He followed in the Latin tongue the words as Brother Emmanuel spoke them, and looking up he asked wistfully: "But where are they now, the apostles and prophets, the evangelists and pastors?
Have we got them with us yet ?" "We have at least the semblance of them; doubtless but for our own sins and shortcomings we should have a fuller ministry--a fuller outpouring of the water of life through those four God-given channels by which the Church is to be fed.

We have the apostolic office ever in exercise in our spiritual head at Rome.

St.Peter has left us a successor, and his throne shall never be empty so long as the world lasts.

Now and again the prophetic fire bursts forth in some holy man who has fasted and prayed until the veil betwixt the seen and the unseen has grown thin.

Would to God there was more light of prophecy in the earth! Perchance in His grace and mercy He will outpour His Spirit once again upon the earth, and gather about his Holiness a band of men lighted by fire from above.
In our wandering friars, ever going forth to the people with the word of the gospel, we have the office of evangelist in exercise; and the priest who guides the flock and dwells in the midst of the people of the land, surely he is the pastor, the keeper of the sheep.