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1 Intro, 0,1 | shedding of his blood for the life of the world.~By faith we
2 Intro, 0,3 | with the subject of the life, ministry and formation
3 Intro, 0,3(4)| Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests Presbyterorum
4 Intro, 0,3 | shown its concern for the life and ministry of priests.
5 Intro, 0,3 | the need for them in the life of the Church and the world.~
6 Intro, 0,3 | the quality of priestly life. The new generation of those
7 Intro, 0,3 | re - examine their way of life and their pastoral priorities,
8 Intro, 0,3 | priests in their spiritual life and ministry.~This same
9 Intro, 0,3 | holy priests. Thus the very life of the People of God manifests
10 I, 0,5 | millennia, have animated the life of the Church. In the third
11 I, 0,5 | equally certain that the life and ministry of the priest
12 I, 0,5 | era and circumstance of life.... For our part we must
13 I, 0,5 | maturity a project of priestly life? What difficulties are posed
14 I, 0,5 | demands of the spiritual life which is consistent with
15 I, 0,6 | the rebirth of ecclesial life in many parts of the world.
16 I, 0,6 | promotion of the values of human life and the person; and in the
17 I, 0,7 | summons to embark upon a life project which includes a
18 I, 0,7 | a secularist outlook on life and human destiny. The individual, "
19 I, 0,7 | introduced into everyday life, deeply disturbing the lives
20 I, 0,8 | ideal to be striven for in life, a well - being which is
21 I, 0,8 | indifference and results in a life which, even in its more
22 I, 0,8 | that the significance of life consists in a free and responsible
23 I, 0,8 | and conditionally to the life and mission of the Church,
24 I, 0,8 | Christian and ecclesial life and to educate them in it.
25 I, 0,8 | which young men have in life. ~
26 I, 0,9 | young people in a style of life which is less self - interested
27 I, 0,9 | toward the poor. This way of life can help young men perceive,
28 I, 0,9 | always offer a witness of a life based on moral and transcendent
29 I, 0,9 | giving the fullest meaning to life, suffering and death. For
30 I, 0,9 | care of priests in their life and ministry and their ongoing
31 I, 0,9 | ministry, in their spiritual life and indeed in the very interpretation
32 I, 0,10 | changing circumstances of life. In this case, the words
33 I, 0,10 | people ask about this present life and the life to come, and
34 I, 0,10 | this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship
35 I, 0,10 | priestly ministry in the life of the Church and in the
36 II, 0,11 | throughout the priest's whole life. This was the precise purpose
37 II, 0,12 | mystery because the very life and love of the Father,
38 II, 0,13 | this throughout his earthly life, but especially in the central
39 II, 0,13 | his sheep, who offers his life for them and who wishes
40 II, 0,13 | conform every aspect of her life.~
41 II, 0,15 | priest, embodying his way of life and making him visible in
42 II, 0,15 | the fullness of Christian life of all the baptized.~The
43 II, 0,18 | because within the Church's life the priest is a man of communion,
44 II, 0,18 | a new style of pastoral life, marked by a profound communion
45 II, 0,18 | priesthood. Our priestly life and activity continue the
46 II, 0,18 | and activity continue the life and activity of Christ himself.
47 II, 0,18 | joy, the very basis of our life."( 39)~
48 III | IS UPON ME~The Spiritual Life of the Priest~
49 III, 0,19 | makes us sharers in his life as Son, that is, sharers
50 III, 0,19 | that is, sharers in his life of love for the Father and
51 III, 0,19 | reminds us that a Christian life is a "spiritual life," that
52 III, 0,19 | Christian life is a "spiritual life," that is, a life enlivened
53 III, 0,19 | spiritual life," that is, a life enlivened and led by the
54 III, 0,19 | in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness
55 III, 0,19 | the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of
