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Show Unfertile Soil. Something is wrong in a Catholic community where vocations to th nriesthood . do not germinate and bloom. Either there is In that community com-munity a lack of the true Christian piety which rises, at least now and then. Into the heights of self-sacrifice and of divine love where the priesthood priest-hood is born: or there is a lack of that sacred knowledge which leads and enables pastors and people to understand under-stand these sublime soarings of the ml and to aid them in their upwird flurnt Tha diocese, tha narlsh. void of f priestly vocations, has never been lit up with the divine fire, which Christ brought from heaven, and with which H willed that souls burn: it is earthly in its inner life, in its ambitions, ambi-tions, in its aspirations. It is the common unfertilized garden, where the common, the ordinary plant or shrub may thrive, where the fragrant rose bush, or the white-petaled Illy, finds no -genial soil or enlivening atmosphere. atmos-phere. Omaha True Voice. |