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LUMEN GENTIUM , 1964 |
If my Daddy is a king,
I'm a prince/princess
Jesus, our Blood Brother,
is a king, a prophet and a priest
Because of Jesus,
everyone in his spiritual family
shares in his kingship, his prophetic life and his priesthood
If someone asks "what's your job? What work do you
do?"
every Christian can answer "I'm a priest"
"The ministerial priest, by the sacred power he enjoys,
teaches and rules the priestly people;
acting in the person of Christ, he makes present the Eucharistic sacrifice, and
offers it to God in the name of all the people.
But the faithful, in virtue of
their royal priesthood, join in the offering of the Eucharist. They likewise
exercise that priesthood in receiving the sacraments, in prayer and
thanksgiving, in the witness of a holy life, and by self-denial and active
charity"
Jesus, please help me be a good priest!