a great institute like the Benedictine congregation does not survive automatically through the centuries; there is always danger, as time goes on, that such an institute, depending for its life not so much on any principles of organization as upon the influence of a subtle spirit which animates it, will lose the freshness and the purity of it s character." ~ Fr. Ronald Knox #Saints #Quotes

"As the shepherd, so the sheep; as the priest, so the people. Priest-victim leadership begets a holy Church. Every worldly priest hinders the growth of the Church; every saintly priest promotes it. If only all priests realized how their holiness makes the Church holy and how the Church begins to decline when the level of holiness among priests falls below that of the people!" ~Ven. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen #Saints #Quotes

" A Priest — whoever he may be — is always another Christ." ~ St. Josemaria Escriva #Saints #Quotes

"I was a poor slave boy but the priests of the Church did not disdain me. It was through the influence of one of them that I became what I am tonight...It was the priests of the Church who taught me to pray and to forgive my persecutors…In this Church we do not have to fight for our rights because we are black. She had colored saints – Augustine, Benedict the Moor, Monica. The Church is broad and liberal. She is the Church for our people." ~ Ven. Father Augustus Tolton

"Priests are like airplanes: they make news only when they crash; and yet there are so many still flying. Many criticize and few pray for them." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"Christ daily comes to us in humble form; daily he comes down from the bosom of the father upon the altar in the hands of the priest." ~ St. Francis of Assisi #Saints #Quotes

"It is necessary to pray for priests because they are so often forgotten by the living, since Christians often consider that priests do not need prayers." ~ St. Joseph Moscati #Saints #Quotes

"Christ needs holy priests! Today's world demands holy priests! Only a priest can become, in an increasing secularized world a resounding witness to Christ and His Gospel." ~ St. John Paul II #Saints #Quotes

"Be close to your priests with affection and with your prayers, that they may always be shepherds according to God's heart." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"Don't be afraid to go to the sacrament of confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you." ~ Pope Francis #Saints #Quotes

"All my life I wanted to be a missionary. I have wanted to carry the Gospel message to those who have never heard of God and the Kingdom He has prepared for them." ~ St. Junipero Serra

"He who honors a priest honors Christ; he who insults a priest insults Christ." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"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, believe the people will be the same, for they are seasoned with the salt of his wisdom." ~ St. John Chrysostom #Saints #Quotes

"The Holy Eucharist is the greatest treasure that the Church has on earth: It is Christ Himself." ~ Cardinal Arinze

"We may understand the confidence that the Holy Church has in Mary, we need only remember that in all public calamities, the Church invariably invites all to have recourse to the protection of the Divine Mother by novenas, prayers, processions, by visiting the churches dedicated in her honor and her images. She wishes us always to seek her and invoke her aid" ~St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori #Saints #Quotes