56 III, 0,20 | Council's Decree on Priestly Life and Ministry gives us a
57 III, 0,20 | the priest's "spiritual life" and of the gift and duty
58 III, 0,20 | of the priest's spiritual life. These are elements connected
59 III, 0,20 | himself" and with his entire "life," called to manifest and
60 III, 0,21 | holy orders, the spiritual life of the priest is marked,
61 III, 0,21 | to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mk.
62 III, 0,21 | every priest receives its life and inspiration from exactly
63 III, 0,21 | servant."( 47)~The spiritual life of the ministers of the
64 III, 0,21 | humanity the fullness of life and complete liberation.~
65 III, 0,22 | cf. Jn. 10:16). His whole life is a continual manifestation
66 III, 0,22 | nourishing them with his own life. The good shepherd offers
67 III, 0,22 | good shepherd offers this life through his own death and
68 III, 0,22 | risen! He who laid down his life for his sheep, who died
69 III, 0,22 | Eph. 5 :29), giving his life for her. The priest is called
70 III, 0,22 | In his spiritual life, therefore, he is called
71 III, 0,22 | Therefore, the priest's life ought to radiate this spousal
72 III, 0,23 | and guides the spiritual life of the priest inasmuch as
73 III, 0,23 | root of the whole priestly life. The priestly soul strives
74 III, 0,23 | obligation to give his whole life a "sacrificial" dimension. ~
75 III, 0,23 | between the priest's interior life and all his external actions
76 III, 0,23 | fundamental choice to "give his life for the flock" can the priest
77 III, 0,24 | The Spiritual Life in the Exercise of the Ministry~
78 III, 0,24 | This was the case in Jesus' life. This was the case in the
79 III, 0,24 | between the priest's spiritual life and the exercise of his
80 III, 0,24 | they are grounded in the life of the Spirit while they
81 III, 0,24 | s Spirit, who gives them life and guidance. For by their
82 III, 0,24 | directed toward perfection of life. Priestly holiness itself
83 III, 0,24 | expression in the priestly life. For this to be so, there
84 III, 0,24 | between a priest's spiritual life and the exercise of his
85 III, 0,24 | can be none other than a life of love, as St. Augustine
86 III, 0,24 | as a result the spiritual life, is none other than embracing
87 III, 0,25 | 25. For a spiritual life that grows through the exercise
88 III, 0,25 | focus for the spiritual life of the priest who carries
89 III, 0,25 | of thinking, feeling and life itself: in other words,
90 III, 0,25 | Christ and their holiness of life, are able to say with St.
91 III, 0,26 | between the priest's spiritual life and the exercise of his
92 III, 0,26 | ministry and his spiritual life. The gift of grace offered
93 III, 0,26 | his ministry and spiritual life, belongs to the Eucharist,
94 III, 0,26 | living bread which gives life to men through his flesh --
95 III, 0,26 | that flesh which is given life and gives life through the
96 III, 0,26 | is given life and gives life through the Holy Spirit.
97 III, 0,26 | the priest's spiritual life receives certain features.
98 III, 0,26 | s spiritual and pastoral life, like that of his brothers
99 III, 0,26 | collaboration with his bishop, his life of prayer -- in a word,
100 III, 0,26 | called to express in his life the authority and service
101 III, 0,26 | priest an intense spiritual life, filled with those qualities
102 III, 0,27 | Priestly Life and the Radicalism of the
103 III, 0,27 | the intimate communion of life with him brought about by
104 III, 0,27 | the pastoral and spiritual life of the priest, such as faith,
105 III, 0,28 | It is in the spiritual life of the priest that obedience
106 III, 0,28 | organized and organic ecclesial life, but also that grace of
107 III, 0,28 | undeniable that the priest's life is fully "taken up" by the
108 III, 0,29 | the full truth of eternal life."( 77)~In this light one
109 III, 0,29 | adequate priestly spiritual life, celibacy ought not to be
110 III, 0,30 | personally involved in the life of the community and being
