We Are To Introduce Our People Into

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 Priests.

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

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.

The Priest Comes. . Not As An Obscurantist, But Wearing The Intelligible Vestments Of Living Faith, Divine But Positive, Ministering In Word And Sacrament That Which Is Humanity's Hope And Salvation, The Divine Energy In Which He Lives With Christ In The Father Through The Holy Spirit, Identified But Not Accommodated To The World Christ Seeks To Save.