IVE PRIEST

Now I would like to treat an aspect that is certainly very important to what the Catholic priesthood does, and it is the fact that we are made ministers of the New Covenant. The depths of this doctrine are so great that the topic merits consideration from another point of view. It is Saint Paul […]

The Apostle Saint Paul teaches: He has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant (2 Cor 3:6). We already saw that the Catholic priest is a minister; let us now see what it means to be a minister of the New Covenant. The covenant expresses the relationship between God and His chosen people.

The effusion of Christ’s Blood expresses the very Mystery of His Passion, carried out precisely by the shedding of His blood. A. That Blood is Holy It is innocent blood (Mt 27:4), as Judas confessed. It is a precious blood (1 Pet 1:19) as Peter says, with which we have been rescued. B. That Blood

Here I will discuss the relationship between the priest’s actions in persona Christi and in persona Ecclesiae. Far from opposing each other, both aspects complement each other mutually; nonetheless, they must not be confused with each other. A. In Persona Christi There are many synonyms used to express the configuration with Christ that comes with

In our consideration of the Catholic priesthood, the fact that the priest acts in persona Christi is very important, but we must complement it with the notion that the priest also acts in persona Ecclesiae. For this, we need to ask ourselves three things: A. Existence of the Topic The expression in persona or ex

To the venerable memory of two legendsof the clergy of San Rafael, who sowed the Church here:Father Ernesto de Miguel–61 years of priesthood–and Father Basilio Winnyczuk–57 years of priesthood–To a living legend of the diocesan clergy of San Rafael,Father Victorino Ortega–58 years of exercising the priestly ministry. There is an essential difference between the priesthood

Jesus Christ is the envoy of the Father: as the Father has sent me, so I send you (Jn 20:21). Christ also has His own envoys that He sends. Christ is the High Priest (Heb 2:17), which supposes that there are others who participate in His priesthood. He is the teacher (Jn 13:13) par excellence,

Recently ordained priests–like all priests–are priests because the bishop–and all the members of the presbyterate–laid hands on them, thus leaving them “fit into the body of bishops,”[1] made into “successors of the Apostles in the priesthood” through the power to “consecrate, offer, and administer the Body and Blood of the Lord.”[2] The laying on of

The Most Holy Virgin Mary is the mother of the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, of whom the prophets announced: Like Melchizedek you are a priest forever (Ps 110:4). Why do these words of Sacred Scripture, Like Melchizedek you are a priest forever, (Ps 110:4) appear as a reference to Jesus Christ and, by prolongation,

A. Institution of the Diaconate in the Church The diaconate is a divine-apostolic institution, and not merely ecclesiastical; the order of the diaconate exists in the Church by the will of Jesus Christ, and deacons exist by apostolic institution, as the Second Vatican Council teaches: “The divinely established ecclesiastical ministry is exercised on different levels