Bishop Boyd Carpenter in his book, Some Pages of My Life (p. 117) writes: “When we were leaving Liverpool, after my father’s death, I went with my mother, as she wished to bid `Good-bye’ to Dr. Mc Neile. As we were leaving, my mother mentioned that I was to be ordained before long. `Oh!,’ he said, `I wish I had know that.’ Then, coming near to me, he laid his hand upon my shoulder, and he said, `At first you will think you can do everything, then you will be tempted to think you can do nothing; but don’t let yourself be cast down: you will learn that you can do what God has for you to do.’”
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Picture on top: Class of 1965 on our
ordination day - June 20, 1965 - with
Cardinal Spellman who ordained us.
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