Sacrament
I was looking this morning for some good websites that might give and overview of Holy Week for those who are new to it (and those who are not but had NO IDEA what a busy week this is in the Catholic Church) and I found this reflection from the Bishop of Limerick on last year's Chrism Mass:
There can be no celebration of the Eucharist without a priest. That is not because of any particular merit on the part of priests. It is because we have received the sacrament of priestly Ordination. Some years before he became Pope, the present Holy Father said in this context: “Sacrament means: I give what I myself cannot give; I do something that is not my work; I am on a mission and have become the bearer of that which another has committed to my charge”. RATZINGER, J., Called to Communion, Ignatius Press, 1996, p. 115.
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