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A call (liking) for religious life and a call (attraction) to the priesthood are favors God gave me in my early teens. Why did He favor me in this way? I don't know. I shall probably spend an eternity puzzling this through, trying to figure it out.
But now that I have completed more than 50 years of religious life and 45 of priesthood, I am ready to confess that God knew better than I did what would make me happy in this life and how I could best prepare for the life to come. To do God's will - is there any greater happiness?
During the course of this life's pilgrimage, God has also acquainted me with many of his servants who acted as his agents in forming me, teaching me, tempering me, guiding me, correcting me, directing me - always, it seems, along the path that led to Him. I didn't always think so at the time. Family members, relatives, school chums, neighbors, fellow religious - all have been instrumental in helping me find the way.
I marvel, lately, at how God melded whatever gifts and talents He gave me with the apostolic goals of this religious congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart.
Somehow there is always a place for me, a work for me, a situation in which what I do complements what others do so that the whole work done by all together reflects gloriously on the Sacred Heart and on the church.
Prayer:
Sacred Heart of Jesus, your compassionate and personal love for me leads you to beckon to me at every moment, to call me constantly to share the fullness of your joy at accomplishing the Father's will: my own salvation Teach me to seek this will and desire it above all things, in the sure knowledge that doing it will lead to your glory and my happiness. Your will be done!
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