Need For Priests

Wimmer Wednesday. Everywhere there is a need for priests, both in the East and especially in the Far West. Often I must turn down an opportune offer for the simple reason that I do not have the people or do not want to divide the work of my priests. Churches are being built all over, sometimes very beautiful ones. The kingdom of God is increasing in a wonderful way…
—Boniface Wimmer, Letters of An American Abbot, May 17, 1860.