"Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form……" — 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 himself."
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17 Quotes by Arthur Middleton
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In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes…
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The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God…
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an…
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It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations,…
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A priest is the God-bearer or Christ-bearer, a living Eucharist of the divine presence, bringing a sympathetic ear and a…
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The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering…
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The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got…
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There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a…
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We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its…
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he…
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There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
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The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and…
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