Is it not presumptuous to suppose that the sprinkling of a little water can have a decisive effect on a person’s whole existence? Or the laying on of hands by the bishop that we call Confirmation? Or the annointing with holy oils by which the Church escorts a sick person on the last journey? ...
The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” (Mt 9:37-38). I can still hear the loud voice in which the Holy Father proclaimed this message to the people assembled in the Theresienwiese, above all to the great number of...
