Chapter, Paragraph, Number
1 Intro, 0,3 | from the question of the priest's identity to that connected
2 Intro, 0,3 | more what is proper to the priest stands out."( 6) ~
3 Intro, 0,4 | and in particular to each priest and to those involved in
4 Intro, 0,4 | meet with each and every priest, whether diocesan or religious.~
5 I, 0,5 | The Priest in His Time~5. "Every high
6 I, 0,5 | His Time~5. "Every high priest chosen from among men is
7 I, 0,5 | these same contexts the priest is sent for the service
8 I, 0,5 | essential aspect of the priest that does not change: the
9 I, 0,5 | that does not change: the priest of tomorrow, no less than
10 I, 0,5 | tomorrow, no less than the priest of today, must resemble
11 I, 0,5 | history. In this sense the priest of the third millennium
12 I, 0,5 | life and ministry of the priest must also "adapt to every
13 I, 0,7 | to the priesthood, on the priest's own self - awareness and
14 I, 0,8 | the kingdom of God as a priest.~Often the world of young
15 I, 0,9 | consecration to God as a priest.~The recent collapse of
16 II, 0,11 | A Look at the Priest~11. "The eyes of all in
17 II, 0,11 | Messiah, the Messiah who is priest, prophet and king.~These
18 II, 0,11 | priesthood to Christ the high priest and good shepherd. This
19 II, 0,11 | then endure throughout the priest's whole life. This was the
20 II, 0,12 | Communion and Mission~12. "The priest's identity," as the synod
21 II, 0,12 | specific identity of the priest and his ministry. Indeed,
22 II, 0,12 | his ministry. Indeed, the priest, by virtue of the consecration
23 II, 0,12 | Spirit's gift of unity, the priest sacramentally enters into
24 II, 0,12 | understanding the identity of the priest, his essential dignity,
25 II, 0,12 | defining the identity of the priest. As a mystery, the Church
26 II, 0,12 | midst and on our behalf. The priest finds the full truth of
27 II, 0,12 | Christ himself, the one high priest of the new and eternal covenant.
28 II, 0,12 | and eternal covenant. The priest is a living and transparent
29 II, 0,12 | transparent image of Christ the priest. The priesthood of Christ,
30 II, 0,12 | by all Christians and the priest in particular. Reference
31 II, 0,15 | of Christ, the one high priest, embodying his way of life
32 II, 0,15 | baptized.~The truth of the priest as it emerges from the Word
33 II, 0,15 | anointed your only Son high priest of the new and eternal covenant.
34 II, 0,16 | Church and the World~16. The priest's fundamental relationship
35 II, 0,16 | and shepherd. Indeed, the priest participates in a specific
36 II, 0,16 | this relationship is the priest's relationship with the
37 II, 0,16 | of mutual immanence. The priest's relation to the Church
38 II, 0,16 | very relation which the priest has to Christ, such that
39 II, 0,16 | for the relation of the priest to the Church.~In this sense
40 II, 0,16 | spouse of the Church, the priest is placed not only in the
41 II, 0,16 | Church. The ministry of the priest is entirely on behalf of
42 II, 0,16 | missionary character of every priest."( 28)~Therefore, the ordained
43 II, 0,16 | priesthood.~The relation of the priest to Jesus Christ, and in
44 II, 0,16 | in the very being of the priest by virtue of his sacramental
45 II, 0,16 | ministry. In particular, "the priest minister is the servant
46 II, 0,16 | mission' of Christ, the priest can continue Christ's prayer,
47 II, 0,16 | Church. In this way, the priest is a servant of the Church
48 II, 0,16 | and services. Finally, the priest is a servant to the Church
49 II, 0,16 | sacramental mission, the priest appears in the structure
50 II, 0,17 | only to the extent that the priest is united to Christ through
51 II, 0,17 | the relationship of the priest with his own bishop, with
52 II, 0,17 | single presbyterate.~Each priest, whether diocesan or religious,
53 II, 0,18 | within the Church's life the priest is a man of communion, in
