Prayers of the Faithful

For Priests

For all the priests serving in the [Arch]diocese of [NAME]:
That, especially during this Year for Priests, they may be strengthened by our prayers,
Nurtured by our gratitude and renewed by our pledge of support.
We pray to the Lord.

For all the priests of our Diocese:
That they may lead in faith and serve in love the flock entrusted to their care by Christ the Good Shepherd.
We pray to the Lord.

For priests:
Inspire them with zeal to proclaim the Word, celebrate the Eucharist and live their lives as Christ’s presence in the world.
We pray to the Lord.

For the priests who serve the people of the [Arch]diocese of [NAME]:
That they may be renewed (during this Year for Priests) so as to be faithful witnesses to the Gospel.
We pray to the Lord.

For our priests, who have dedicated themselves to God:
That they may be strengthened by our prayers and gratitude to remain faithful to the promises made on the day of their ordination.
We pray to the Lord.

For the priests who serve our parish community:
That they may always joyfully proclaim and live their faith in Christ the Word.
We pray to the Lord.

For the priests who serve in the [Arch]diocese of [NAME]
That they may be renewed with the Spirit of holiness.
We pray to the Lord.

For the priests of the [Arch]diocese of [NAME]:
In gratitude for their gift of Priesthood.
We pray to the Lord.

For priests everywhere:
That they may find example of priestly zeal and concern for God’s people in the life of St. John Vianney.
We pray to the Lord.

For the priests of the [Arch]diocese of [NAME] as we celebrate the Year for Priests:
That they may be renewed in holiness, generous in service and fervent in their vocation, witnessing always to the wonders of God’s love and the power of His Spirit.
We pray to the Lord.

For Fr. N. and Fr. N., who share their priesthood with our parish:
That we may know the message of Christ through the example of their vocation.
We pray to the Lord.

For Fr. N. and Fr. N., our spiritual guides:
That they may be strengthened as they lead us to our Heavenly Father through the Eucharist, and the preaching of God’s Word.
We pray to the Lord.

For Fr. N. and Fr. N.:
That they may be renewed in priestly holiness, integrity, joy and zeal.
We pray to the Lord.

For those who shared in the priesthood of Christ and have gone before us:
That they may be given a place in the heavenly liturgy.
We pray to the Lord.

For Vocations to the Priesthood

For an increase, particularly from our Diocese, in vocations to the Priesthood:
That God’s call to serve His people as priest may be heard over the many other voices.
We pray to the Lord.

For the young people of the [Arch]diocese of [NAME]:
That the Holy Spirit will provide them with the widom, courage, and desire to accept the
Priesthood if it is God’s plan for their lives.
We pray to the Lord.

For an increase in vocations to the Priesthood:
That more men will hear the call to serve the Lord and His people as priest and that their
call will be strengthened by our prayer and support.
We pray to the Lord.

For Seminarians

For our seminarians:
That they may persevere in their study and by God’s grace come to the altar of the Lord
as priests.
We pray to the Lord.

INTRODUCE WITH THESE WORDS:
“In this Year for Priests, (insert intercession here). We pray to the Lord.

Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, grant to your priests a sure knowledge of Your mercy and love. We pray to the Lord…

Grant, O Lord, that the men who have followed you as priests may be sustained by the prayers and service of the faithful whom they serve. We pray to the Lord…

For our priests, that their generous daily offering of self on behalf of the Church may be received as a pleasing sacrifice at the altar of the Most High. We pray to the Lord…

Eternal Shepherd, give your priests wisdom and courage that they may guide your people and defend them from all evil. We pray to the Lord…

Lord Jesus Christ, reveal to your priests the depths of love within your Sacred Heart. Lead them in ways of kindness and compassion for the souls entrusted to them. We pray to the Lord…

Quotes on the Priesthood

Quotes by St. John Vianney:

“The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.”

“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.”

