{"id":4051,"date":"2014-01-16T08:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/frank-duff\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T06:56:18","slug":"frank-duff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/frank-duff\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Duff, Holy Layman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frank<\/a>Heroic Fidelity to the Divine Office
\n<\/strong>Shortly before his death on 7 November 1980, layman Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary, addressed a group of deacons preparing for ordination to the priesthood in Thurles, County Tipperary. He shared with them something of his own life of prayer as a lay apostle. His example is a catalyst and an inspiration for all priests. This is what he said:<\/p>\n

Now perhaps you will forgive me for being personal. I absolutely hate it, but if I am not to talk to you to some extent out of my own background, I really have no other claim to address words to you at all. I am not a professor of religion, and I am certainly no peritus<\/em> in that department. The only thing which I have to point to is considerable experience. Therefore, willy-nilly, I have to refer to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have believed intensely in the spiritual order and I have never sacrificed it to the other. I have said the Divine Office since 1917 without missing a single day or a single hour, and think I could say, a single line of it.<\/strong><\/em> Likewise I have said daily the Rosary and the Seven Dolours. I have never missed daily Mass in that time, except in circumstances of absolute physical inability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is my conviction that anything useful that has come along has proceeded from that stressing of the purely supernatural. I think it meant that I was depending on the Lord and His Mother, and not on myself. I would say that one important result followed: that I was saved from vulgar pride. When there was development I was not tempted to ascribe it to my own abilities. Of course, one has to pay a price as well, the Christian price of torment and suffering. If unwilling to face up to that, avoid the priesthood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Next we come to the question of Our Lady. She is completely indispensable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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