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Exploring the Priestly Life.pptx
- 1. Exploring the PriestlyLife (a Life of Piety)
- 4. PRIESTLY LIFE (Lifeof Piety) •Gift = Grace (piety is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit) •A response to a “Specific Call” – “Are not our hearts burning within us?” (Luke 24:32) •Joyful witnessing to the Gospel •“Way of life” – there is no other way! (NO duplicity only natural) •“A Carrying of the Cross” = Constant self-transformation
- 5. GUIDING PRINCIPLES FORA PRIESTLY LIFE •Intimacy with God (in prayer and in deeds) •Maturity •Choosing to love and to serve every day
- 6. By virtue ofour baptism we all share in the priestly ministry of Christ: •In our personal and communal prayer •In showing our love and service for one another •In courageously proclaiming our faith •In joyfully living out our Christian identity REMEMBER!
- 7. “To be a priestis to let Jesus shine through me all the time.”
- 8. Prayer for priests (PopeBenedict XVI) Lord Jesus Christ, eternal High Priest, you offered yourself to the Father on the altar of the cross and through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit gave your priestly people a share in your redeeming sacrifice. Hear our prayer for the sanctification of our priests. Grant that all who are ordained to the ministerial priesthood may be ever more conformed to you, the Divine Master. May they preach the Gospel with pure heart and clear conscience. Let them be shepherds according to your own heart, single-minded in service to you and to the Church, and shining examples of a holy, simple, and joyful life. Through the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, your Mother and ours, draw all priests and the flocks entrusted to their care to the fullness of eternal life where you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.