Celebrate Priesthood: Priesthood is a revelation of mercy of God: A living body and blood of Eucharist: Living Body and blood of Christ to our times



Celebrate Priesthood because Priesthood is a revelation of  mercy of God. Priesthood presence is a heavenly gift and foundation of mother Church, which comes from the promise of God. Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, our Lord Jesus Christ promised that He will be with us always to the end of world. Priesthood and mother church Fulfill this promise. Priesthood apostolic tradition stems from Jesus Christ, followed by Apostle Peter and his successors to the end of the world and all times to come, the tradition, which guides not just Catholics, but also stand as a witness of living body and blood of Jesus Christ Himself, a living body of Eucharist.

The gift of priesthood to the world is a sign that proclaims the mercy of God.  I call it as a mercy of God, because none of us could deserve any of the sacrifices each one of the priests brings to the mother Church as ransom for our sins. I call it as a mercy, because they are the bread and wine laid on the sacred altar of  God for our times, with Jesus Christ they transform into the living body and blood of Jesus, as they partake in the call of Jesus Christ Himself. They are ransom victims, suffering Christs, and reflect Christ to the world. Thus, as Jesus descended emptying His throne as Son of God to the humble human baby and lived a earthly life as fully human and fully divine, while living a human life, Priest ascend from the status of human frailty to the heavenly wisdom in their call, in collaboration with the anointing of Holy Spirit and he lives a natural and supernatural life, while living in human body in the natural world.
Priesthood life is a sign of incarnated Holy Spirit's life in the world through the life of Mother Church, as it began from the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostle and Blessed Virgin Mary.
Priesthood lives, breathes, and serves through the Holy Spirit to guide the world in the wisdom of God, the Heavenly Father.

The gift of priesthood is a voice of God on earth for all creations. In God's wisdom, in His incarnation into the humanity, the salvation of world and all creations brought forth by the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. In incarnation, God realized the significant need of humanly presence for the protection and salvation of the human souls and all creation. Therefore  he promised His presence in the world for all creation, to the end of the world. In this avenue, He created priesthood, a Holy Spirit's incarnated resurrected mystical and natural body of Christ, as priesthood is an anointed body of Christ in Holy Spirit, who are called to live a fully human and fully heavenly life on earth.



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