54 II, 0,18 | s salvation to all, the priest is called to witness in
55 II, 0,18 | cf. 1 Pt. 2:4-10). The priest shares in Christ's consecration
56 II, 0,18 | sent by the Father as high priest and good shepherd. Through
57 III | The Spiritual Life of the Priest~
58 III, 0,20 | provoking synthesis of the priest's "spiritual life" and of
59 III, 0,20 | configured to Christ the priest so that as ministers of
60 III, 0,20 | instruments of Christ the eternal priest, so that through the ages
61 III, 0,20 | Therefore, since every priest in his own way represents
62 III, 0,20 | grace. By this grace the priest, through his service of
63 III, 0,20 | who became for us a high priest 'holy, innocent, undefiled,
64 III, 0,20 | which characterizes the priest as one of the "faithful" (
65 III, 0,20 | proper and specific to the priest -- and thus involving a
66 III, 0,20 | specific quality" of the priest's spiritual life. These
67 III, 0,20 | elements connected with the priest's "consecration," which
68 III, 0,20 | ministry peculiar to the priest; which equips and obliges
69 III, 0,20 | instrument of Christ the eternal priest" and to act "in the name
70 III, 0,21 | sacramental consecration the priest is configured to Jesus Christ
71 III, 0,21 | the spiritual life of the priest is marked, molded and characterized
72 III, 0,21 | Suffering Servant of God, both priest and victim. ~The spiritual
73 III, 0,21 | spiritual existence of every priest receives its life and inspiration
74 III, 0,21 | as it is required by the priest's configuration to Jesus
75 III, 0,21 | cf. 1 Pt. 5 :2-3). The priest is to perform this service
76 III, 0,22 | giving his life for her. The priest is called to be the living
77 III, 0,22 | the head and shepherd, the priest stands in this spousal relationship
78 III, 0,22 | spouse of the Church, the priest is placed not only in the
79 III, 0,22 | his bride. Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate
80 III, 0,23 | the spiritual life of the priest inasmuch as he is configured
81 III, 0,23 | response on the part of the priest.~The essential content of
82 III, 0,23 | same must be true for the priest. With pastoral charity,
83 III, 0,23 | amoris officium,( 52) "the priest, who welcomes the call to
84 III, 0,23 | the Church community the priest's pastoral charity impels
85 III, 0,23 | charity requires that a priest always work in the bond
86 III, 0,23 | point of reference of the priest's charity is Jesus Christ
87 III, 0,23 | measure and impetus for the priest's love and service to the
88 III, 0,23 | presents, makes once again priest, the sacrifice of the cross,
89 III, 0,23 | Precisely because of this, the priest's pastoral charity not only
90 III, 0,23 | different activities of the priest. In virtue of this pastoral
91 III, 0,23 | demand for unity between the priest's interior life and all
92 III, 0,23 | life for the flock" can the priest guarantee this unity which
93 III, 0,24 | Gospel (cf. Lk. 4:18). The priest's mission is not extraneous
94 III, 0,24 | bond exists between the priest's spiritual life and the
95 III, 0,24 | Church addresses to the priest in the Rite of Ordination,
96 III, 0,24 | The "mystery" of which the priest is a "steward" (cf. 1 Cor.
97 III, 0,24 | The relation between a priest's spiritual life and the
98 III, 0,24 | orders. The ministry of the priest, precisely because of its
99 III, 0,25 | it is essential that the priest should continually renew
100 III, 0,25 | of the mission which the priest carries out on behalf of
101 III, 0,25 | the spiritual life of the priest who carries out that mission.
102 III, 0,25 | that mission. Indeed, the priest is chosen by Christ not
103 III, 0,25 | ministry deeply involves the priest himself as a conscious,
104 III, 0,25 | rise to and requires in the priest the further bond which comes
105 III, 0,25 | actions performed by the priest.~There can be no doubt that
