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Updated: May 4, 2025
He felt that one day he would be crushed between his parishioners' hatred of change and his fellow-priests' insistence on it rumour said that the Squire's elder son, Father Lawrence, was coming home before long, and the poor little rector quailed to think of what he would say of the harmonium if it was still in its place. "I er Miss Godden I feel our reputation is at stake.
Mikail read Latin and German fluently, developed a talent for theology, and his shrewd arguments won the admiration of his fellow-priests. "He has a brilliant mind," said Alexei to himself one day. "Who knows, he may yet become a bishop." The Russian Catholic Church occupies a unique position as compared with the churches of Southern and Western Europe.
The nature of the spiritual instruction bestowed by Piquet and his fellow-priests may be partly inferred from the words of a proselyte warrior, who declared with enthusiasm that he had learned from the Sulpitian missionary that the King of France was the eldest son of the wife of Jesus Christ.
Christ has obtained for us this favour, if we believe in Him: that just as we are His brethren and co-heirs and fellow-kings with Him, so we should be also fellow-priests with Him, and venture with confidence, through the spirit of faith, to come into the presence of God, and cry, "Abba, Father!" and to pray for one another, and to do all things which we see done and figured in the visible and corporeal office of priesthood.
Not only the priests' and deacons' voices, but those of the chanting men and boys alike unsurpliced and uncassocked, lacking, therefore, much of the attraction offered by a service in the Western Catholic Church had all at once ceased to be heard. All were now pressing forward to kiss the dead priest his fellow-priests first, and then, duly in order, all his relations and friends.
Everything seemed so hopeless and ineffective. He tried not to reflect on his fellow-priests, but for the fiftieth time he could not help seeing that they were not the men for the present situation.
Legend goes on to tell us that he became a Christian of such hot zeal as to exact a bloody atonement from the Frisians for their murder of Boniface and his fellow-priests a generation before. It further tells us that he founded a church at Enger, in Westphalia, was murdered by Gerold, Duke of Swabia, and was buried in the church he had founded, and in which his tomb was long shown.
He heard a hand push on the shutter to see that all was secure, and then footsteps go away over the floor on a level with his chin. Then he remembered that he must be in the same chamber with his two fellow-priests, separated from them by the flooring on which he stood. He rapped gently with his foot twice. Two soft taps came back. Silence followed.
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