servers' guild. It offers a great opportunity for boys to become interested in and to learn about the Church, and to come to love our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. I think this is important in growing up. People are living in a vacuum and they have got to fill it with something. The true way is not to fill it with some false religion, but to fill it with our Lord's Presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the Church. I think this is so important to young people! And they respond. Our Lord does the work - we just give the opportunity. My wife always had an open door in our home. The young men could come in. Sometimes at our house we would have ten people to dinner on a Sunday: our own family and four or five others would be there. Some would come over from King's, and some of the servers would come over. When King's College conferred on me an honorary Doctorate in Divinity it was a very generous gesture. I am anything but a doctor scholastically. It was just an honour they gave me for the work I had done as a parish priest. I think they recognised the importance of the parish priest and his place in the whole scheme of things, that he is fundamental in the life of the Church. The parish priest is the man on the beat. There are all kinds of supplementary ministries, in universities, in chaplaincies of one kind or another. But the Church depends upon, and must come out of the experience of, the parish priest among his people in the parish. The parish priest is the last of the "going" professions - although I don't like the word "profession" in speaking of priests. I think of "vocation." It was a psychologist who said that the parish priest is the last of the "going" professions, going to the people. Now you go to the doctor, the doctor doesn't (or very seldom) go to you. The parish priest is the last one who goes into the home. I remember hearing a story from of how the schoolmaster taught in the homes there before there ever was a school. Now people are carted away from their homes to go to school. The teacher doesn't see the home, knows nothing about the home, knows nothing about the environment from which the child comes, whereas the parish priest has the door open. There is no other man in the community, with the exception of the doctor, who has the accessibility to the home that the parish priest has. If he loves his people he is always welcome and there is always a place for him. He shares in the most intimate details of their lives. He has a great opportunity to be a counsellor, and to be used by God for the healing of the souls and lives and bodies of men. I think many of the young men who go into the priesthood with the idea of being do-gooders haven't got their commitment to the Lord right in the first