If any one will consider how great a thing it is for one, being a man, and compassed with flesh and blood, to be enabled to draw nigh to that blessed and pure nature, he will then clearly see what great honor the grace of the Spirit has vouchsafed to priests; since by their agency these rites are celebrated, and others nowise inferior to these both in respect of our dignity and our salvation. For they who inhabit the earth and make their abode there are entrusted with the administration of things which are in Heaven, and have received an authority which God has not given to angels or archangels. For it has not been said to them, “Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” — St. John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood 3:5
I WOULD NOT presume to pedantically lecture anyone about what the Christian priesthood is. But, the priesthood is what I do. It’s who I am. It’s what I live, however poorly. So I seek understanding and enlightenment, and strength and the help of Christ and his saints in my work. This page will serve to share whatever I collect along the way, and perhaps some of my own reflections on the priesthood.