A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a compassionate heart… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality,… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
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. — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry. — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
