priests Holy Cross Father Joseph H. Carey, C.S.C., chaplain for the Alliance for Catholic Education, greets students at the University of Notre Dame.
Why I love being a priest I love being a priest for all the usual reasons, which are excellent, and I revere them, but there are some others.
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Father Charles Gordon, C.S.C.
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love being a priest because it is great to be something that has been around so long that it is practically hard-wired into the human brain. There have probably been people recognizable as priests about as long as there have been people recognizable as people. If a guy wandered out of the Pleistocene epoch and into a church and saw me
Father Charles Gordon, C.S.C. is an assistant professor of theology at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon.
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behind the altar he’d likely have a pretty good idea what I was and what I was doing. And if Origen of Alexandria or Theodore of Mopsuestia or Eleanor of Aquitaine or Shakespeare of Avon or Shakespeare’s tailor walked into the church, they would know exactly what I was and exactly what I was doing. Because a priest is such an ancient thing to be, an encounter with one touches very deep chords in the human mind and heart. Strains of longing, hope, and dread are sounded, as are any number of other feelings, some for which there are not yet names, and doubtless some for which
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