Ministers of Your Joy Hughes Vincent McNabb and Sigrid Undset

Vincent McNabb and Sigrid Undset (among others)

They say familiarity breeds contempt

By Henri-Daniel Rops

It is “a triptych whose panels illustrate in settings of the recent past certain humble powers as old as mankind

Ministers of Your Joy Hughes Vincent McNabb and Sigrid UndsetBy Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) We are workers with you for your joy, states St. Paul, because you stand firm in the faith. These words, declared Pope Benedict XVI in a 2008 ordination homily, are the very program of the priesthood. To fulfill this program, he told the ordinandi, the fire of the Gospel must burn within you and the joy of the Lord dwell in you. Only then will you be able to be messengers and multipliers of this joy. We find