How Much More Willingly Does a Paternal Heart Take Charge of a Soul?

It is difficult labor to guide individual souls, though work that brings its own reward. The apostles and apostolic men call their disciples not only their children, but still more tenderly, their little children. It often happens, said St. Augustine, that the ministry of giving makes us worthy to receive. That of teaching lays the foundation of learning. For as a famous learned man said, a good way to learn is to study,. better way as to hear, but the best way is to teach.