In both the stained glass window and the statue in our church, Saint Anthony of Padua holds the Bible and the Child Jesus. In 1231, Anthony was sent to the Franciscan hermitage in Camposampiero, Italy to recover from an illness he contracted after a tiresome Lenten mission full of preaching and hearing confessions. Anthony would pass on to his eternal reward later that year, but not before a period of intense prayer at the hermitage, during which he was granted the grace of physically embracing the Child Jesus. Consider the significance of the Baby Jesus coming to Anthony, a forceful preacher known as the “Hammer of Heretics.” Despite his reputation, (Anthony probably would upset many people in today’s climate of political correctness,) he possessed such great tenderness for Our Lord in his prayer and study of Scripture that the Child Jesus physically embraced and blessed him. And so we see that a good priest is not only a man who can deliver stirring homilies that ardently defend the teachings of the one true faith, but also a man who must have an intimate relationship of childlike trust with Jesus Christ.