The Daily Holy Hour Is, and Has Always Been, the Answer To The Crisis in Our Church and Among the Clergy

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The priest should think of the practice of the daily Holy Hour, as something to continue for his whole life…the daily Holy Hour gives us wisdom…The mind of the priest who lives close to the tabernacle door gains a special illumination. The priest's mind and heart are best guided when they seek the Eucharistic Lord at dawn…Daily exigencies demand a daily Holy Hour…Vitamins cannot be stored up. Spiritual energy has to be renewed; today's strength must come from the Lord today. Thus the monotony of life is broken, and there comes to the priest new power for each day's apostolate.

The Holy Hour each day also destroys in the priest forebodings and worries about the future. Kneeling before the Eucharistic Lord, he receives the rations for each day's march, worrying not at all about tomorrow...The Holy Hour should be a daily event because our crosses are daily, not weekly…These daily crosses will sour us, sear our souls and make us bitter, unless we turn them into crucifixes; and how can that be done except by seeing them as coming from the Lord? That we can do only if we are with Him. The Holy Hour may be a sacrifice, but the Lord does not make the week the unit of sacrifice. He tells us our cross is daily.

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

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