111 III, 0,30 | economic and social aspects of life; and to promote a preferential
112 III, 0,31 | authentically Christian spiritual life, the spiritual life of the
113 III, 0,31 | spiritual life, the spiritual life of the priest has an essential
114 III, 0,31 | meanings in the spiritual life of the priest by virtue
115 III, 0,31 | priest and his spiritual life. In this sense, "incardination"
116 III, 0,31 | mission and his spiritual life. ~Other insights or reference
117 III, 0,31 | traditions of spiritual life can contribute to the priest'
118 III, 0,31 | capable of enriching the life of individual priests as
119 III, 0,31 | from societies of apostolic life to priestly secular institutes,
120 III, 0,31 | even to the gift of his life -- to the upbuilding of
121 III, 0,31 | becomes part of his priestly life or surrounds it.( 86)~For
122 III, 0,31 | of the priest's spiritual life and continual practice of
123 III, 0,32 | not limit the activity and life of the presbyterate to that
124 III, 0,32 | follows that the spiritual life of the priest should be
125 III, 0,33 | principal agent in our spiritual life. He creates our "new heart,"
126 III, 0,33 | development of the spiritual life it is essential to be aware
127 III, 0,33 | all to upright conduct of life.'~"Beloved, through ordination,
128 III, 0,33 | prayer, in integrity of life, in the pastoral charity
129 IV, 0,34 | pastoral work, of her very life and mission.( 95)~Indeed,
130 IV, 0,36 | never consider priestly life as a simply human affair,
131 IV, 0,37 | to share his own divine life. It is true that if human
132 IV, 0,38 | her prayer and sacramental life; by her proclamation of
133 IV, 0,38 | personal and unrepeatable life project which the Father
134 IV, 0,38 | need of them for her very life and mission, she acknowledges
135 IV, 0,38 | are so frequent in human life, the Christian who is ill
136 IV, 0,39 | believers to appreciate life as a response to God's call
137 IV, 0,39 | courageously about priestly life as a priceless gift and
138 IV, 0,40 | the law of the Spirit of life" (Rom. 8:2), which is essentially
139 IV, 0,40 | precious fruits to the Church's life. In certain cases and under
140 IV, 0,40 | person turns his entire life into an act of loving service (
141 IV, 0,40 | shepherd who "lays down his life for the sheep" (Jn. 10:11). ~
142 IV, 0,40 | commitment in consecrated life and nourished in prayer,
143 IV, 0,40 | readily able to sustain a life of disinterested and free
144 IV, 0,40 | others and in "losing" his life.~
145 IV, 0,41 | whole, a benefit to her life and mission. The Church,
146 IV, 0,41 | on earth."( 116) The very life of priests, their unconditional
147 IV, 0,41 | accepting the gift of human life, may be 'as it were, a first
148 IV, 0,41 | s will in that state in life which is most suitable to
149 IV, 0,41 | vocations to consecrated life, and are truly environments
150 V, 0,42 | calls them to intimacy of life with him and to share in
151 V, 0,42 | spiritual place, a way of life, an atmosphere that fosters
152 V, 1,44 | a central role in human life. In fact, as I have written
153 V, 1,44 | incomprehensible for himself; his life is meaningless, if love
154 V, 1,44 | individualism which threaten the life of each one, ready to open
155 V, 1,44 | responsible freedom, the community life of the seminary can provide
156 V, 1,45 | educational process of a spiritual life, seen as a relationship
157 V, 1,45 | total submission of one's life to the Spirit, in a filial
158 V, 1,45 | which unifies and gives life to his being a priest and
159 V, 1,46 | Trinity, that is, the new life of grace which makes us
160 V, 1,46 | also the heart of spiritual life, with his allegory of the
161 V, 1,46 | personal covenant of love and life between God and human beings.
162 V, 1,46 | certain sense, the spiritual life of the person who is preparing
163 V, 1,46 | Christ and the sharing in his life that this "seeking" will
164 V, 1,46 | throughout the priest's life and ministry. Likewise this "
