Father Phil Smith

Catholic Priest. Priestly Vocation Director for the Diocese of Toledo in America.

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What would a saint do during a pandemic? That's what we will be praying about. See the complete devotional at: https://t.co/jKAgQ0Zc6j

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Moment of panic at Mass today, hearing: “Jesus breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit”
#JesusNeedsAMask

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“The worst thing that could happen would be for everything to go exactly as we wanted it, for that would be the end of any growth.”
Jacques Philippe

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Gratitude is the beginning of joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
-GK Chesterton

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Classroom visit conversation today
2nd grade boy: Why don’t priests get married?
Me: Do any of you have any ideas why we priests don’t get married?
2nd grade girl: Because if you had a wife she would nag you.
Me: Well…

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“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.”
John Henry Newman

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“Above all, never despise yourself. It is difficult to despise ourselves without offending God in us.” George Bernanos

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“Each of you has to be a microphone of God, everyone of you a messenger, a prophet” Saint Oscar Romero

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"I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it." (St. Faustina)

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"Don't try to live somebody else's life; it's just not you."
-Michael Quoist

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#CatholicGuilt https://t.co/q3pPm7bFHX

[Toledo XC/Track @ToledoXCTF]

“If you put your mind and heart into what you want to do, you’ll be able to do more than you think is possible and you can really surprise yourself."

Janelle Noe has one heck of a story, and she's not done writing it just yet.

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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
Corrie ten Boom

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@jcLeech #USA #USA #USA

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Today was a great day for #priesthood @DioceseToledo https://t.co/Q5yRCPsRAB

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“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
St. Francis De Sales

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I too will eat gelato in honor of the pope’s feast day. #gelatopope #icecream
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"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
-T. Merton

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"Holiness does not make you less human, since it is an encounter between your weakness and the power of God's grace." -Pope Francis