“O, how great is the priest! … If he realized what he is, he would die… God obeys him: he utters a few words and the Lord descends from heaven at his voice, to be contained within a small host…”

“Without the Sacrament of Holy Orders, we would not have the Lord. Who put him there in that tabernacle? The priest. Who welcomed your soul at the beginning of your life? The priest. Who feeds your soul and gives it strength for its journey? The priest. Who will prepare it to appear before God, bathing it one last time in the blood of Jesus Christ? The priest, always the priest. And if this soul should happen to die [as a result of sin], who will raise it up, who will restore its calm and peace? Again, the priest… After God, the priest is everything! … Only in heaven will he fully realize what he is.”

“Were we to fully realize what a priest is on earth, we would die: not of fright, but of love… Without the priest, the passion and death of our Lord would be of no avail. It is the priest who continues the work of redemption on earth… What use would be a house filled with gold, were there no one to open its door? The priest holds the key to the treasures of heaven: it is he who opens the door: he is the steward of the good Lord; the administrator of his goods … Leave a parish for twenty years without a priest, and they will end by worshiping the beasts there … The priest is not a priest for himself, he is a priest for you.”

“There is little love of God in that parish; you will be the one to put it there.” [his bishop]

“[Lord,] grant me the conversion of my parish; I am willing to suffer whatever you wish, for my entire life!”

“Upon his arrival, he chose the church as his home. He entered the church before dawn and did not leave it until after the evening Angelus. There he was to be sought whenever needed.” [his biographer]

“One need not say much to pray well.”

“We know that Jesus is there in the tabernacle: let us open our hearts to him, let us rejoice in his sacred presence. That is the best prayer.”

“Come to communion, my brothers and sisters, come to Jesus. Come to live from him in order to live with him… Of course you are not worthy of him, but you need him!”

“It was not possible to find a finer example of worship… He gazed upon the Host with immense love.” [his congregation]

“All good works, taken together, do not equal the sacrifice of the Mass since they are human works, while the Holy Mass is the work of God.”

“The reason why a priest is lax is that he does not pay attention to the Mass! My God, how we ought to pity a priest who celebrates as if he were engaged in something routine!”

“What a good thing it is for a priest each morning to offer himself to God in sacrifice!”

“The grace he obtained [for the conversion of sinners] was so powerful that it would pursue them, not leaving them a moment of peace!” [his biographer]

“It is not the sinner who returns to God to beg his forgiveness, but God himself who runs after the sinner and makes him return to him.”

“This good Saviour is so filled with love that he seeks us everywhere.”

“I will charge my ministers to proclaim to sinners that I am ever ready to welcome them, that my mercy is infinite.” [SJV said of Christ]

“The good Lord knows everything. Even before you confess, he already knows that you will sin again, yet he still forgives you. How great is the love of our God: he even forces himself to forget the future, so that he can grant us his forgiveness!”

“I weep because you don’t weep. If only the Lord were not so good! But he is so good! One would have to be a brute to treat so good a Father this way!” [to “lukewarm” confessors]

“Everything in God’s sight, everything with God, everything to please God… How beautiful it is!”

“My God, grant me the grace to love you as much as I possibly can.”

“The great misfortune for us parish priests is that our souls grow tepid.”

“I will tell you my recipe: I give sinners a small penance and the rest I do in their place.” [to a confrere]

“My secret is simple: give everything away; hold nothing back.”

“Today I’m poor just like you, I’m one of you.” [when he lacked money for the poor]

“I no longer have anything. The good Lord can call me whenever he wants!”

“There are no two good ways of serving God. There is only one: serve him as he desires to be served.”

“Do only what can be offered to the good Lord.”

“After giving us all he could, Jesus Christ wishes in addition to bequeath us his most precious possession, his Blessed Mother.”

[above quotes are taken from the Holy Father’s Letter Proclaiming a Year for Priests on 150th Anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney 06/16/09]

“What is the priest? A man who holds the place of God, a man clothed with all the powers of God… At the consecration the priest does not say, ‘This is the Body of our Lord.’ He says, ‘This is my Body.’ Behold the power of the priest! The tongue of the priest makes God from a morsel of bread! It is more than creating the world… The Blessed Virgin cannot make her Divine Son descend into the host. A priest can, however simple he may be… How great is the priest! He will only rightly understand himself in heaven… To understand it on earth, would make one die, not of fear, but of love…

[below quotes are from 15 Days of Prayer with The Curé of Ars by Pierre Blanc]

“I have nothing else to prove to you except the indispensable obligation we have to become saints.”

