By Fr F. ASTRUC.
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY No. 722a (1936).
The Christian's Life is a Mass.
"Tu es sacerdos in aeternum!" “You are a priest for ever!” What a joy was ours when, on the morning of our ordination, a consciousness of this divine reality dawned in our souls: "You are a priest for-ever!" Yes, we were happy then with a happiness we could not measure, a happiness which the passing years have served but to increase.
Many Christians in the world envy us our sacerdotal dignity. Well do I understand their holy jealousy. For their consolation, I would remind them of a truth which they do not perhaps sufficiently recognize — Every Christian has received a true participation in the priesthood of Jesus Christ; as a member of the mystical Body of Christ, he belongs, as St. Peter has authoritatively declared, to "a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood." St. Ambrose repeats the same truth to the people of Milan: "All the children of the Church are priests; in Baptism they receive the anointing that makes them participate in the Priesthood; the victim which they must offer God is wholly spiritual: this victim is themselves."read...