What Should We Do in Impossible Situations?

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What Should We Do in Impossible Situations?

St. Manuel Gonzalez arrived at his first parish assignment and discovered that his parishioners had no interest in attending Mass. The Tabernacle was covered in cobwebs, the altar linens in disarray, and the parish was largely empty on Sundays. St. John Vianney arrived in Ars to find a people who had turned from the Lord. They were leading lives of dissipation. He discovered that his small country parish was in a very similar state to St. Manuel…