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Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. expounds in a disciplined manner upon the specific holiness of the priesthood and the supernatural fruitfulness of the priestly apostolate. Steeped in Sacred Scripture, St. Thomas Aquinas and other traditional Catholic sources, the author presents the traditional Catholic teaching on the priestly vocation and the means necessary for attaining the holiness required by this lofty state of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51091952664857,"sku":"SOPATNOOT","price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/715mv4tSN5L._SY466.jpg?v=1753531380"},{"product_id":"xray-of-the-priest-in-a-field","title":"X-ray of the Priest in a Field","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 178 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"To our lay brothers and sisters we also dedicate this book, to help them better understand, value and support their dear priests, the wounded and the beaming ones alike. In particular, we hope that seminarians and young men still discerning their calling might draw inspiration from this short presentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe beg for the leniency of the informed reader towards what is not a systematic treatise. Concision led us to reserve for a separate publication the essential topic of The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Priest - although Our Immaculate Lady is referred to in various chapters. Similarly, a thorough assessment of the importance of the Sacred Liturgy in the life and ministry of priests will have to be addressed separately, God willing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChapter One is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fourteen Stations of Priestly Apostasy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The slow demise of a fictional priest, after a recent film, is the occasion of detailing various precautions and securities which we priests would do well to apply. In Chapter Two, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOrdained a Priest in Dachau\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the beautiful figure of Blessed Karl Leisner proves that Christ can make priests strive in the worst possible surrounding. In a way, this is the dynamic antidote to the fateful failure assessed in Chapter One. Chapter Three is about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHandling the Right Body\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It explores the deep sacramental motive for priestly celibacy and for the manly fulfilment of the priest in his identification to Christ and his service to the Church. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Persona Christi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is our longest chapter (Chapter Four). It provides various angles to 'unpack' the well-known expression according to which priests act 'in the Person of Christ'. Chapter Five, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnfolding the Holy Shroud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, refers to the relic of Our Lord's Shroud to illustrate the priestly mission to teach revealed truth in fidelity and persuasiveness. In Chapter Six, we examine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePriestly Unity and Concelebration\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Our non-polemical approach exhorts us priests to identify always more precisely what we really mean to do and achieve at Holy Mass. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBuilding the Bride\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is our Chapter Seven. With recourse to exegesis, it shows the correspondence between the shaping of Eve and of the Church. Christ the Bridegroom empowers his priests to fulfil this spousal design. Our eighth and last chapter: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConsecrated to God, Body and Soul\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, sets the priesthood within the broader calling to consecrated life, including the religious one. It opens up the reflection and invites young readers in particular to enter the lists with confidence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe thank you for your interest, reader friend, and we commit this slender opus to our glorious models St John Vianney, St Padre Pio, St John Fisher, St John Henry Newman and all our heavenly intercessors, that it might please Our Lord and Our Lady, and might foster, however modestly, priestly sanctification.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51665109844249,"sku":"XRP","price":31.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/priestxray.jpg?v=1763768866"},{"product_id":"the-priest-as-beloved-son","title":"The Priest as Beloved Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 104 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this volume several seminary theologians explore the relationship between teaching theology and the essential ministry of spiritual direction as it is practiced in the seminary. 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In generating this series IPF hopes to serve the Bishops in their vision that spirituality is the core of seminary formation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52966815596825,"sku":"PABS","price":18.18,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/priestson.jpg?v=1786757613"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/collections\/priesthood.oembed","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}