Therefore, instruct the faithful under your care on their obligation to help their priests in want. Our Lord’s words always hold true: “The laborer deserves his wages”.91Luc., X, 7. How can you expect fervent and energetic work from priests when they lack the necessities of life? Those faithful who overlook this duty open the way, although involuntarily, to the Church’s enemies who in a number of countries seek to reduce the clergy to want in order to deprive the people of their lawful pastors.
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