A Priest Is The God-bearer Or Christ-bearer,

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.

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.

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 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.

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.