165 V, 1,46 | signify in the spiritual life? And where is he to be found? "
166 V, 1,47 | time both the way and the life (cf. Jn. 14:6). It is a
167 V, 1,47 | that their whole priestly life will have value inasmuch
168 V, 1,48 | the whole of the spiritual life turns, is the gift and fruit
169 V, 1,48 | should guide and govern the life of the Christian is written
170 V, 1,48 | Eucharist for the priest's life and ministry and, as a result,
171 V, 1,48 | a rule of their priestly life this daily celebration.
172 V, 1,48 | elements of the spiritual life which often prove to be
173 V, 1,48 | where the conditions of life are poorer and young people
174 V, 1,49 | in people.~The spiritual life is, indeed, an interior
175 V, 1,49 | is, indeed, an interior life, a life of intimacy with
176 V, 1,49 | indeed, an interior life, a life of intimacy with God, a
177 V, 1,49 | of intimacy with God, a life of prayer and contemplation.
178 V, 1,49 | everyone as a program of life when he washed the feet
179 V, 1,49 | good shepherd, who gives life (cf. Jn. 10:11, 15). From
180 V, 1,49 | to lead him to give his life in sacrifice for them."( 148)~
181 V, 1,49 | that it is not their lot in life to lord it over others and
182 V, 1,50 | resurrection in a future life (cf. Lk. 20:36) and obtain
183 V, 1,50 | faithful to it for all his life and be able to carry out
184 V, 1,50 | threat. ~Through his celibate life, the priest will be able
185 V, 1,50 | s concern and fraternal life among priests. In the seminary,
186 V, 1,50 | assiduous and authentic life of prayer, and he should
187 V, 1,51 | grows in his spiritual life and prepares himself to
188 V, 1,52 | how can we put our whole life on the line, how can we
189 V, 1,53 | they imply for his personal life but also inasmuch as they
190 V, 1,53 | makes them partake in the life of the Church as a community
191 V, 1,53 | nourish their spiritual life and guide them to carry
192 V, 1,53 | formation in the spiritual life, in particular the life
193 V, 1,53 | life, in particular the life of prayer, meet and strengthen
194 V, 1,55 | and confusion within the life of the Church. One can think
195 V, 1,55 | Gospel penetrates the very life of cultures, becomes incarnate
196 V, 1,57 | serve others and to give his life as a ransom for the lives
197 V, 1,58 | dimension of the Church's life. They will get practice
198 V, 1,59 | activity, the consecrated life, involvement in political
199 V, 2,60 | community and hierarchical life, indeed as the proper home
200 V, 2,60 | a place and a period in life. But it is above all an
201 V, 2,60 | and intimate sharing of life with Jesus as a necessary
202 V, 2,60 | experience of the Church's life. In it the bishop is present
203 V, 2,60 | same liturgy (which imbues life with a spirit of prayer)
204 V, 2,60 | community in which, as its life and the life each of its
205 V, 2,60 | which, as its life and the life each of its members progresses,
206 V, 2,61 | seminary and its entire life -- in all its different
207 V, 2,61 | precise program, a program of life characterized by its being
208 V, 2,61 | consistency in the ordering of life, formational activity and
209 V, 2,61 | fundamental demands of community life, which also involves the
210 V, 2,61 | at regulating community life, establishing certain precise
211 V, 2,61 | commitment to precise ideals of life. For this very reason, the
212 V, 2,61 | exist and to the different life histories which they have.
213 V, 2,62 | seminaries, and the Christian life of the community offered
214 V, 2,62 | one hand -- the style of life and basic preparation of
215 V, 2,62 | been involved in Church life, and -- on the other hand --
216 V, 2,62 | other hand -- the style of life of the seminary with its
217 V, 2,63 | young people. Their way of life should be fully in keeping
218 V, 2,63 | ordinary affairs of daily life and contact with their own
219 V, 2,64 | years of experience of lay life and professional involvement.
220 V, 3,66 | ministry, priests of exemplary life should be chosen, men with
