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"To fall in love with God is the greatest of romances, to seek him the greatest adventure, to find him the greatest human achievement." As we celebrate Priesthood Sunday on the last Sunday of September, these words of Saint Augustine resonate in my heart with deep emotion. God is defined in Sacred Scripture as love. "God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God and God lives in him" (1 John 16). The Catholic priesthood is the vehicle through which I have been able to experience and participate in the love of God. I am in love, and my fourteen years of priesthood have been an amazing adventure of love. My bride is the Church, the Bride of Christ. Most of the time my bride is beautiful to behold and wonderful to be with, but sometimes my bride can be like a nagging wife in curlers or worse yet, unfaithful and corrupt. Nevertheless, Jesus calls me each day to love this Bride with renewed love made in acts of service, patience, and forgiveness.