{"id":24614,"date":"2009-05-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/the-priest\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T22:00:00","slug":"the-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/the-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"The priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"Pope<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bishop William Lori ordained two men to the diaconate today; they’ll be ordained priests next year. Saturday, May 16, the Bishop  ordains six men to the priesthood. These are happy days for the diocese of Bridgeport. So, I was thinking about the priesthood and what it means. While there are vast amounts of literature on nature of the priesthood, I thought Saint John Vianney would be an appropriate sounding board for today.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The
\npriest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he
\ndoes not administer the Sacraments to himself. He is not for himself, he is for
\nyou. After God, the priest is everything. Leave a parish twenty years without
\npriests; they will worship beasts. If the missionary Father and I were to go
\naway, you would say, “What can we do in this church? there is no Mass; Our Lord
\nis not longer there: we may as well pray at home.” When people wish to destroy
\nreligion, they begin by attacking the priest, because where there is no longer
\nany priest there is no sacrifice, and where there is no longer any sacrifice
\nthere is no religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saint
\nJohn-Mary Vianney, The Little Catechism of the Cure of Ars<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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