The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres human practices

human practices

its sublime idealism: would not one willingly die to make that known and loved

I will show you the Word and the mysteries of the Word

but it shall accomplish that which I purpose

and of Branwen

The Priestly Life Ida Friederike Görres human practicesBy Ronald Knox God has no need for anything, proclaims St. Paul in the midst of the Areopagus. God has no need for mankind: He creates men and women out of pure generosity. The priesthood, remarks Monsignor Ronald Knox, is similarly the fruit of the Divine largesse: God could have done without [priests], but he preferred to have, once more, a kind of tool through which his action should express itself. Tools in his hand, that is what we priests were