“Wherever the saints go, God goes with them.”

“In order to do things well, we must do them as God wants them done, in perfect conformity with His plans.”

“Those who are led by the Holy Spirit have righteous ideas. When we are led by a strong God of light, we cannot make a mistake… The eye of the world sees no further than a lifetime, the Christian sees to the depth of eternity.”

“To love God with all of our heart is to be ready to lose our life rather than offend Him, it is to love nothing that shares our heart.”

“Man is poor and he needs to ask God for everything.”

“The only happiness that we have on earth is to love God and know that God loves us.”

“The soul can only nourish itself with God. Only God can satisfy it, only God can fill it. Only God can satisfy its hunger.”

“We can’t love God without giving Him evidence of it through our works.”

“The people who practice devotion, confess, and take Communion, but don’t do the work of Faith and Charity, are similar to trees in bloom! You believe that there will be as much fruit as there are flowers…but there is such a difference!”

In response to a question about how to pray: “It makes no difference, we don’t need to speak in order to pray. We know that the Good God is there, we open our heart to Him, we take pleasure in His presence, that is the best prayer.”

“Through prayer, we are united to God.”

“God doesn’t lose sight of us in the same way as a mother doesn’t lose sight of her child who is learning to walk.”

“Our crosses unite us to our Lord, they purify us, they detach us from this world, they carry the obstacles from our hearts, they help us live our lives like a bridge helps us cross a body of water.”

“Man does not live by bread alone, he lives by prayer, faith, adoration, and Love (God).”

“The cross is the key that opens the door, the lamp that illuminates heaven and earth, it is the ladder to heaven. The cross is the wisest book we could read; those who don’t know this book are ignorant.”

“How tender and consoling are the thoughts of the holy Presence of God… If we have faith, we would see Jesus Christ in the Sacrament.”

“He is there in the sacrament of His Love.”

“What could one think when we see the manner in which the majority of Christians believe in our churches? Some of their temporal affairs, others about their pleasures; this one is asleep, and that one finds the time long; one turns his head, another yawns, one scratches himself, one thumbs through his book, and yet another looks to see if it will all soon be over with.”

“The earth is too small to offer something that could satisfy the soul: it thirsts for God. Only God could satisfy it.”

“I know that the confession of your sins causes you a moment of humiliation. Is it really humiliating to confess your sins? The priest knows, more or less, what you may have done. I am much guiltier than you: don’t be afraid to confess…”

“… at the moment of absolution, the Good God throws our sins over His shoulder, that is, He destroys them. They will never reappear. The sins that we hide will all reappear. In order to hide them well, we must confess them.”

“I will give my ministers the responsibility to proclaim, to mankind, that I am always ready to receive them, that my mercy is infinite.”

“Hell has its origins in the goodness of God.”

Of the Blessed Mother, he said, “I loved her even before I knew her. She is my oldest love.”

“The three divine Persons contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

“When our hands have touched herbs, they perfume all that they touch. Let us pass our prayers through the hands of the Blessed Virgin, she will perfume them!”

On the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception: “What happiness! I always thought that the Catholic truths were always lacking this ray of light. It is a gap that cannot remain in religion.”

“I think that, at the end of the world, the Virgin Mary will be very quiet, but as long as the world exists, we tug at her from all sides…”

“Only the Holy Spirit can lift our soul and carry it to heaven.”

The Holy Spirit “magnifies our outlook, just as eyeglasses magnify objects.”

“Those who are led by the Holy Spirit have righteous ideas.”

“Each morning we must say: ‘My God, send me your Holy Spirit, so that He will make me know what I am and what you are.’”

“You must never scorn the poor, for this scorn falls onto God. Often, we believe that we are helping a poor person and it turns out that it’s our Lord.”

“You want to pray to the Good God, to spend your day in the church; but you think that it would be useful to work for a few poor people that you know and who are in great need: that is much more pleasing to God than your day spent at the foot of the holy tabernacles.”

“You are so lazy! You could work. You are young. You have strong arms.”

“It’s not austerity that weakens me, slander is hurtful in other ways.”

