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“The desire of My Heart is that My priests should adore Me, setting aside time each day to abide before My Eucharistic Face. There I will fill them with all the graces necessary to their sacred ministry. There I will give them the virtues without which they will be incapable of showing My Face and my heart to souls.

I would compel My priests to come in from the highways and byways where they have wandered, and where the Evil One lies and wait to ambush them. I would have them come in to Me, for I wait for them with a Heart full of Divine Friendship for each one. There will be no reproaches and no condemnation but only forgiveness and a great joy among the angels of heaven that my priests are at last taking their place in adoration before My altars.”

(From In Sinu Jesu, The Journal of a Priest)