Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""He"38 THE CUHtf OF ARS.merit, and his skill in employing those who possessed it.M. Bailey s words produced their full effect; and when hewas consulted on the ordination of the unaptseemed to reflect for a moment, and then said,scholar, heIs this young Vianney pious ? Does he say hisrosary well ? Is he devout to the Blessed Virgin ?"is a model of piety," replied all the directorswith one voice."Very well,"answered the Vicar- General, I willreceive him. Divine grace will do the rest."The Cure of Ars used often to say,"There is onething for which M. Bailey will find it hard to answer before God, and that for is, having made himself responsible for an ignorant creature like me."The Abbe Viauney was ordained sub-deacon at Lyonsby the Bishop of Grenoble, in the absence of the Cardinal-Archbishop. One who was at his side during the ordination observed that, when he arose after the prostration,his countenance shone with holy joy ;and as the procession returned from the cathedral to the seminary, chantingthe Benedictus, he pronounced the words, Et tu, puer,Propheta Altissimi vocabcris ; prceibis enim ante faciemDomini, parare vias ejus,* in a tone which rang longyears afterwards in the ears of his old friend and companion. It seemed prophetic of his future course.M. Vianney received deacon s orders in the July ofthe following year, and six months afterwards was ordained priest in the cathedral-church of Grenoble.God alone, to whom he then offered the holocaust ofhis whole being, knows what passed in that devoted heart"* And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the MostHigh for thou shalt ; go before the face of the Lord to prepare Hisways" (St. Luke i. 76).