106 III, 0,25 | Jesus Christ's love for the priest. This love, like other loves
107 III, 0,26 | intimate bond between the priest's spiritual life and the
108 III, 0,26 | and pastoral charity.~The priest is first of all a minister
109 III, 0,26 | Christ. For this reason, the priest himself ought first of all
110 III, 0,26 | abides" in the word will the priest become a perfect disciple
111 III, 0,26 | Gospel (cf. Jn. 8:31-32). The priest ought to be the first "believer"
112 III, 0,26 | and does evangelize, the priest -- like every other member
113 III, 0,26 | Gospel in its fullness, the priest is called to develop a special
114 III, 0,26 | Liturgy of the Hours that the priest is called to live and witness
115 III, 0,26 | sanctification. For the priest as well, the truly central
116 III, 0,26 | proper to each of them, the priest's spiritual life receives
117 III, 0,26 | Reconciliatio et Paenitentia: "The priest's spiritual and pastoral
118 III, 0,26 | sacrament of penance. The priest's celebration of the Eucharist
119 III, 0,26 | faith and devotion. If a priest were no longer to go to
120 III, 0,26 | pastor."( 70)~Finally, the priest is called to express in
121 III, 0,26 | Jesus Christ the head and priest of the Church by encouraging
122 III, 0,26 | ministry demands of the priest an intense spiritual life,
123 III, 0,27 | because it configures the priest to Christ, the head and
124 III, 0,27 | and spiritual life of the priest, such as faith, humility
125 III, 0,27 | chastity and poverty.( 73) The priest is called to live these
126 III, 0,28 | the spiritual life of the priest that obedience takes on
127 III, 0,28 | responsible freedom of the priest who accepts not only the
128 III, 0,28 | without servility, helps the priest to exercise in accordance
129 III, 0,28 | This aspect of the priest's obedience demands a marked
130 III, 0,28 | it is undeniable that the priest's life is fully "taken up"
131 III, 0,29 | the undivided love of the priest for God and for God's people,
132 III, 0,29 | especially important that the priest understand the theological
133 III, 0,29 | ordination, which configures the priest to Jesus Christ the head
134 III, 0,29 | wishes to be loved by the priest in the total and exclusive
135 III, 0,29 | Church and expresses the priest's service to the Church
136 III, 0,29 | characteristic approach to being a priest. Leaving father and mother,
137 III, 0,29 | Leaving father and mother, the priest follows Jesus the good shepherd
138 III, 0,29 | absolutely necessary that the priest pray humbly and trustingly,
139 III, 0,30 | his plan. ~Poverty for the priest, by virtue of his sacramental
140 III, 0,30 | Poverty alone ensures that the priest remains available to be
141 III, 0,30 | responsible for it, the priest should also offer the witness
142 III, 0,30 | be an incentive for the priest to commit himself to promoting
143 III, 0,30 | evangelical poverty will help the priest to stand beside the underprivileged;
144 III, 0,30 | societies: "A truly poor priest is indeed a specific sign
145 III, 0,30 | chastity and poverty which the priest is called to live out as
146 III, 0,30 | Christians at Philippi, the priest should have "the mind which
147 III, 0,31 | the spiritual life of the priest has an essential and undeniable
148 III, 0,31 | the spiritual life of the priest by virtue of his specific
149 III, 0,31 | necessary to consider the priest's membership in and dedication
150 III, 0,31 | needs. On the contrary, the priest's relationship with his
151 III, 0,31 | proper configuration of the priest and his spiritual life.
152 III, 0,31 | the priestly vocation.~The priest needs to be aware that his "
153 III, 0,31 | spirituality. In this sense, the priest finds precisely in his belonging
154 III, 0,31 | life can contribute to the priest's journey toward perfection,
155 III, 0,31 | throughout the world.( 85)~The priest's membership in a particular
