Jubilee Year of the Priest

I am filled with happiness, Lord, that the 19th June starts the Jubilee year of the priest. I'm so so so glad that the whole world will be united in prayer for our priests- is it not by means of the hands and voice of a priest that YOU become the Priest : Sinless as YOU are, YOU offer Yourself and all us in YOU, to God our Father and to Yourself!!

Through the priest You come to us all in the most humblest of all forms, a tiny crumb of bread, without our beloved priests this is not possible and as St John Vianney (who hey! happens to be the new Patron Saint of priests :) said...

"Without the Holy Eucharist there would be no happiness in this world; life would be insupportable. When we receive Holy Communion, we receive our joy and our happiness. The good God, wishing to give Himself to us in the Sacrament of His Love, gave us a vast and great desire, which He alone can satisfy. In the presence of this beautiful Sacrament, we are like a person dying of thirst by the side of a river — he would only need to bend his head; like a person still remaining poor, close to a great treasure — he need only stretch out his hand. He who communicates loses himself in God like a drop of water in the ocean. They can no more be separated,"

- St. John Vianney