Priestly Duties Quotes

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

I think all priests should be married.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the animal was then slain, and the blood was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."