In The Eucharist, Priest And People Together

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 Church's Note Must Be A Supernatural Note Which Distinguishes Incarnation From Immanence, Redemption From Evolution, The Kingdom Of God From Mere Spiritual Process.

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.

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.