Your ever affectionate,
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"You're spoiling me, Mark Anthony," he said one day. "There's nothing for me to do this evening."
You can't go into the little church without finding fifty people praying before the Blessed Sacrament. The other day when the "King Harry" was sunk by the "Trafalgar,
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CHAPTER XVII
THE DRUNKEN PRIEST
"That is the ugliest thing I've ever seen," he said. But when Father Rowley told him about the poor people and the old women who had no money of their own, he said: "That is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Mark agreed contentedly. "I want to give you a rest for once."
Mark.
I am beginning to write as if it was necessary to convince you of the necessity of making the Blessed Sacrament the central feature of the religious life to-day and for ever until the end of the world. But, I know you won't think I'm doing anything of the kind, for really I am only trying to show you how much my faith has been strengthened and how much my outlook has deepened and how much more than ever I long to be a priest to be able to give poor people Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
of the Blessed Sacrament Christ Himself, so that the poor people may flock round Him. He does not go round arguing with them,
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"Rest?" the priest echoed. "You don't seriously expect a fat man like me to sit down in an armchair and rest, do
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