“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.” PeopleDoeSpiritualSufferingStruggleShareLonelinessDivineUncertaintyFrustrationPriestsWarfareAbandonmentSpiritual Warfare Author:Arthur Middleton
“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
“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 and see how good the Lord is.” PeopleMayPurposeChurchLordTasteSalvationIntroducing Author:Arthur Middleton
“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.” PeoplePrayerAnd LovePriests Author: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 that cures our souls.” PeopleSoulDreamRealityTogetherSawsMedicineCuresPriestsLaddersEucharistJacob Author:Arthur Middleton
