The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. — 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
