"A risky affair, life"

"Beautiful, but risky. Perhaps the risk is part of the beauty.

"This is a site for risk-takers, impossible-goal-scorers, gamblers, if you like.

"Cagier people, eternally calculating people, risk-avoiding types may not find much of interest here.

"On the other hand, who knows? Even the eternal calculator may notice that there's nothing very eternal about his prospects as things stand. A life of trembling at every shadow of every possible risk? The death of a thousand dithers? There has to be more. It has to get better than that....

"'He that will lose his life, the same shall save it.'" It's ordinary enough advice. As healthy as oatmeal. You could put it on the front of any survival kit. A sailor, or any mountaineer, could tell you the same. When you're in a corner, you don't worry about dignity or poise. You don't have time to throw shapes before the world. The goal becomes clear. You'll risk anything to get out. Anything. You'll gamble your very life to survive. You'll chance dying to live. You know it....

"We're banking everything on a promise we got - ages ago now - from a carpenter in Galilee.

"We're moving out. There are broader skies, other horizons...

"We are Catholic Priests, followers of Jesus Christ.

"If you feel as we do, then maybe you should think about joining the Catholic Church? If you are already a member, maybe you should become more active?

"If you're already an active Catholic and you don't feel you're making enough trouble yet, maybe you should be 'leading operations,' directing the 'break-out?'

"We need leaders. That's what a priest does, in various ways: he leads...

"Out...

"'Towards The Goal.'"

from a 'special message' by the Most Rev. Michael Neary
Archbishop of Tuam (County Galway, Ireland)
from the Archdiocesan Vocations website
www.towardsthegoal.com