The Science of the Saints: St. Bernard

Monday, August 30, 2010

St. Bernard

“But how, I ask, does it happen that the saints, who live only for God, resist their ordination through a sense of their unworthiness, and that some run blindly to the priesthood,and rest not until they attain it by lawful or unlawful means? 'Ah, unhappy men, says St. Bernard, to be registered among the priests of God shall be for them the same as to be enrolled on the catalog of the damned.” (St. Alphonsus, Dignity and Duty of Priests, Page: 40-41)

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St. John Chrysostom: “The Lord is not so much enraged against any sinner as against him who, while he shines with the splendor of the sacerdotal dignity, insults the Divine Majesty.” (St. Alphonsus, Dignity and Duty of Priests, Page: 73)

“St. John Chrysostom gives up as lost the priest that commits a single mortal sin after his elevation to the priesthood.”(St. Alphonsus, Dignity and Duty of Priests, Page: 75)

St. Bernard: “Ingratitude dries up the sources of divine favors.” (St. Alphonsus, Dignity and Duty of Priests, Page: 79)

St. Jerome: “There is not in the whole world a monster to be compared with a priest in the state of sin, for the unfortunate man will not bear with correction.” (St. Alphonsus, Dignity and Duty of Priests, Page: 79)

St. John Chrysostom: “When lay persons sin, they easily amend. As for priests, once bad, they are incorrigible.” (Dignity and Duties of the Priest, St. Alphonsus, Page: 80)

St. Alphonsus: “When the Lord chastises a people, the chastisement begins with the priest, for he is the cause of the sins of the people, either by his bad example, or by his negligence in attending to their sanctification.” (Dignity and Duties of the Priest, St. Alphonsus, Page: 83)