Saturday, 12/18/17
If all goes well, by next
Saturday I'll be sixty-five years a priest, and I'd like to recount what of the
priesthood I have most treasured through those years. I'd say its been three covenants:
ours with Jesus, his with the Father, and we Christians between ourselves.
A covenant is the special
type of contract in which the parties exchange not money or other things of value,
but their own selves. As in marriage
where the priest asks, "Have you come here freely, without reservations to
give yourselves to each other in marriage?"
The covenant between Jesus
and us is consummated by Jesus giving himself to us.
His covenant with God was
brought about by Jesus saying, "Father, into your hands I commend my
spirit."
as priests we take part in three covenants
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