{"id":6503,"date":"2011-08-24T06:50:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T10:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:37:26","slug":"quote-of-the-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/08\/quote-of-the-day-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day, on priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/56\/2011\/08\/hands1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6508\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/56\/2011\/08\/hands1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"295\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople say that there is a scarcity of priests.  In truth, what an  adorable mystery it is that there still are priests.  They no longer  have any human advantage.  Celibacy, solitude, hatred very often,  derision and, above all the indifference of a world in which there seems  to be no longer room for them\u2014such is the portion they have chosen.   They have no apparent power; their task sometimes seems to be centered  about material things, identifying them, in the eyes of the masses, with  the staffs of town halls and of funeral parlors.  A pagan atmosphere  prevails all around them.  The people would laugh at their virtue if  they believed in it, but they do not.  They are spied upon.  A thousand  voices accuse those who fall.  As for the others, the great number, no  one is surprised to see them toiling without any sort of recognition,  without appreciable salary, bending over the bodies of the dying, or  ambling about the parish\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014 Francois Mauriac, quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/shirtofflame.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/good-fathers-priests-who-blurbed-my.html?spref=fb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesehandsbmj.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>\u201cThese Hands Bring Me Jesus<\/strong>\u201c<\/a> by Stephen Golder<\/em><strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople say that there is a scarcity of priests. In truth, what an adorable mystery it is that there still are priests. They no longer have any human advantage. 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