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"I know that at least nine out of ten are thieves, but I don't want to reach heaven and find that I could have helped somebody and didn't."
Servant of God Vincent McCauley, C.S.C.
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"I am convinced that modern missionaries must more and more make the motto of St. John Baptist their own: 'He must increase and I must decrease.' They are here to serve and assist and not to dominate."
Servant of God Vincent McCauley, C.S.C.
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"We no longer use the term 'adaptation.' The suspicion is that 'adaptation' implies putting African clothes on European and foreign interpretations of Christ's message. To the African Church the message of Christ is universal and, therefore, should be presented to the Africans as God's message to Africans. It must be something that can be understood and put into practice in Africa … The Gospel, the Church, must be incarnated in the African culture in which we live."
Servant of God Vincent McCauley, C.S.C. — On Inculturation
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary
"You cannot understand him at all apart from his devotion to Our Blessed Mother Mary. It is a great love story. She was his heroine, his inseparable companion. He spoke and wrote of her as if she was right by his side."
— Fr. Fell, C.S.C. (on Bishop McCauley's Marian devotion)
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"The missionary's task is to build the local church, to plant the seeds of Faith and to nourish the tender plants in foreign gardens, then to move on to other gardens."
Bishop Vincent J. McCauley, C.S.C.
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"He never complained. Those who saw the increasing, disfiguring effects of his facial cancer speak of never hearing him complain. He endured significant pain with hope, never losing his joyful heart or hearty laugh."
Witnesses to his final years
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"He could not see a poor or needy person and remain unmoved. Once when a poor man came while he was resting and was turned away, he was angry: 'How could you do that? You sent Jesus away!'"
A Banyatereza sister's testimony
"If you want to build a better world, you need fewer architects and more bricklayers."
— Servant of God Bishop Vincent J. McCauley, C.S.C.
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