“If I were to meet a priest and an angel, I should salute the priest before I saluted the angel. The latter is the friend of God; but the priest holds His place. St. Teresa kissed the ground where a priest had passed. When you see a priest, you should say, ‘There is he who [...]

“The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the Sacraments to himself. He is not for himself, he is for you. After God, the priest is everything. Leave a parish twenty years without priests and they will worship beasts. If the missionary Father and I [...]

“If we did not have the Sacrament of Orders, we should not have Our Lord.  Who placed Him there in that tabernacle?  It was the priest.  Who was it that received your soul on its entrance into life?  The priest.  Who nourishes it to give it strength to make its pilgrimage?  The priest.  Who will [...]