]ames Bertrand
The Priest of Being Christ, the priest of creation, offering the world to his Father, calls other men to share his priesthood affectively, intelligently, totally.
There are priests who fear and even shun the emotional content in human experience. I wish to suggest to them that the affective life is essential to their priesthood, that it has its source in Christ's attitude toward creation. Indeed it is by identifying with this attitude of Christ that the priest achieves the perfection of his priesthood. Our position will become clear as we explore the priestly role of adoration-the very essence of the priesthood, it seems. As we shall see, God's affirmative presence in all creation is the initial call to this adoration. Christ is its pattern and ultimate perfection. His relation to eternal being and to created being is perfect adoration.
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EXISTENCE AND ADORATION
''The very physical world, created as it is for God's glory tends with a kind of blind love toward its author. "-Etienne Gilson Just "to be" is a prayer. Created being is a visible testimony to. Perfect Being; nonreflective being through its mere
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