“They don’t think that they are doing something bad. I increased my politeness and thoughtfulness towards them and I gave more alms to those I was in the habit of helping.”

“He truly said something that hurt me, and I truly prayed to God for him. I must take care of him.”

“If we only knew how much the Lord loves us, we would die from pleasure! I don’t believe that there are hearts hard enough to not love when they see themselves loved so much!”

“They give up their eternity for the fluff of the world.”

“Happy is the Christian who is educated and enters into the spirit of the Church.”

“I don’t see the will of God in it, but Monsignor does. We don’t have any other choice but to obey.”

“… to be united with God! Let us seek to be united and to unite. Human speech is filled with unity. Error is the obstacle to union, there is no union possible between wrong and truth.”

“Don’t make a mistake; you, as confreres and religious brothers, are obligated to lead a life that is more perfect than regular Christians.”

“We always find enough people to buy banners or statutes, but the preference should be for the salvation of souls through missions. You don’t know all of the good that they do. In order to appreciate their effect, you must be in my shoes as a confessor.”

“…there is no true love if the man ‘marries her out of convenience, through ambition or because of her beauty,’ for the woman is not a object in service of man and his desires.”

“Each person has their own imperfections and faults.”

“Your children remember much more about what they see you do than what you’ve told them to do.”

“It would be very self-indulgent to forbid your children to do what you do yourself!”

“Virtue passes from the mother’s heart into the heart of the children who willingly do what they see is being done.”

He compares prayer to “a gentle conversation between a child and his father.”

“You take better care of your animals in the stable… than you do of your poor children!”

“They are small, but their prayers are big to God. To not let the children pray is to steal a great pleasure away from the Good God.”

“By dying, we make restitution. We give back to the earth what it has given us… A small pinch of dust, the size of a nut – that is what we will become. That is truly something of which to be proud!”

“Death is the union with God. In heaven, the love of God will fill and flood everything.”

“The saints’ preaching is their example.”

“The saints didn’t all start off well, but they all finished well.”

69. …These are the prayers he addressed to heaven as he began his parochial ministry: "My God, make the sheep entrusted to me come back to a good way of life. For all my life I am prepared to endure anything that pleases you." (76)
70. And God heard these fervent prayers, for later our saint had to confess: "If I had known when I came to the parish of Ars what I would have to suffer, the fear of it would certainly have killed me." (77)

71. Following in the footsteps of the great apostles of all ages, he knew that the best and most effective way for him to contribute to the salvation of those who would be entrusted to his care was through the cross. It was for them that he put up with all sorts of calumnies, prejudices and opposition, without complaint; for them that he willingly endured the sharp discomforts and annoyances of mind and body that were forced upon him by his daily administration of the Sacrament of Penance for thirty years with almost no interruption; for them that this athlete of Christ fought off the powers of hell; for them, last of all, that he brought his body into subjection through voluntary mortification.

72. Almost everyone knows his answer to the priest who complained to him that his apostolic zeal was bearing no fruit: "You have offered humble prayers to God, you have wept, you have groaned, you have sighed. Have you added fasts, vigils, sleeping on the floor, castigation of your body? Until you have done all of these, do not think that you have tried everything." (78)

74. …"A terrible disaster strikes us Cures"—the holy man complained—"when our spirit grows lazy and careless"…

75. Because of human liberty and of events beyond all human control, the efforts of even the holiest of men will sometimes fail. But a priest ought to remember that in the mysterious counsels of Divine Providence, the eternal fate of many men is bound up with his pastoral interest and care and the example of his priestly life. Is not this thought powerful enough both to stir up the lackadaisical in an effective way and to urge on to greater efforts those who are already zealous in the work of Christ?

76. Because, as is recorded, "he was always ready to care for the needs of souls," (80) St. John M. Vianney, good shepherd that he was, was also outstanding in offering his sheep an abundant supply of the food of Christian truth. Throughout his life, he preached and taught Catechism.

