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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…
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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 from mere…
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Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its…
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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…
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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…
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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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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets…
— Origen
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there,…
— John Calvin
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This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament;…
— Pope Pius XII
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
— Saint Augustine
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Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers,…
— Edmund Campion
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What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the…
— Saint Augustine
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These ceremonies which are used in the administration of the Sacraments, each of which we receive as delivered and entrusted to us…
— Peter Canisius
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The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the…
— Pope John Paul II
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The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an…
— Lauren F. Winner
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In the sacraments, spirit and matter "kiss." Heaven and earth embrace in a union that will never end.
— Christopher West
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