Arthur Middleton Quotes

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• In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the…
• 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.
• Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all…
• It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that…
• 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 people…
• The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that…
• The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to…
• There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather…
• 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,…
• 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.
• As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
• There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
• The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest…
• Many people experience Gethsemane moments.
• Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
• The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are…
• 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 human…

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