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Meditations on the Catholic Priesthood
Author: Rev. Charles P. Connor ISBN: 0-8189-0976-5 Paperback: xvi + 142 pp. Price: $14.95 + shipping To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master, Visa or American Express card ready. To order online click here. |
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At ordination, a priest becomes another person, commissioned not simply to act in the name of Christ, but to be another Christ, an alter Christus. This teaching was not an original insight of the Second Vatican Council. It is the traditional teaching of the Church. In this book, Father Connor helps the priest to see once again, in fresh terms, that this is truly the essence of the priesthood. He shows how, in the Eucharist the priest finds his raison d'être for being a priest, the source of all his strength in the ministry, the summit of all his prayers. The role of the Cross and suffering in the life of a priest is one of the highlights of this book. Yet the suffering of a priest is tinged with joy because he suffers along with Christ, bolstered by Jesus himself. |
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Father Charles P. Connor is a noted theologian, Church historian, and author of such works
as Classic Catholic Converts and Defenders of the Faith (both by Ignatius Press).
His popular lectures, from which these present meditations have been drawn, were first aired
by the the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN).