red-blooded saint

“… in 1762, St Alphonsus de’ Liguori … began his episcopal ministry by sending missioners out to every corner of the diocese. He recommended two things only to these missioners, simplicity in the pulpit and charity in the confessional, and after hearing one of his priests neglect the advice, he said to him, ‘Your sermon kept me awake all night ... If you wanted to preach only yourself, rather than Jesus Christ, why come all the way from Naples to Ariola to do it?’”
https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/#6649351796996374598