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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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