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Example Of Si John Vianney
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VATICAN CITY, — The role
of the priest and the virtues he
needs were the themes of the
second encyclical issued by His
Holiness Pope John XXIII. ^
Entitled “Sacerdotii N o s t r i j
Primordia” (From the Begin- j
ning of Our Priesthood), the
9,000-word encyclical commemo
rated the centenary of the death
of St. John Vianney, the Cure
d’Ars.
The letter, which is the second
encyclical, the Pope has issued
within a month, was divided
into three parts. The first part
dealt with priestly aspirations,
particularly poverty, chastity
and obedience. The second
stressed the priest’s need of
prayer and devotion to the
Eucharist and the third dis
cussed the pastoral zeal required
of all priests.
In each section the Pope point
ed out the example set by St.
John Vianney, who is the patron
saint of all priests, and urged
the world’s priests to imitate
him with ardor and persistence.
“To speak of St. John Vian
ney,” the Pope said, “is to recall
the figure of a priest whose mo
tivation was so strong that, for
the love of God and the conver
sion of sinners, he deprived him
self of nourishment and sleep.
He imposed hard discipline on
himself and he practiced, above
all, self renunciation in a heroic
degree.”
Citing the saint’s spirit of pov
erty, the Pope said he was “rich
in giving to others, but poor in
himself. He lived totally re
moved from the goods of this
world and his truly free heart
opened itself generously to all
the material and spiriual miser
ies which occurred around him.”
In praising the saint’s observ
ance of chastity the Pope warn
ed bishops to try to combat the
effects of isolation in which
many village priests live.
“We recommend with lively
insistence, venerable brothers,
that you provide your priests, in
the best possible manner, condi
tions of life and work that match
their generosity,” the Pontiff
said. “There is need, therefore,
at all costs, to combat the dang
ers of isolation, to denounce im
prudence and to do away with
temptations to sloth or the risks
of exaggerated activity.”
Citing St. John Vianney’s obe
dience to his bishop, who asked
him to remain at Ars as pastor,
the Pope said that his “whole
adherence to the will of his su
periors was, to put it precisely,
entirely supernatural in motive.
It was Sn act of faith in the
words of Christ, who said to His
Apostles: ‘Who hears you, hears
me.”
Turning to prayer in the life
of the priest, the Pope said that
“faithfulness to prayer is, on the
part of the priest, a duty of per
sonal piety.”
Of ail priestly prayers the
Pontiff singled out the Mass as
the greatest.
“We are not able to forget,
moreover, that Eucharistic pray
er in the full sense of the word
is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
There is need, venerable broth
ers, to insist especially on this
point because it touches on one
of the essential aspects of the
priestly life.”
The Pope also urged priests
to consider periodically how
they celebrate Mass and the
other rites of the Church to in
sure that their spiritual disposi
tion is in line with the sacred
ness of their function.
In the section dealing with
pastoral zeal the Pope insisted
that priests be encouraged to
consider themselves as pastors
of their sheep and particularly
to devote themselves to hearing
confessions, keeping in mind St.
John Vianney’s long periods in
the confessional and his fame as
a confessor.
The Pope said that “when,
from the height of the supreme
pontificate to which Providence
has called Us, We view the im
mense expanse of souls, the
grave problems of evangelizing
so many nations and the relig
ious needs of the Christian peo
ple, there is always and every
where present before Our gaze
the figure of the priest.”
Urging bishops to be close to
their priests, the Pope also ask
ed Catholics to be generous in
giving their sons to the Church.
“The Christian family must
fully understand its responsibil
ity and give its son with joy
and gratitude to the Mystical
Body,” he said.
The Pope said he did not plan
to treat of all aspects of the
priestly life. Instead, he said, he
wanted to emphasize “several
aspects of the priestly life which
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in all times are essential, but
which acquire so much import
ance in our days that We are
compelled by the duty of Our
apostolic mandate to insist on
them in a special way on the
occasion of this centenary.”
In treating of poverty, chas
tity and obedience, the Pope
recalled that Pius XII said:
“The cleric then is not obliged
by divine law to observe the
evangelical counsels of poverty,
chastity and obedience.”
But Pope John pointed out it
“would be an enormous mis
take in thinking that that Pops,
so concerned with the sanctity
of priests and the constant
teaching of the Church, could
believe nevertheless that the
secular priest might be called to
a perfection less than that of the
Religious.”
In urging priests to observe
the spirit of poverty, the Pope
said: “Certainly in recommend
ing this holy poverty We do not
wholly intend, venerable bro
thers, to approve the misery to
which even now ministers of
the Lord are reduced in cities
and in the country.”
In treating of chastity, the
Pope warned that this virtue
must be accompanied by proper
aspirations, so that it does not
enclose the priest in “sterile
egoism,” but instead “makes
his heart all the more open and
more ready for all the needs of
his brothers.”
Touching on obedience, the
Pope asked priests to develop a
filial sense in their relations to
the Church.
“It was said of the Cure
d’Ars,” the Pope stated, “that
he lived in the Church and
through the Church like a bun
dle of straw plgced in a burn
ing brazier.”
“Priests of Jesus Christ,” he
continued, “we are immersed in
a brazier which the Holy Spirit
vivifies with fire. We have re
ceived all from the Church. Let
us act in her name and in vir
tue of the powers she has con
ferred on us. We love to serve
her in the chains of unity, and
in the manner in which she
wishes to be served.”
Addressing bishops on the
priests under their jurisdiction,
the Pope states:
“We recommend that you lis
ten to them in their difficulties
now very grave, difficulties of
their personal life and of their
ministry.”
. “What cannot a bishop do
who loves his priests, if he has
won their confidence, if he
knows them, if he is near them
and guides them with firm but
always paternal authority?” the
Pope asked.
To all the faithful, the Pon
tiff appeal “in this centennial
year to pray for priests and to
contribute as much as they can
to their sanctification.”
“Today, Christians expect
much of the priest,” the Pope
continued. “They wish to see
him — in a world where power
of money, seduction of the
senses and prestige of technical
knowledge triumphs — a testi
mony of the invisible God, a
man of Faith forgetful of him
self and full of charity.”
“May such Christians know,”
he concluded, “that they can
have great influence on the loy
alty of their priests to this ideal
by means of religious respect
for their priestly character, by
a more accurate understanding
of their pastoral duties and their
difficulties, and by a more ac
tive collaboration in their apos-
tolate.”
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