In The Eucharist, Priest And

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.

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.

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.

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.

There Is A Kind Of Thinking In The Church That Wants To Reduce The Priest To A Mere Functionary, A Managing Director, Where Administration Rather Than Doctrine And Worship Are To Determine The Form Of The Church.