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 | Year for Priests - 4/23/2009
Pope Benedict XVI has announced his intention to begin a Year for Priests, beginning June 19, 2009, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Without the ministry of priests, the Holy Father stressed, “there would be no Eucharist, no mission, not even the Church.” Pope Benedict emphasized that the mission of the priest “has its roots in a special way in a good formation, carried out in communion with unbroken ecclesial Tradition, without pausing or being tempted by discontinuity.”
The Zenit news agency said the Pope urged those present to discover the centrality of Jesus Christ who gives meaning and value to the ministerial priesthood.
The Holy Father went on to say, “As Church and as priests, we announce Jesus of Nazareth, Lord and Christ, crucified and risen, Sovereign of time and history, in the joyful certainty that this truth coincides with the deepest hopes of the human heart.”
http://zenit.org/article-25383?l=english
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