CHAPTER XVII.
THE PRIEST'S REWARDS.
The Prophet Isaias foretold of the Man of Sorrows that He should have His consolation in the midst of suffering: "Because His soul hath laboured, He shall see and be filled;"[1] that is, He shall see the fruit of His toils and tears even upon earth. So with His servants. In the midst of all his sorrows and labours, anxieties and disappointments, a priest has a multitude of consolations; even in this life he has a great recompense of reward. God will not be outdone in generosity. Whosoever forsakes anything for His sake, He will repay a hundredfold. What S. Paul said to all the faithful is emphatically true of priests. They who strip themselves of all things for Christ's sake, in the measure in which they are poor thereby become rich: nihil habentes, omnia possidentes.[2] Again he says, "All are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's."[3] The legal
