“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 people find God's consolation, understanding and love.” PeopleHeartUnderstandingChristDivineAnd LoveEarsPriestsCompassionateConsolationSympatheticEucharistUnderstanding And Love Author:Arthur Middleton
“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.” WorldSpiritHumanityFatherEnergyChristDivineHolySalvationHoly SpiritPriestsSacraments Author:Arthur Middleton
“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 Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.” NeedsHumansFormChristSlavePriestsServingPossessedObedientHuman NeedsTrue Freedom Author:Arthur Middleton
“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.” FormChristChurchMissionsRootedConvenientIncarnationOrganisationPriesthood Author:Arthur Middleton