221 V, 3,67 | the various expressions of life.~In particular, the formative
222 V, 3,68 | the ministry and spiritual life which are proper to the
223 VI, 0,70 | and irreversible way of life and is entrusted with a
224 VI, 0,70 | and involves his entire life, is itself permanent. The
225 VI, 0,70 | continuing personal growth. Every life is a constant path toward
226 VI, 0,70 | development of the priest's life and the life of the Church
227 VI, 0,70 | the priest's life and the life of the Church and of society.
228 VI, 0,70 | accompanies the apostle's whole life and mission. It is a "follow
229 VI, 0,72 | burdens which are part of life: Thus he will be able to
230 VI, 0,72 | his desire to share our life: Thus, the Word who became "
231 VI, 0,72 | required by the new Gospel life to which he has been called
232 VI, 0,72 | ever richer communion of life and love and an ever broader
233 VI, 0,72 | likewise the power for that "life according to the Spirit"
234 VI, 0,72 | The priest's prayer life in particular needs to be
235 VI, 0,72 | through the priest's entire life, especially by a commitment
236 VI, 0,74 | which should accompany the life of the priest and lead him
237 VI, 0,74 | share in the history or life experience of this same
238 VI, 0,74 | have given up this way of life or are not following it
239 VI, 0,74 | formation. The gift of religious life, in the framework of the
240 VI, 0,74 | mutual cooperation, common life or fraternal dealings between
241 VI, 0,74 | who are active in parish life are very useful means to
242 VI, 0,74 | opportunities for the priestly life: "When it is accepted in
243 VI, 0,74 | caring for one's interior life. Here we are speaking of
244 VI, 0,75 | energy until the end of his life. Paul's witness should be
245 VI, 0,76 | and in All Conditions of Life~76. Permanent or ongoing
246 VI, 0,76 | be a part of the priest's life. In every phase and condition
247 VI, 0,76 | phase and condition of his life, at every level of responsibility
248 VI, 0,76 | variety of ages, conditions of life and duties one finds among
249 VI, 0,76 | delicate phase of their life and ministry, it is very
250 VI, 0,76 | Gospel, to their priestly life. And in those cases where
251 VI, 0,77 | thanks to their experience of life and apostolate, of becoming
252 VI, 0,78 | the complexity of human life in general and the life
253 VI, 0,78 | life in general and the life of the Christian communities
254 VI, 0,78 | exchange between the priest's life of faith and that of the
255 VI, 0,78 | relationship and sharing of life between the priest and the
256 VI, 0,78 | covers the whole ministry and life of the priest.~The truth
257 VI, 0,78 | of the faith to practical life by Christians involved in
258 VI, 0,79 | significant role to play. The life of ecclesial communities,
259 VI, 0,80 | intellectual and apostolic life. They open minds and hearts
260 VI, 0,81 | different forms of common life among priests, which have
261 VI, 0,81 | degrees of intensity, in the life of the Church: "Today, it
262 VI, 0,81 | activities, this common life of priests offers to all,
263 VI, 0,81 | themselves to incarnate in their life the evangelical counsels."( 231)
264 VI, 0,81 | not only for the spiritual life but also for the apostolic
265 VI, 0,81 | the apostolic and pastoral life.~Spiritual direction too
266 VI, 0,81 | find what their vocation in life is and follow it wherever
267 VI, 0,81 | effect at all stages of life, when in the light and affection
268 Conclu, 0,82 | the way, the truth and the life.~I appeal especially to
269 Conclu, 0,82 | bread of love, the bread of life (cf. Mk. 6:30ff.), and it
270 Conclu, 0,82 | safety, along the paths of life, to be found again if they
271 Conclu, 0,82 | of vocations and priestly life in the Church.~And so we
272 Conclu, 0,82 | at the beginning~of his life and mission,~you sought
273 Conclu, 0,82 | protect their growth,~in their life ministry accompany~your
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