David Given Schwarm

With the crib as a tabernacle and the child as a kind of host, the home becomes a living temple of God. The sacristan of that sanctuary is the mother, who never permits the tabernacle lamp of faith to go out.

The life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. He gave because the monk preserves holiness in the desert and must be preserved by the bishop amid the world’s evil.