If we really understood the priest on earth, we would die not of fright but of love…. the Priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus. (Saint Jean Marie Vianney, +1859, cf. CCC, #1589)
Day: August 4, 2025
Book Review: Coached by the Curé, Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney
(Here is a very fitting and a propos review and meditation on this Solemnity of the Sacred Heart from Father Marco Testa on Saint Jean Vianney, the Curé d’Ars, the patron saint of priests. As the good Curé put it, if we really understood the priest on earth, we would die, not of fright, but[…]
Saint Jean Vianney, a Priest for Priests
On this day, August 4th, in 1859 – the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx’s Communist Manifesto, both of which, sadly, shook the faith of many – the world witnessed the quiet passing into eternity of a most remarkable man, a simple country priest who lived[…]
Pope Benedict and the Curé d’Ars
(The holiness of the Church – and hence the salvation of the world – depends much upon the holiness of her priests. Hence, these words from Pope Benedict XVI from August 5th, 2009, on the Curé d’Ars ring as true and au courant today, and will unto the end of time). Editor. BENEDICT XVI GENERAL[…]