Priesthood: A Most Precious Gift

Picture courtesy of RCF

The priest...is something transcendent:
Through baptism he brings souls to birth,
through the sacrament of penance he purifies them,
through communion he gives them our Lord's body as He himself did at the Last supper, and
at the deaths he helps them to appear before the Beloved by giving them...
Their final forgiveness and their supreme strength...
Every single day of his life, he does what Jesus did during His three years of ministry --
he teaches men to know love and serve their good Master.

What a vocation!

--Charles de Foucauld

from a letter to a young friend preparing for ordination, 1897

For Christ's Priests
Servants of the Paraclete
13270 Maple Drive
St. Louis, MO 63127