156 III, 0,31 | constitutes part of the priest's spiritual life and continual
157 III, 0,32 | the spiritual life of the priest should be profoundly marked
158 III, 0,33 | essential to be aware that the priest will never lack the grace
159 III, 0,33 | foundation and support of the priest's unflagging trust amid
160 IV, 0,35 | fathers: "The vocation of each priest exists in the Church and
161 IV, 0,35 | Hence we can say that every priest receives his vocation from
162 IV, 0,38 | in the vocation of every priest.~In her service to the priestly
163 IV, 0,39 | presence and conversation of a priest can be: not only his words,
164 IV, 0,40 | priestly vocation. Indeed, a priest is called to live out, as
165 IV, 0,41 | ministry which makes the priest share in the concern of
166 V, 0,42 | Church and the world as a priest. In preparing for the priesthood
167 V, 0,42 | 21:15). For the future priest the answer can only mean
168 V, 1,43 | in the very nature of the priest and his ministry. The priest,
169 V, 1,43 | priest and his ministry. The priest, who is called to be a "
170 V, 1,43 | Gospels. The ministry of the priest is, certainly, to proclaim
171 V, 1,43 | human beings: "Every high priest chosen from among men is
172 V, 1,43 | the human formation of the priest shows its special importance
173 V, 1,43 | it is important that the priest should mold his human personality
174 V, 1,43 | 2:25; cf. 8:3-11), the priest should be able to know the
175 V, 1,43 | This demands that the priest not be arrogant, or quarrelsome,
176 V, 1,44 | for those who, like the priest, are called to celibacy,
177 V, 1,44 | The human maturity of the priest -- the synod fathers write --
178 V, 1,45 | from the identity of the priest and his ministry. And just
179 V, 1,45 | Spirit, so too for every priest his spiritual formation
180 V, 1,45 | gives life to his being a priest and his acting as a priest.
181 V, 1,45 | priest and his acting as a priest. In this context, the synod
182 V, 1,45 | extremely important element of a priest's education."( 136) ~The
183 V, 1,45 | the likeness of Christ the priest by sacred ordination should
184 V, 1,46 | continue throughout the priest's life and ministry. Likewise
185 V, 1,47 | prophetic ministry of the priest. They are a fundamental
186 V, 1,47 | Father. One aspect of the priest's mission, and certainly
187 V, 1,47 | of prayer." However, the priest will only be able to train
188 V, 1,47 | is what people ask of the priest: "The priest is The man
189 V, 1,47 | ask of the priest: "The priest is The man of God, the one
190 V, 1,47 | merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God' (
191 V, 1,47 | Christians expect to find in the priest not only a man who welcomes
192 V, 1,47 | rise up to him. And so the priest needs to be trained to have
193 V, 1,48 | and in particular of every priest, is liturgical formation,
194 V, 1,48 | irreplaceable, because without the priest there can be no eucharistic
195 V, 1,48 | of the Eucharist for the priest's life and ministry and,
196 V, 1,48 | giving" proper to the priest following the example of
197 V, 1,49 | affection of Christ the priest and good shepherd: to his
198 V, 1,49 | sacrifice for them."( 148)~The priest is, therefore, a man of
199 V, 1,49 | formation of the future priest, education in obedience,
200 V, 1,50 | to preparing the future priest so that he may know, appreciate,
201 V, 1,50 | Through his celibate life, the priest will be able to fulfill
202 V, 1,51 | of theology, the future priest assents to the word of God,
203 V, 1,52 | such as that concerning the priest's identity and his apostolic
204 V, 1,52 | these can help the future priest prolong the living "contemporaneousness"
205 V, 1,53 | formation of the future priest is based and built above
206 V, 1,53 | through the ministry of the priest."( 167)~Intellectual formation
207 V, 1,57 | Lord Jesus Christ, teacher, priest and shepherd. Hence, they
