\nfor the Congregation for the Clergy<\/a>) who writes to the world’s priests in view of the Year of the Priest. Reading the letter you see that he is right when he says that the holiness of
\npriests is not for themselves, it is a sacrificial holiness, an offering with
\nChrist, for the benefit of the entire Church. He writes to the priests:<\/i> <\/p>\n
Each day we are called Our spirituality must be nothing other than the spirituality In this year, which the Holy Father has providentially Yes, conversion every day of our lives so that Christ’s We must exist for others, we must undertake to live with the We must be labourers for the building up of the one Church We should be able to run spiritually in this Year with a The holiness of priests redounds to the benefit of the Those who are unable to be in City of Rome are encouraged to +Mauro Piacenza<\/p>\n Titular Archbishop of Vittoriana Segretario<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That today is Thursday, the day of the Eucharist and the priesthood, I thought I would republish most of the recent letter of Archbishop Piacenza (Secretary for the Congregation for the Clergy) who writes to the world’s priests in view of the Year of the Priest. Reading the letter you see that he is right … Continue reading “Being” determines “acting”: allowing the Good Shepherd to lead us to the Father<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,67],"tags":[2090,32104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nto conversion, but we are called to it in a very particular way during this
\nyear, in union with all those who have received the gift of priestly
\nordination. Conversion to what? It is conversion to be ever more authentically
\nthat which we already are, conversion to our ecclesial identity of which our
\nministry is a necessary consequence, so that a renewed and joyous awareness of
\nour “being” will determine our “acting”<\/span>, or rather will
\ncreate the space allowing Christ the Good Shepherd to live in us and to act
\nthrough us<\/b>.
\nof Christ himself, the one and only Supreme High Priest of the New Testament.
\nannounced, we will seek together to concentrate on the identity of Christ the
\nSon of God, in communion with the Father and the Holy Spirit<\/span>, who became man in
\nthe virginal womb of Mary, and on his mission to reveal the Father and His
\nwondrous plan of salvation. This mission of Christ carries with it the building
\nup of the Church: behold the Good Shepherd (Cf. Jn. 19:1-21) who gives his life
\nfor the Church (Cf. Eph. 5: 25).
\nmanner of life may be the manner of life made ever more manifest in each one of
\nus.
\nPeople in a union of holy and divine love<\/b> (which clearly presupposes the
\nrichness of holy celibacy), which obliges us to live in authentic solidarity
\nwith those who suffer and who live in a great many types of poverty.
\nof Christ<\/b>, for which we must live purposefully and faithfully the communion of
\nlove with the Pope, with the Bishops, with our brother priests and with the
\nFaithful. We must live this communion with the unbroken pilgrimage of the
\nChurch within the very sinews of the Mystical Body.
\n“wide open heart” so as to inwardly conform to our vocation the
\nbetter to say, in truth “it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives
\nin me”<\/span> (Gal. 2:20).
\nentire ecclesial Body. Thus it would be most fitting for all of us, be that the
\nordained Faithful, seminarians, the male and female religious, and the lay
\nFaithful, to find ourselves all together at the Vatican Basilica for the
\nVespers presided over by the Holy Father, which will be celebrated after
\nwelcoming the reliquary of the heart of that most outstanding priestly model
\nwho is St. John Mary Vianney.
\njoin themselves spiritually to the occasion.<\/p>\n