My life, like Christ’s—if my priesthood meant anything—was to do always the will of the Father. It was humility I needed: the grace to realize my position before God—not just in times when things were going well, as they had been in Norilsk, but more so in times of doubt and disappointment, like today, when things were not going the way I would have planned them or wished them. That’s what humility means—learning to accept disappointments and even defeat as God-sent, learning to persevere and carry on with peace of heart and confidence in God, secure in the knowledge that something worthwhile
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