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 …

- Arthur Middleton

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…

- Arthur Middleton

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 …

- Arthur Middleton

It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehens…

- Arthur Middleton

The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacr…

- Arthur Middleton

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…

- Arthur Middleton

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

- Arthur Middleton

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission…

- Arthur Middleton

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…

- Arthur Middleton