THIS was the homily I delivered at the Mass marking the 40th anniversary of our ordination to the priesthood.

I no longer call you slaves... I have called you friends. These are lines from today's Gospel, Friday of the fifth week in Easter, but they were also the motto of my ordination to the priesthood 40 years ago today. They were drilled into us by our professor in spiritual theology as freshmen at the Immaculate Conception School of Theology — the late and revered Fr. Alphonse Mildner, SVD, who also presided over our investiture as neophyte seminarians of theology.

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