Saturday, March 20, 2010

"...to save souls..."

“I wanted to be a priest to save souls and to help people know of God’s love and to lead them to a Christian way of life.”

These words are one of the finest descriptions of what the life a priest should be. They come from Fr. Antonio G. Leon, 77, pastor of Jacksonville’s Immaculate Conception church who died Saturday of had kidney failure. You can read more at the Curt Jester's blog here.