Religion Quotes by Arthur Middleton

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

— Arthur Middleton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

— Arthur Middleton

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

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

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

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his…

— Arthur Middleton

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and…

— Arthur Middleton

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest…

— Arthur Middleton