Occupation: Political Leader Birth: March 21, 1742 Death: January 1, 1787
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine t….
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste a….
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this ….
It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehens….
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry..
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather tha….
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a ….
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission….
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacr….
A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart in which….
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people..
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere….
Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all p….
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest….