Priesthood Is Not A Convenient, Historically Conditioned

It Brings Spiritual Warfare And Suffering For The Priest As He Identifies With Those Who Suffer, And Shares The Frustrations, Anger, And Incomprehensibility Of That Suffering In What It Does To Those Who Suffer. The Priest Shares In These Struggles Of His Suffering People, The Uncertainties It Brings, The Sense Of Divine Abandonment It Induces, And The Loneliness Caused.

Priesthood Is Not A Convenient, Historically Conditioned Form Of Church Organisation, But Is Rooted In The Incarnation, In The Priesthood And Mission Of Christ Himself.

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 Medicine In The Sacraments.

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 Than Doctrine And Worship Are To Determine The Form Of The Church.

Priesthood Is Forever And Does Not Cease When A Priest Cannot Carry Out That Priestly Ministry.