Church Quote by 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

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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 compassionate heart in which…

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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…

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The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a…

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Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ…

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The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament…

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

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The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way…

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It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of…

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There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

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

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