77. The Council of Trent pronounced this to be a parish priest's first and greatest duty and everyone knows what immense and constant labor John Vianney expended in order to be equal to carrying out this task. For he began his course of studies when he was already along in years, and he had great difficulty with it; and his first sermons to the people kept him up for whole nights on end. How much the ministers of the word of God can find here to imitate! For there are some who give up all effort at further study and then point too readily to his small fund of learning as an adequate excuse for themselves. They would be much better off if they would imitate the great perseverance of soul with which the Cure of Ars prepared himself to carry out this great ministry to the best of his abilities: which, as a matter of fact, were not quite as limited as is sometimes believed, for he had a clear mind and sound judgment. (81)

78. Men in Sacred Orders should gain an adequate knowledge of human affairs and a thorough knowledge of sacred doctrine that is in keeping with their abilities. Would that all pastors of souls would exert as much effort as the Cure of Ars did to overcome difficulties and obstacles in learning, to strengthen memory through practice, and especially to draw knowledge from the Cross of Our Lord, which is the greatest of all books. This is why his Bishop made this reply to some of his critics: "I do not know whether he is learned; but a heavenly light shines in him." (82)

79. This is why Our predecessor of happy memory, Pius XII, was perfectly right in not hesitating to offer this country Cure as a model for the preachers of the Holy City: "The holy Cure of Ars had none of the natural gifts of a speaker that stand out in men like P. Segneri or B. Bossuet. But the clear, lofty, living thoughts of his mind were reflected in the sound of his voice and shone forth from his glance, and they came out in the form of ideas and images that were so apt and so well fitted to the thoughts and feelings of his listeners and so full of wit and charm that even St. Francis de Sales would have been struck with admiration. This is the kind of speaker who wins the souls of the faithful. A man who is filled with Christ will not find it hard to discover ways and means of bringing others to Christ." (83)

80. These words give a wonderful picture of the Cure of Ars as a catechism teacher and as a preacher. And when, towards the end of his life on earth, his voice was too weak to carry to his listeners, the sparkle and gleam of his eyes, his tears, his sighs of divine love, the bitter sorrow he evidenced when the mere concept of sin came to his mind, were enough to convert to a better way of life the faithful who surrounded his pulpit. How could anyone help being moved deeply with a life so completely dedicated to Christ shining so clearly there before him?

81. Up to the time of his blessed death, St. .John M Vianney held on tenaciously to his office of teaching the faithful committed to his care and the pious pilgrims who crowded the church, by denouncing evil of every kind, in whatever guise it might appear, "in season, out of season" (84) and, even more, by sublimely raising souls to God; for "he preferred to show the beauties of virtue rather than the ugliness of vice." (85) For this humble priest understood perfectly how great the dignity and sublimity of teaching the word of God really is. "Our Lord"—he said—"who Himself is truth, has as much regard for His word as for His Body."

84. …on the occasion of this centenary, God wants to cast new light on the wonderful power of the apostolic spirit, that sweeps all in its path, as it is exemplified in this priest who throughout his life was a witness in word and deed for Christ nailed to the cross "not in the persuasive language devised by human wisdom, but in a manifestation of spiritual power." (88)
85. All that remains for Us to do is to recall at a little greater length the pastoral ministry of St. John M. Vianney, which was a kind of steady martyrdom for a long period of his life, and especially his administration of the sacrament of Penance, which calls for special praise for it brought forth the richest and most salutary fruits.

86. "For almost fifteen hours each day, he lent a patient ear to penitents. This work began early in the morning and continued well on into the night." (89) And when he was completely worn out and broken five days before his death and had no strength left, the final penitents came to his bed. Toward the end of his life, the number of those who came to see him each year reached eighty thousand according to the accounts. (90)

87. It is hard to imagine what pain and discomfort and bodily sufferings this man underwent as he sat to hear Confessions in the tribunal of Penance for what seemed like endless periods of time, especially if you recall how weakened he was by his fasts, mortifications, sicknesses, vigils and lack of sleep.

88. But he was bothered even more by a spiritual anguish that took complete possession of him. Listen to his mournful cries: "So many crimes against God are committed"—he said— "that they sometimes incline us to ask God to end this world!... You have to come to the town of Ars if you really want to learn what an infinite multitude of serious sins there are. . . Alas, we do not know what to do, we think that there is nothing else to do than weep and pray to God."

