I hope the mothers out there will forgive me today for speaking about fathers on Mother's Day. But I am not going to talk about your husbands but Priests. They are the fathers or guardians of our souls.
Priests spend their lives trying to save our souls.
We are their spiritual children. A Parish Priest can have 1500 families for his spiritual children. We won't even try to approximate how many spiritual children are under the care of the Bishop. Compare these numbers to the responsibility of a typical father of a family. He has to care for his wife and maybe four children.