Msgr. James Shea on the One Thing You Need to Overcome Mediocrity

“I was the translator for the last surviving priest of Dachau, who died last year at the age of 102. I asked him, ‘What do you think of your life?’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m grateful, of course, but I’m also ashamed. ... Part of it’s just survivor’s guilt. I lived and my brothers died. But there’s this other thing. I was a mediocre priest and it took Dow to get the mediocrity out of my priesthood. I was a mediocre priest.’”