Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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work. And how well he carried it outl These were men inflamed with their love for God, their love tor His priesthood' lt is the very same priest hood which we are striving after lt is a goal ot which each and every one ot us is unworthy However we are aware of this fact and this ns pre cisely the reason for which we have come to the seminary, that we might become more worthy of the dignity and honor and love to which Christ has called us. No matter how hard we try, we can never be worthy. But we must make ourselves to be the best that we can be for truth and righteousness and Thee O Lord of our lives we come We would serve Thee wlth all our might There fore to Thee we come 19 . . . . - 9 . . . 0 . a a n . . Q - i 1 ' . . . H , o WX ..,-Q as

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world by the sacrament of Extreme Unctlon by golng on suck calls to help the dylng make their last days the holuest they have ever lnved Now we come to one ot the great est and most magnlfncent ot the powers and duties of the priesthood that of torglvlng suns lt IS a greater wonder than the ralslng of Lazarus from the dead tor by the Sacrament of Penance a soul dead wlth sun can be raised to late the life of grace the most chernshed possesslon a person can have for lt IS truly a one way ticket to heaven' As the snnner comes sorrowfully to Chrlst s representatlve on earth he confides hns shame hls sorrows hns dlsapponntments has dns couragement and ln return he re celves hope and peace of soul and con tudence In the mercy of the all mercl ful God and even more than conf: dence he experuences the actual mercy Ego te absolvo He re celves thus through the priest who recenves the power from Christ Hum se Receive ye the Holy Splrlt whose slns you shall forgive they are forgiven them and whose slns you shall retaln they are retalned The two other sacraments Con flrmatlon and Holy Orders are ad mnnustered by a Bishop But a Bishop ns merely one who possesses the Full ness ot the priesthood He admsnus ters the sacrament by which members of the Church of Christ are made sol dlers of Chrlst lt IS also In has power to admlnsster that tremendous sacra ment by which men become priests' He admunlsters that sacrament of 18 Holy Orders through whuch men be come Alterl Chrlsts lt IS the sacra ment which all of us here at Quigley are strlvlng to receive some day lt IS a sacrament which gsves a man the greatest power whuch as possuble for a human belng to possess the power to perform a muracle every day of has lute the oftnce to lead men on the road to heaven The priesthood as such a magnltscent offnce that Pope Plus Xl says All the good that Chrlstlan clvlllzatlon has brought Into the world IS due at least radically to the words and works of the Catholic Pnesthood The lute ot a prlest IS one long prayer lt IS a llvlng conversation with Christ and Hns Mother Mary Mary the Mother ot priests' To Jesus through Mary This maxim must be applied especially In the case ot Another Christ We know how much Christ loved Has mother and prnests and we as semunarnans are strlvlng to :mutate Chrlsts love Therefore nt IS actually a duty for us to be devoted to Mary the greatest sannt In heaven However we can cute many ex amples of saunts who were prlests and who carried out the work of a priest In the manner In which It should and must be carried out There IS St John Vlanney whose whole heart and soul was devoted to hns priestly mlnlstry We see the zealous St Francis Xavier who unnum bered souls has won There us the Salntly lgnatlus who forsook the world to devote hnmselt to Gods . . . 44 1 o u yy . 1 ' - - 1 v 1 CK ' ' 1 1 - - u 1 Q 4 a ' 1 . . . , , y I 1 1 . . a - ' - 11 , . . 1 . 1 1 1 1 T - 1 ' l 1 - + cc . . . ,, . . ' n , - ' ll ' Y! , u as 11 - - I , u n u . ' , 1 1 1 If 45 0 . Q . . ' 9 . . 1 1 u n . . u Q , n 0 gg , 1 ' - v - ' .. . ' . , . . . . . . . 45 . . 1 ' . . ,, . ' u - 1 . . . 1

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