In this year dedicated to priests, I would like to show my heartfelt appreciation to priests everywhere - they are teachers, guides, educators, consolers, models and ministers of the Holy Sacraments.

Thank you, Fathers, for your day- to-day dedication at the altar, in the confessional, during your visits to those sick and in prison. A priest is all things to all people.

The priest may be misquoted, mistaken and misunderstood, but he'll always forgive - because he is a mediator, a peacemaker, a go-between heaven and earth.

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