Diocesan Priesthood
A Diocesan priest is called from a community of faith to serve a community of faith as leader of prayer, as spiritual guide, and as a servant leader. The Diocesan priest makes promises to the local bishop, and remains within that diocese. “Thou art a priest forever…
To live in the midst of the world with no desire for its pleasures; to be a member of every family, yet belonging to none; to share all sufferings; to penetrate allsecrets, to heal all wounds; to go daily from men to God to offer Him their homage and petitions ; to return from God to men to brong them His pardon and hope; to have a heart of fire for charity and a heart of bronze for chastity; to bless and to e blest forever. O God what a life, and it is yours, O Priest of Jesus Christ!’ –Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, OP
