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Bernard Ward. The Priestly Vocation
The Priestly Vocation
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE PRIESTLY VOCATION
CONFERENCE I
CONFERENCE II
CONFERENCE III
CONFERENCE IV
CONFERENCE V
APPENDIX ON OBEDIENCE AT THE SEMINARY
CONFERENCE VI
THE RELIGIOUS EXERCISES OF THE PRIEST
CONFERENCE VII
THE PRIEST'S PASTORAL WORK
CONFERENCE VIII
THE PRIEST'S PASTORAL WORK (continued)
THE LITURGY
CONFERENCE IX
THE PRIEST'S PASTORAL WORK (continued)
PREACHING
CONFERENCE X
THE RECREATIONS OF A PRIEST
CONFERENCE XI
THE RECREATIONS OF A PRIEST
(continued)
CONFERENCE XII
THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY
CONFERENCE XIII
THE PERIODICAL RETREAT
CONFERENCE XIV
THE PRIEST IN SICKNESS—AND IN DEATH
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A Series of Manuals for Catholic Priests and Students
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Bernard Ward
A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy
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A third answer to our question on the means of our sanctification may be given, of a different kind from the other two. It is that the very works of our ministry may be a direct source of sanctification far greater than the various exercises, which from time to time we give up. Some of these we may enumerate.
First and foremost comes our daily mass. This can never be omitted through pressure of external work, whether there is a congregation or not. Time was, when in the days of our youth, we looked forward to the privilege of saying mass as almost too great and too sacred to be spoken of. It seemed to us that with this daily privilege, all life would be sanctified and sin would become impossible to us. What has been our experience after many years of this daily privilege? Has it fulfilled our expectation? Alas, our first experience has been that with frequent repetition the act has become perfunctory, and has often been performed with inadequate preparation, too short a thanksgiving, and little real devotion. Perhaps we have been free in too often omitting it. But it is not too much to assert that when it has been said properly, with suitable preparation and recollection, it has more than realised our most sanguine expectations, and that no instrument of sanctification could exceed in strength the daily mass of the priest, well prepared, well celebrated, and with a suitable thanksgiving.