208 V, 1,58 | Specifically, they write: "The priest must be a witness of the
209 V, 1,58 | activities will teach the future priest to live out as a "service"
210 V, 2,61 | responsibilities, by which the priest is configured to Jesus Christ
211 V, 3,66 | perception of what it is to be a priest on the part of the candidates
212 V, 3,67 | on the development of the priest's personality than other
213 V, 3,68 | formation of the future priest. They should therefore be
214 V, 3,68 | to call back the future priest within the narrow confines
215 V, 3,68 | the formation of a future priest. The parish community should
216 V, 3,68 | himself in his identity as a priest, and offer him suitable
217 V, 3,68 | of the institution. The priest should therefore find within
218 V, 3,68 | are proper to the diocesan priest, who "will always remain
219 V, 3,69 | persons.~And so the future priest also, and in the first place,
220 V, 3,69 | effective only if the future priest offers his own convinced
221 VI, 0,70 | consecrates and sends forth, the priest is configured to the likeness
222 VI, 0,70 | ministry. In this way the priest is marked permanently and
223 VI, 0,70 | orders confers upon the priest sacramental grace which
224 VI, 0,70 | time it ensures that the priest can count on all the actual
225 VI, 0,70 | reasons which call for the priest to engage in ongoing formation.
226 VI, 0,70 | strongest expression of the priest's vocation and mission.
227 VI, 0,70 | and imposes his hands. The priest then gives his response,
228 VI, 0,70 | historical development of the priest's life and the life of the
229 VI, 0,70 | sacrament, who sustains the priest in this faithfulness and
230 VI, 0,70 | away the freedom of the priest. It calls on the priest
231 VI, 0,70 | priest. It calls on the priest to make use of his freedom
232 VI, 0,70 | is a requirement of the priest's own faithfulness to his
233 VI, 0,70 | God, at whose service the priest is placed. Indeed, an act
234 VI, 0,70 | and proper justice: The priest owes it to God's people,
235 VI, 0,70 | irreplaceable content of the priest's own pastoral ministry,
236 VI, 0,70 | necessary to ensure that the priest can properly respond to
237 VI, 0,70 | The heart and form of the priest's ongoing formation is pastoral
238 VI, 0,70 | introduces and accompanies the priest to an ever deeper knowledge
239 VI, 0,70 | charity itself impels the priest to an ever deeper knowledge
240 VI, 0,72 | ill their daily lives, the priest needs to develop and sharpen
241 VI, 0,72 | material or moral poverty, the priest can cultivate his own humanity
242 VI, 0,72 | formation to maturity, the priest receives special assistance
243 VI, 0,72 | be able to say about the priest, who has increasingly matured
244 VI, 0,72 | For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize
245 VI, 0,72 | 15).~The formation of the priest in its spiritual dimension
246 VI, 0,72 | Spirit, by consecrating the priest and configuring him to Jesus
247 VI, 0,72 | bond which, located in the priest's very being, demands to
248 VI, 0,72 | between the Lord Jesus and the priest, an ontological and psychological
249 VI, 0,72 | the Gospel" to which every priest is called today and which
250 VI, 0,72 | and in others."( 216)~The priest's prayer life in particular
251 VI, 0,72 | continually fostered through the priest's entire life, especially
252 VI, 0,72 | the teacher of truth, the priest is called to reveal to others,
253 VI, 0,72 | This demands that the priest himself seek God's face
254 VI, 0,72 | study is necessary if the priest is to faithfully carry out
255 VI, 0,72 | 3:15). Furthermore, the priest "in applying himself conscientiously
256 VI, 0,72 | graces he has received, the priest must be ever more open to
257 VI, 0,72 | pastoral charity, so should the priest's ministerial activity be.
258 VI, 0,72 | has been said, impels the priest and stimulates him to become
259 VI, 0,72 | encourages and sustains the priest's human efforts for pastoral