89. And this holy man could have added that he had taken on himself more than his share of the expiation of these sins. For he told those who asked his advice in this regard: "I impose only a small penance on those who confess their sins properly; the rest I perform in their place." (91)

90. St. John M. Vianney always had "poor sinners," as he called them, in his mind and before his eyes, with the constant hope of seeing them turn back to God and weep for the sins they had committed. This was the object of all his thoughts and cares, and of the work that took up almost all his time and efforts. (92)

91. From his experience in the tribunal of Penance, in which he loosed the bonds of sin, he understood just how much malice there is in sin and what terrible devastation it wreaks in the souls of men. He used to paint it in hideous colors: "If we"—he asserted—"had the faith to see a soul in mortal sin, we would die of fright." (93)

92. But the sufferings of souls who have remained attached to their sins in hell did not add to the strength and vigor of his own sorrow and words as much as did the anguish he felt at the fact that divine love had been carelessly neglected or violated by some offense. This stubbornness in sin and ungrateful disregard for God's great goodness made rivers of tears flow from his eyes. "My friend"—he said—"I am weeping because you are not." (94)

93. And yet, what great kindness he displayed in devoting himself to restoring hope to the souls of repentant sinners! He spared no effort to become a minister of divine mercy to them; and he described it as "like an overflowing river that carries all souls along with it"95 and throbs with a love greater than that of a mother, "for God is quicker to forgive than a mother to snatch her child from the fire." (96)

94. Let the example of the Cure of Ars stir up those who are in charge of souls to be eager and well-prepared in devoting themselves to this very serious work, for it is here most of all that divine mercy finally triumphs over human malice and that men have their sins wiped away and are reconciled to God.

97. As this Encyclical of Ours draws to a close, We want to assure you, Venerable Brethren, of the high hopes We have that these centenary celebrations will, with the help of God, lead to a deeper desire and more intensive efforts on the part of all priests to carry out their sacred ministry with more ardent zeal and especially to work to fulfill "the first duty of priests, that is, the duty of becoming holy themselves.'' (100)

106. On the occasion of this centenary celebration, We would also like to exhort paternally all of the faithful to offer constant prayers to God for their priests, so that each in his own way may help them attain holiness.

119. Confident that this centennial celebration of St. John M. Vianney throughout the world will stir up the pious zeal of priests and of those whom God is calling to take up the priesthood, and will make all the faithful even more active and interested in supplying the things that are needed for priests' life and work, with all Our heart We impart the Apostolic Blessing to each and every one of them, and especially to you, Venerable Brethren, as a consoling pledge of heavenly graces and of Our good will.

Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on August 1, 1959, the first year of Our Pontificate.
JOHN XXIII
[numbers in parentheses are from cause for sainthood for JMV -- Pope Pius XI]
"O my God, come to me, so that You may dwell in me and I may dwell in you."

Others:

“Let the whole of mankind tremble, the whole of the world shake, and the heaven’s exalt when Christ, the Son of the living God, is present on the altar in the hands of a priest.”

St. Francis of Assisi

“Ask the Lord to send out laborers does not mean to pray, ‘Lord, send someone,’ but rather, ‘Make me worthy of being sent so that I may approach this work not because it pleases me and is what I have programmed for myself, but it is the work that you are giving me.’ And, in fact immediately after the text reads: ‘He summoned the twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to drive them out and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of illness’ (Matthew 10:1).”

Cardinal Martini from Moses and Jesus

“O Jesus.
I pray for your faithful and fervent priests:
For your unfaithful and tepid priests:
For your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields.
For your tempted priests:
For your lonely and desolate priests:
For your young priests:
For your dying priests:
For the souls of your priests in Purgatory.
But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:
The priest who baptized me;
The priests who absolved me from my sin:
The priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion:
The priests who taught and instructed me:
All the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially...),
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart.
And Bless them abundantly in time and in Eternity.
Amen.

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

" I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all. Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with love. I understood that Love comprised all vocations, that Love was everything, that it embraced all times and places...in a word, that it was eternal! Then in the excess of my delirious joy, I cried out: O Jesus, my Love...my vocation, at last I have found it...My vocation is Love!"

St. Thérèse of Lisieux