“When people want to destroy religion, they start by attacking priests, because where there are no priests, there is no sacrifice; and where there is no sacrifice, there is no religion.”

                                ~St. John Vianney

For Reflection:

To what extent do I contribute to the attack against priest today either by my thoughts, my words, or my deeds? What can I do to be a conduit of grace for the priesthood?

In Conversation With God Vol 2 Daily Meditations Lent and Easter  Francis Fernandez-Carvajal Pb 609 pgs Click Here For More Information. SECOND WEEK OF LENT-FRIDAY 17. ABHORRENCE OF SIN 17.1 Our Sins and Redemption. The true evil in the world. Every sin bears an intimate and mysterious relationship to the Passion of Jesus. ...Moral renewal, which this world so much needs, begins with this profound conviction: On earth there is but one evil, which you must fear and avoid with the grace of God - sin. On the other hand, the loss of the sense of sin is thus a form or consequence of 'the denial of God': not only in the form of atheism, but also in the form of secularism....We can very well say, says the Cure' d'Ars, that the Passion which the Jews made Christ suffer was almost nothing compared with what Christians make him undergo with their insults of mortal sins...what horror there will be when Jesus Christ shows us the things for which we have abandoned Him!