260 VI, 0,72 | not simply demand that the priest deepen the different aspects
261 VI, 0,72 | of the formation of the priest as such, that is, of the
262 VI, 0,72 | as such, that is, of the priest as a clear and living image,
263 VI, 0,72 | Ongoing formation helps the priest to overcome the temptation
264 VI, 0,72 | ongoing formation enables the priest to safeguard with vigilant
265 VI, 0,73 | Ongoing formation helps the priest to be and act as a priest
266 VI, 0,73 | priest to be and act as a priest in the spirit and style
267 VI, 0,73 | formation in relation to the priest's presence and activity
268 VI, 0,73 | Church as "mystery" the priest is called, by his ongoing
269 VI, 0,73 | should be the case with every priest, if he wishes to remain
270 VI, 0,73 | has as its aim that the priest become a believer and ever
271 VI, 0,73 | the eyes of Christ. The priest must safeguard this truth
272 VI, 0,74 | the Holy Spirit.( 219)~The priest should grow in awareness
273 VI, 0,74 | the only begotten Son, the priest is a member of the one body
274 VI, 0,74 | People of God, that the priest must live and give witness
275 VI, 0,74 | More specifically, the priest is called to deepen his
276 VI, 0,74 | accompany the life of the priest and lead him to share in
277 VI, 0,74 | is the concern which the priest should have to find, so
278 VI, 0,74 | him in the priesthood.~The priest must grow in his awareness
279 VI, 0,74 | ecclesial communion, the priest is called in particular
280 VI, 0,74 | indissoluble bond to Christ the one priest. The sacrament of holy orders
281 VI, 0,74 | is the care of Christ the priest for the people gathered
282 VI, 0,74 | of loneliness which the priest can sometimes experience."( 227)~
283 VI, 0,74 | desert" are necessary for the priest's permanent formation, whether
284 VI, 0,75 | formation aims at increasing the priest's awareness of his share
285 VI, 0,75 | Church's "mission," the priest's permanent formation appears
286 VI, 0,75 | By this formation, the priest is helped to become aware
287 VI, 0,75 | succeed in confirming the priest in the essential and decisive
288 VI, 0,75 | trustworthy" (1 Cor. 4:2). The priest must be faithful no matter
289 VI, 0,75 | and an incentive for every priest: "We put no obstacle," he
290 VI, 0,76 | always be a part of the priest's life. In every phase and
291 VI, 0,77 | ministry. As a result, the priest can be tempted to presume
292 VI, 0,77 | Often enough, the older priest has a sort of interior fatigue
293 VI, 0,77 | mission. As a result the priest will maintain a vigilant
294 VI, 0,78 | mutual exchange between the priest's life of faith and that
295 VI, 0,78 | sharing of life between the priest and the community, if it
296 VI, 0,78 | ministry and life of the priest.~The truth is that the Christian
297 VI, 0,78 | things are embraced by the priest who, while illuminating
298 VI, 0,78 | sincerely suffered in the priest's heart. And he, in seeking
299 VI, 0,78 | members, starting with the priest himself.~
300 VI, 0,79 | certain sense, it is the priest himself, the individual
301 VI, 0,79 | himself, the individual priest, who is the person primarily
302 VI, 0,79 | ongoing formation. Truly each priest has the duty, rooted in
303 VI, 0,79 | attractive unless the individual priest is personally convinced
304 VI, 0,79 | imposed from without. Each priest must continually find it
305 VI, 0,79 | the family into which the priest is born needs to be stressed.
306 VI, 0,79 | of providence chose the priest's family to be the place
307 VI, 0,80 | Holy Spirit to lead the priest to a direct growth in prayer,
308 VI, 0,80 | means deep down to be a priest, to find fresh motives for
309 Conclu, 0,82| educate the one eternal priest, who became docile and subject
310 Conclu, 0,82| Christ,~to the Messiah - priest you gave a body of flesh~
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