54. Yes, now more than ever, is there need of the help and devotedness of exemplary the help and devotedness of exemplary priests,full of faith, discretion and zeal, who, taking inspiration from the gentleness and energy of Jesus Christ, Whose true ambassadors they are, "proChristo legatione fungimur," ³⁶ to announce with a courageous and inexhaustible patience the eternal truths which are seldom fruitless of Virtue in men's souls.